TaBULA 3035. 
MECONOPSIS CONCINNA, Prain. 
PAPAVERACEAE. Tribus PAPAVEREAE, 
M. concinna, Prain in Kew Bull. 1915, p. 163; species e grege 
Bellarwm ad M. bellam accedens sed foliis lanceolatis nec ambitu ovatis 
minus divisis vel integris, rhizomate lobulato breviore, capsulaque 
elongata anguste cylindracea valvis altius fissis facillime sejungenda. 
Herba forsan biennis, inermis, glabra vel perparce setulosa. Rhizoma 
subtuberosum, 1-5-2 cm. longum, in segmenta 2-3 crassiora divisum, 
descendens. Folia omnia radicalia, lanceolata, saepius runcinata 
lobulis ovatis vel lineari-lanceolatis obtusis raro iterum divisis 3—7-jugis, 
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mi, glabri vel setis patentibus parce induti demum glabrescentes, 
1-flori. Sepala 2, late ovata, extra parce hirsuta vel glabra, 7-8 mm. 
longa. Petala 4, late oblonga, obtusa, apice crenulata vel denticulata, 
1-25 em. longa, 1 cm. lata, coerulea purpureo suffusa. Stamina o, 
circiter 32, 4-seriata, filamentis coeruleo-purpureis discretis glabris ; 
antherae cinerascentes. Ovarium e carpellis 3-4 compositum, anguste 
fusiforme, glabrum vel setis perpaucis obsitum ; stylus distinctus ; 
stigma clavatum lobis decurrentibus contiguis ; placentae nerviformes ; 
ovula plurima. Capsula anguste cylindracea, glabra, 2°5-2-75 em. 
longa, 4 mm. , ad medium usque valvarum dehiscens. Semina 
brunnea, incurva ; testa striata vix reticulata. 
Cumva: Yunnan; mountains in the north-east of the Yang-tse 
bend, 27°45’N, 3300-3600 m., Forrest, 10404, 10979; mountains of the 
Chung-tien Plateau, 27°30’N, 3000 m., Forrest, 12670; mountains 
west of Feng-kou, 27°40’N, 3000 m., Forrest, 12706 ; north-west 
flank of the Li-Kiang range, 27°30’N, 3000 m., Forrest, 12796. 
This neat little species was first met with by Mr. G. Forrest in 1913, 
and in both gatherings of that year, to which belong the two specimens 
figured, all the plants have lobulate leaves. In some of the specimens 
obtained by Mr. Forrest in 1914 a few of the lower leaves are entire 
