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fceautj, it is to be Loped that its re-iutroduetion may lead to its 

 penuanent establishment in our gardens. Mr. Earrer remarks 

 that on the occasion of a previous introduction to cultivation, 

 iM. quintu2jhnervia V7 as confused witli M. simplici folia. This con- 

 fiision did not take i^lace when tiie species was first introduced by 

 Przewalski forty years ago. Perhaps, however, Mr. Farrer may 

 refer to ^ome subsequent introduction, the record of whicli has 

 escaped Dr. Fedde and the writer. 



An inadvertent modification of Dr. Hegel's original specific 

 name, in a paper by Professor Diels published in 1901, ] 

 found its way into the F fianz ear eich , and tLe adoption of this 

 erroneous orthography in the Gardeners' Chronicle may, unless 

 timely attention be paid to it, give rise to yet another mis- 

 ^ppreliension. 



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34. Meconopsis punicea, Maxim.: Garden, 1905, vol. xlvii. 



p: 318 cum icon; Eiebe in Gartenw. 1906, pp. 273, 274; Terlcle, 

 Lc, p. 265, %. 35 H (1909); Mottet in Eev. Hort. 1912, p. 205; 

 "Wilson, AVestein Cliina, vol. i. i)p, 138, 181 et vol. ii. p. 9 (1913) ; 

 Tarrer in Gard. Cliron. 1915, vol. Ivii. p, 1. 



Wlien writing to Kew from Chen-t'u on October 28tli, 1908, 

 tlie late Mr. J. W. Brooke enclosed, along with a photograpli of 

 a plant of M. quintiiplinervia^ Regel, in situ on a hillside in the 

 Hung-chiao Pass, a second photograph showing a number of 

 plants of different species of Meconopsis brought together from 



various localities on the Balano: Rann-e.* One of these is M. 



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punicea^ Maxim., which is represented by three oxnmjdes. The 

 prevalence of this species in the province of Kansu has more 

 recently been confirmed by Mr. Farrer. Although Mr. Brooke 

 states that there are six different species in his group, the writer 

 has only been able to distinguish three. These are 3/. punicea^ 

 Maxim., whicli is readily recognisable ; ^1/, quinluplincrvia, 

 Regel, also readily identifiable because of the accomjianying 

 photograph of a single plant, the latter being verified by a 

 corresponding specimen; and i)/. integrifolia, Franch. In this 

 instance, however, the photograph reveals a form of M. integri' 

 folia that has not been encountered by other travellers; in place 

 of the subumbellate cyme with large leafy bracts subtending the 

 pedicels we have in this cnse a raceme-like cyme of flowers as in 

 the unusual condition of M. Ilenrici, Bur. & Franch.. obtained 

 by Mr. E. H. Wilson at Pan-Ian-shan, in Western Szechuan, 

 where that traveller also found M. punicea growing in abxm- 

 dance. If there be other species in the group it is not possible 

 lo discriminnte them. There are at Kew specimens or drnwinjjs 

 of three other Kansu species, M, Pratti, M. Icpida and M. 

 psilonomrnn, the first known from specimens collected by Mr. 

 Purdora, the others from specimens communicated to Professor 

 Bavlev Balfour by Mr. Farrer. In addition to the species men- 



♦This interesting: ph^tofifraph was puhli>!hed in lf>ll as Sotns roppie 

 near the snow-line in Fergusan : Adventure, Sport and Travel on t* e Tibetai 

 Steppes, p. 174- It is jiossible that by 'six species* Mr. Brooke really 

 xneant * six plants*; the pbo'oirrfiph shows three 'of Af. purirefi, two of 

 M'atiintvvlinen:ia and one of a raceznifurm condition of Jf- iutegrifolia. 



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