165 



«o far as to sug-gest a cuinparison with Caihcartia. The stout root- 

 stock of this species, with its collar of the remains of ] eaves of 

 an earlier sen son surrounding the crown of fresh leaves at their 

 base, is so like that of M. hellq. os to sn,ggost that M. xenvsta 

 IS also poljcarpic. The three gatherings cited last were obtained 

 by Mr. Forrest in 1914. 



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28. Meconopsis Delavayi, Eranch. : Tedde, I.e., p. 261 (1909);. 



JForrest in Gard. Chron, 1911, vol. 1. p. 51, Hg. 24; Mottet in 

 Rev. Hort. 1912, p. 205; Card, Chron. 1913, vol. liii. p. 357; 

 <3ard- Mag. 1913, p. 394; Garden, 1913, p. 275 cum icon.; Kew 

 Bull, 1914, app. 3, p. 72. Rhizonfa hand repens sed descendena. 



3-4"5 dm. longum^ 1"5 cm. crassum, pluriceps. Scapus soli- 

 tarius, rarissime casu scapi 2, fructiger elongatus, ad 5-6 dm. 

 altiis. Fetala 4, raro 5. Capsula (anno 1906 matura ignota) 

 ^nguste cyliudracea, erecta, 5-7-5 cm. loiiga, nonnunquam {ea 



Forrest) 15 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata. 



South- West China : Yimnan ; eastern flank of tlie Ll-kiaug 

 Range, Lat. 27° 12' N, 10,000-14,000 ft., Delavay; Forrest 



2212, 10128. 



The nearest alliance of tliis species lias been somewliat doubtful. 

 The flowers in some of the specimens originally collected by 

 Delavay have 6-7 petals, and as a result we have here a repetition 

 ■of the jHoblem presented by the case of M. Jiorridula, as to which 



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normal condition. Treating the two cases as parallel the writer 

 in 1896 included M. Delavayi in the Prlmnlinae where it is usual 

 to find more than 4 petals in the flowers. Now that ample suites 

 of specimens have been communicated by Forrest from the locals 

 classicus of the species, it is clear that the cases are not parallel ; 

 in M. Delavayi the petals are normally 4 or occasionally 5, but 

 the cases with 6-7 petals are abnormal. The species is therefore 

 better placed in the group Bellae, *though within that group it 

 stands somewhat apart in having, as a rule, a solitary scape to 

 leach crown, and in having entire leaves. This last feature is not, 

 however, quite unique, for the leaves both in M. venusta Q.iid. in 

 M. concinna may at times be entire us in M. Delavayi. The 

 species has been introduced to European gardens tli rough the 

 Boyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, by seeds collected by Mr. 



Bot, vol. XX. p. 352 (sect.); 



Forrest. 



§§ POLVCHAETIA, Prain in 

 Fedde, I.e., p. 262 (subgen.). 



8. Gkandes, Prain, I.e., p. 352; Fedde, I.e., p. 262 (sect.). 



Meconopsis integrifolia, Franch.: E. II. Wils. in 

 1905. vol. xxxvii. p. 291, fig. 121; Tallack, I.e., p 



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t) 32; Garden, lyua, vol. xivii. p. ^ou cum iluu., x^i. »,.^.^.j« 

 In Gartenw. 1905, vol. ix. p. 534 cum icon. coL ; Gard Album, 

 1906 t 5; Veitch, Novelties 1907, p. 17; Rev. Hort. Belg 190<, 

 T. 180- Trib. Hortic. 1908, tt. 90, 91; Fedde, I.e. p. 262, fig. 



