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XXIII.—A NEW MECONOPSIS FROM YUNNAN. 
D. Prain. 
In an interesting letter to Kew, dated 30th October, 1917, 
Mr. George Forrest has enclosed for identification two specimens 
of Meconopsis, representing the only two species found during" 
the season 1917, that are novelties to him 
a form of that species.’’ As neither flowers nor leaves are 
present it is not possible yet to identify the plant. The material 
sent shows that the species is a member of the group Aculeatae 
(K.B. 1915, p. 144). The capsules show, however, that it is not 
M. aculeata, Royle, M. latifolia, Prain, or M. sinuata, Prain, 
and that it is neither M/. horridula, Hook. f. & Thoms., nor 
M. rudis, Prain. The capsules are like those of M, Prattu, 
Prain, but this latter species has not so far been collected in the 
region to which M. speciosa, Prain, appears to be confined; com- 
parison with the capsules of Mf. speciosa is impossible, as the ripe 
fruits of that species are not yet known. 
It may be remarked inci dentally that in the letter under notice, 
Mr. Forrest announces the rediscovery of a Meconopsis (bis _n. 
13169) first met with by him in 1914. The specimens of that 
Ho 
Shan, which is a spur of the Bei-ma Shan, both being sent 
as seen on the Bei-ma Shan differs materially from the type a 
lants are taller, flowers larger, 
rare almost apical, seldom branched from mid-stem, 
Bei-ma Shan plant. The old problem, with me to the differ- 
ences between the true M. integrifolia, Franc 
distinct species, which in externals so closely 1 
M. integrifolia, first raised from seed secured by Captain Koslov 
in Kham, will suggest itself to those interested, as Mr. Forrest 
is, in this genus. Among the species of which seeds have been 
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