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was collected in that countij; the name of the species which 

 includes Wallich n. 8121 should be the name applied to a 

 plant of that gathering in 1824 rather than the name first given 

 to it in 1872, more especially since that latter name was not 

 applied to any Meconopsis until 1855. The circumstance that 

 the Petrograd herbarium includes a specimen issued by Wallich 

 as n. 8121 which cannot be distinguished from specimens of 

 Wallich n. 8124 does not affect the relationship which the 

 examples of these two gatherings in the Wallichian Herbarium 

 itself bear to each other. This relationship raay be most readily 

 realised from the photograph of these which accompanies this 

 paper, and an examination of that photograph may enable 

 students of this genus to decide whether M, naimulensis and 

 rohusta be conspecific or not. 



.^.¥^?. ^^"^ certain difficulties connected with the identification 



M 



Wallich n. 8124. In the former 



flower, the leaves, besides being beset with long barbellate setae, 

 have, at least on the upper surface, a fine pubescence as well. 

 In the fruiting specimens this fine pubescence has disappeared 

 from the leaves, but the barbellate setae still persist. In the 

 latter when m flower, the leaves have the same coverino- of lon^ 

 barbellate hairs, but have no fine jmbescence in addition; in 

 Iruit the barbellate setae almost entirely disappear, and the 

 leaves are very nearly glabrous. The difference between the two 

 IS greater as regards the capsule, which in 



Wallich 



Wallich 



< , or more 



otten 8 valves. In both plants the ovary is at first adpressed- 

 setose, but the setae of the fully developed capsule in the former 

 become rigidly patent and persist— even in the oldest capsules 

 seen the bases of the setae remain and stand out at rif^lit ano-les 

 to the surface of the valves ; in the latter most of the'^setae dis- 

 appear fjom tl.e ripe capsule, and the few that persist remain 

 adpressed to the surface of the valves. The style in the Nepalese 



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plant, n. 8124, and m this respect, as well as in the smaller 

 Bumber of valves beset with persistent patently-spreading setae. 



Walllcli 



om 



Tq^\ ■ '\^"^''^** y^^^- f^sco-pnrpurea from Eastern Nepal 

 ana t-ikkim As there is no speci«s of Meconopsis so far known 

 in which the petals are sometimes yellow and sometimes red, 

 It follows that if we could ascertain the colour of the petals 



LVl J-'F'l'^! 'i'r'SS^,^^,^^ Candolle in 1824 as M. napavlensis 

 and distributed by Wallich in 18-30 as his n. 8121, we should be 

 in a position to pronounce a final verdict on the question as to 



ihnfXl t U'""! ""'^^ rg,r^ *° '^'' Pl«^*' ^^^^^' a« a^ after- 

 tivp V ri ffi Hooker and Thomson in 1872 and more authorita- 

 tnely reaffirmed m the Pflanzenreich in 1909, be tenable. 



h.vP i'n r'^f -^f "^^ ^'7' "^^ ^^r^^ statement on this point, and 

 tr 1^ .'^^''''} ourselves with circumstantial evidence. We 

 know that m August, 1821, Wallich nb+.;...1 +i J', ll^.^ J 



moun 



