ITT 



district of Jongn. More interesting still is the proof of its 

 presence _m_ China. This we owe to 3Ir. E. H. Wilson, who. 

 during his journey of 1908, found in Western Szechuan the red- 

 flowered form of the Sikkim Blue Poppy of gardens ; the ordinary 

 blue-fiowered form he had already met with in the same proviup^ 



in 1904. 



11. Chelidootfoljae, Fram, I.e., p. 364; Tedde, I.e., p. 270 



(sect.). 



Meconop 



et Franch. : Kew Bull 

 ag. 34 c (1909) ; Wilson 



Hort 



gh 



vol. Ixvi. p. 149; Ball in Gard. Chron. 1914, vol. Iv. p. 248. 



This species has been introduced into European gardjens throii 

 the Hoyal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin; it is perennial. 



43. Meconopsis Oliveriana, Franch. et Prain : Fedde, I.c , 

 p. 270 (1909). 



This species has not yet been introduced to cultivation. 



D, Prain. 



Explanation oi Plates. 



J. 



Fig. 1. 



hofcograph of specimen in Wallichian type herbarium. i.ssned by 

 Wallich in 1830 as n. 8121 " Meconopsis e Gossain Than." This 

 specimen belongs to the same gathering as the original specimen 

 of Meconopsis napaulensis, DC., published in IS^. 



Fig. 2. 



Wallichi 



published in 1865. 



Hook 



II. 



Fig. 1. Photoeraijh of specimen in Wallichian type herbarium, issued by 



Woifi.v, ;„ iQon „„ _ oioo "Meconopsis B Napalia." This 



Fig. 2. 



Wal 



belongs to the same gathering as the originaf specimen of 

 Fapave'r paniculafum, D. Don [Meconopsis napaulensis, TTalp. 

 non DC. : M. paniculata, Prain], published in 1825. 



'hotograph of specimen in the Prodromus herbarium, sent by 

 Wallich to De Uandolle, which is the type of Meconopsis napau- 

 lensis, DC, published in 1824. 



XVIIL- CORNUS NUTTALLII AND ITS ALLIES. 



W. J. Bean. 



(With Plates. 



There 



flowers being closely packed m a head, or capitulum, subtended 

 by a showy involucre of four or more bracts. Four species 

 belongino- to this group are in cultivation : —O. Nuttallii, C. 

 fiorida, C. Kousa and C. capitata: an excellent photograph of 

 C Nuttallii in full flower, lately received at Kew, is now repro- 

 duced. This, and the fact that several plants o 



years 



flowered well, afford the opportunity for a few notes on this 



D 



