170 



X ■ 



tioned, the same province contains tlie locus classicus of tlie 

 original type of M. racemosa, Maxim. 



9. TorquatIe, Prain, I.e., p. 355 j Fedde, I.e., p. 265 (sect.). 



35._ Meconopsis torquafa, Praln : Fedde, I.e., p. 2G5 (1909). 



riiis species tas not been collected since 1904. 



36. Meconopsis discigera, Prain : Kew Bull. 1907,* apn. 3, 

 p. j2; ledde. I.e., p. 26G. ' ii ' 



This fine species has been introduced to cultivation by the 

 Koyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. It has been collected a^in 

 m Sikkim on Guch-la, 16,000 it., Rovioo 1036, on the sedond 

 ocpasion m flower. The sepals are ovate, hirsute externally, 

 1 m. long, j m across; the petals are yellow, wide ovate, 2 in; 

 long, li m. wide. The plant is polycarpic! 



10. RoBusTAE, Prain, I.e., p. 357; Fedde, I.e., p. 267 (sect.). , 



37. Meconopsis superba, King: Fedde, I.e., p. 267 (1009). 



ic«r-^ Ti,"!' ^'^^ "^""^ ^'^^^ ^^* ^'^^^ si^^« it ^^-«s fii-'^t collected in 

 lo54 m Bhutan. 



38. Meconopsis paniculata, Prain: Fedde, I.e., p. 267, figs. 



p. Ul (1911); Mottet in Ecv. Hort. 1912, p. 204; Smith in Rec. 

 Bot. burv. India, vol. iv. p. 347 (1913). 



• \ ^^^ f i^-^^^^y. l>f n explained that the condition recog- 

 nisable as M j^amculata proper, with compound cymules in the 

 axils of the leafy bracts, is hardly separable as a variety from the 

 form recognised m 1896 as var. data, in which the cymules are 

 aZ?^' m^' \j;*^Srettable error the differential character which 

 Wn P'J "" It """'^'^^^ ^''P'''"^^ pamculatum, D. Don, has 



Bot vol.? *^\?Sr^^S "^ H ^^^^^ published in 1906 (Ann. 

 liot. vol. sx. p. 358) m place of the c^^"'-- - ' • ^ "^ - 



tmguishes var. elata from Don's orio- 



Samctef^'fln' """^ ^'''^ ""'^l''^ ^^ *^^" Pfi-nzenrcirL. For the 

 tvDi» wbiohr'-''' '^-"^^J ^"f" paniculatas dispositi caeterum 

 stCtituTe'dte'ffSn?:-^ ^^^^^^ ^^ Botany,^.., should be 



Var. data, Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. Ixiv pars 2, 



i.MnonZZ:^. T ■' ''"f^^"''' dispositi, ^p^diceilisaepfussolt 



elvK wT if f ' V^}^^\e^, sub anthesi foliis floralibus hnud 



^ei MX iongioribus, fructio-er plnnrrot: .^i.^.^^.^x ^ • ^ x:-„ 



erecti. ' " ""^""^ c^^un^ 



^atim 



o 



i^btTlT^Lf if!r«l°l\P«« ''- i"^'-*^^. 'tat it i. n.or» 



apart. 



forms varietally* 



/I;f.t'/I ' ^.L"!^_'" *.«. ^P'^^''*' ''■iich constitute tile irroup 



group 

 and 



to be rare VvPnT ^^^ mernbcrs of the group Bcllae, and 



species whicrotifri.T^'" ^^^^ the normally 4-petLlous 



h 



multiplication but of reduction in 



