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ennial. It proved of more vigorous growth than either parent 



until 1914; during the winter of 1914-15 it unfortunately 

 perished- 



30. Meconopsis pseudointegrifolia, Prain : Kew Bull. 1907, 



app. 3, p. 72; i^edde. I.e., p. 263 (1909). M. integrifolia, Bulley 

 m Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xsxvii. p. 200, 325 partim; Masters, 

 Lc. 1900, vol. xxxix. p. 313; anou. I.e. 1911, vol. 1. p. 358 

 partim : nee Franch. 



South-eastern Tibet : Kham ; in the Ea-chu valley, near the 

 sources of the Mekong, Lat. 29^ 30^ N., Lon. 97^ 30^ E„ 11,000- 

 12,000 ft., Koslov. 



South-west Chi^'a: Yunnan; Chung-tien Plateau, Lat. 27^ 

 30' N, Forrest 12,522; Mekong-Salwin Divide, Lat. 28^ 10' N, 

 13,000 ft., Forrest 13,311; without precise locality, Monheig. 



As has been pointed out in the Pfianzenreich this species was 

 erroneously stated in 1906 to be from South-western instead of 

 South-eastern Tibet. In the Gardeners' Chronicle for 1911, Lc. 

 the view was once more expressed that this may be only q form of 

 M. integrifolia. The species has, however, been met with again 

 by Pere Monbeig in South-western China, and his material indi- 

 cates that the suggestion alluded to is untenable. Monbeig's 

 plant, however, shows that the plant as grown in this country was 

 not ''in character''; in the wild state the flowers are in 5-7- 

 flowered umbelliform cymes in the axils of a fascicle of leafy 

 bracts, just as in M. integrifolia and in M. gra^idis. Mr. 

 Forrest's specimens of 1914 in flower {Forrest n. 12522), and in 

 fruit {Forrest n. 13311), are exactly like Pere Monbeig's plant. 



31. Meconopsis grandis, Prain : Bulley in Gard. Chron. 1905, 

 vol. xxxvii. p. 397; Fedde, I.e. p. 263, fig. 35 d (1909); Mottet 

 in Rev. Hort. 1912, p. 205. 



32. Meconopsis simplicifolia, Walp. : Fedde, I.e., p, 263, fig. 

 35 r (1909); Bot. Mag. t. 8364 (1910); Smith & Cave, Rec. 

 Bot. Surv. India, vol. iv. p. 171 (1911); Mottet in Rev. Hort. 

 1912, p. 203; Smith in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. vol. iv. p. 348 (1913). 

 Polychaetia scapigerUy Wall. Cat. sub 8125 (1830). 



This sj^ecies has been raised in the Roj^al Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, from seeds collected by Captain F. M. Bailey, on Pen-la, 

 Lon. 920 15' e, Lat. 27^ 57' N, at 17,000 ft,, on the Subansiri- 



\R I>ivide. in September, 1913* It has also been raised at 



Man 



Edinburgh from seeds received by Professor Balfour from the 

 Tibeto- Yunnan frontier. The plants floAvered in the Alpine col- 

 lection there in October, 1911, and' agreed in every detail with 

 the specimens already known from Nepal, Sikkim, Chumbi and 

 the Tibetan districts of Khamba and Phari. The considerable 

 extension of its area towards the east indicated by these recent 

 specimens suggests that M. simplicifolia, like M. horridula, may 

 be essentially a Tibetan plant, and that its presence on the southern 

 aspect of the Himalaya from Nepal to Chumbi may be due to 

 overflow across the higli passes. The authority for tlie name now 

 used for this species has, in the Pfianzenreich, been inadvertently 

 riftribnted to Mr. G. Don, who treated it as a Stylophorum. 



