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solitary flowers. In one of Maire's specimens tlie scapes are 

 15-18 in, high. 



An imperiect specimen collected near the head-waters of 

 the Eong-chu in South-Eastern Tibet, on Yerma-la (Nyima-la), 

 15,000 ft., 940 45' W, 290 37' N, by Captain F. M. Bailey, 

 in flower on 12 July, 1913, comes nearest to this species. 

 The leaves are similar in shape, lobulation and indumentum, but 

 are somewhat thinner; the indumentum of the scapes is the 

 isame, and the ovaries agree with those of M, impedita. The 

 filaments, however, are considerably shorter. Tor the moment it 

 is best treated as a variety of A£. impedita: — 



Var. Morsheadii, Prain; forma M. impcditam typicam in 

 memoriam reducena sed floribus majoribus petalis pallidiufi 

 coeruleis filamentis parum brevioribus. 



Tibet: Eastern Kongbo; Verma-la, 15,000 ft,, Bailey 9. 



25. Meconopsis bella, Prain; Tedde, I.e., p. 261, fig. 35j 

 (1909); Mottet in Eev. Hort. 1912, p. 205; Smith in Eec. Bot. 

 Surv. India, vol. iv., p. 348 (1913). 



This species has been met with again in Western Sikkim at 

 Megu, 14,000 ft. [Romoo 834, 6443), and on a later occasion in 

 Eastern Sikkim, at Tosa, Chakung Chu, 14,000-15,000 ft., 

 usunlly in the moist crevieces of cliffs facing north, Smith 3926, 



4084; RibuUQd. 



r 



26. Meconopsis concinna, Prain; spocies e grege Bellarum 



ad M. bdlam ipsam accedens sed foliis lanceolatis nee nmbitu 

 ovatis minus divisis vel integris, rhizomate^ breviore lobulnto, 

 capsulaque elongata angnste cylindracea valvis altius fissis facil- 



lime distiuguenda. 



IJerha forsan biennis, inermis. Rhizoma subtuberosiira, 

 1-5-2 cm. longum, in segmenta 2-3 crassiora divisum,^ descen- 

 dens. Folia omnia radicalia, lanceolata, runcinata lobulis ovatis 

 vel lineari-lanceolatis obtusis raro iterum divisis 3-7-jugis, 

 nonnunquam aliquot vel omnia Integra, supra saturate 

 Tiridia, subtus glaucescentia, utrinque glabra, 1-5-2 cm. longa, 

 5 mm. lata ; petiolus glaber, 1-5-2 cm. longus. Scapi numerosi, 

 5-15 cm. longi, gracillimi, glabri vel setis patentibus parce 

 induti deraum glabrescentes, 1-flori. Sepala 2, late ovata, extra 

 •p^Tce hirsuta vel glabra, 7-8 mm. longa. Petaln 4, Inte oblonga, 

 obtusa, apice crenulata vel denticulata, 1;25 cm, longa, 1 cm. 

 lata, coerulea purpureo suffusa. Stamiria oo, circiter 32, 

 4-seriata, filamentis coeruleo-purpureis discretis glabris; 

 antherae cinernscente?. Orarivw. e carpellis 4 compositum, anguste 

 fusiforrae, glabrum vel setis perpaucis obsitura ; stylus distincius; 

 stigma clavatum lobis decurrentibus contiguis; placentae nervi- 

 former: ovula plurima. Capsvla anguste cylindracea, glabra, 

 2-5-2-T5 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, ad medium usque valvarum 

 dehiscens. Semina brunnea, incurva ; testa striata vix 



reticulata. 



We 



of 



the Y->n--tse bend, L-^t. 270 45' N. 13.000-14.000 ft., in flower 



Sentemb 



C 2 



