176 



Var. typica; flores coerulei. " 



Himalaya: Sikkim; Tongloo, 10,000 ft., Hooker 42; Kurz 



m3; Clarke 21 d22: Pliullaloong, 10,000 ft., Clarke 13,460, 



Chumbi; Sliam-clien, King's Collectors. Eliutan; Dicliu Valley, 

 Cum 



imns. 



Indo-China : Upper Burma ; without precise locality, Ward 



1907. 



Western China: Western Szecliuan; 12,000 ft., Wilson 

 31()5. 



This is the familiar Blue Poppj of Sikkim, the occurrence of 

 which in China was reported bj Wilson in 1904 {Wihon n. 

 3165). More recently it has been met with in Upper Burma by 

 Ward, whose specimens were collected in 1914 {Ward n. 1907). 

 The experience of the past ten years has definitely shown that it 

 is not possible to treat this plant as specifically distinct from the 

 red-flowered plant described and figured by Sir J. D. Hooker in 

 1884 as M. Wallichii, Tar. fusco-purpurea, Ilook. f.,* which in 

 1896, and agnin in 1906, was identified by the writer with M. 

 napaulensis,^ DC; the two forms have been found to originate 

 from seed ripened on the same plant, and occasionally both red 

 or purple, flowers and blue flowers may occur on the snme 

 individual. At the same time the reduction of M. Wallicliiiy 

 Hook., to -¥. napnulensis, DC, is still undesirable, owing to the 

 re-acceptance in the PflanzenreicJi of the view taken in 1872 in 

 the Flora of British India with rei^ard to the identity of Wallich 

 n. 8121, which is a co-type of M. napavlensis, DC. In trans- 

 ferring the plant which actually is M. napaulensis, DC, to M. 

 Tohvsfa, Hook. f. & Thorns., the Ffinnzenreicli has nevertheless 

 retained the name M. napaulensis to designate M. Wallichii, var. 

 fim:o-pnrpurea. Hook. f. This usage cannot be adopted 

 owing to the fact that the plant which forms the bnsis of M. 

 napaulensis has bf en transferred by Dr. Fedde to another species, 

 but, the action having been taken, it seem preferable for the- 

 presont to maintain Hooker's variety, and thus to avoid further 

 confusion in the synonymy of this red-flowered form. 



Var. fusco=purpurea, Hook, f . Bot. Mag. t. 6760 (1884) ; flores 



rubro-fusci vel fusco-purpurei. — M. naj^aulensi.^, Prain in Journ. 



As. Soc. Beng., vol. Ixiv. pars. 2, p. 317 (1890), et in Ann. Bot. 



vol. XX. J). 359 (1906), quoad syn. Hook f. tantum ; Fedde, I.e., 



p. 269, fig. 35 A (capsula juvenilis) 1909; Mottet in Rev. Hort. 



1912, p. 204; Smith in Rec. Bot. Surv. India, vol. iv. p. 348 

 (1913). ^ 



HniALAYA: Eastern Nepal; Thari, King's Collectors. Western 

 Sikkim; Jongri, Tiamphung, King's Collectors; Eastern Sikkim; 

 Chakung Chu, 11,000 12,000 ft., Smith 3962; Ilihu 4465. 



Westkbn China: Western Szechuan; south-east of Mupine, 

 11,000-13 000_ ft., Wilson 1152. 



Since 1906 it has been found that this variety occurs in Eastern 

 Sikkim as well as in Eastern Nepal and in the Western Sikkim 



iftfAc* ^70'^eouc:1v cited by tlio wHtpr as rvhro-fusra in 1896 and aga-n in 

 ISUb. This error has been corrected in the Pflanzenreich. 



