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TABULA 3036. 
_ MECONOPSIS VENUSTA, Prain. 
PAPAVERACEAE. ‘Tribus PAPAVEREAE. 
M. venusta, Prain in Kew Bull. 1915, p. 164; species e grege 
Bellarum ad M. concinnam et M. bellam proxime accedens cum illa 
quoad capsulam cum hac quoad rhizoma congruens. 
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elongatum, cylindraceum, 12-14 cm. longum, | cm. crassum, descendens. 
Folia omnia radicalia, ima vel rarissime omnia integra lamina oblongo- 
ovata, obtusa vel subacuta, basi truncata, 1-3-5 cm. longa, 0-8-1 cm. 
lata, cetera pinnatisecta, lobis 1-2-jugis late oblongis vel orbicularibus, 
obtusis, terminali 1 cm. lateralibus 3-5 mm. latis, supra saturate viridia, 
subtus intense glauca, utrinque glabra ; petiolus late alatus, 4-6 cm. 
longus, glaber, margine membranaceus. Scapi numerosi, 15-20 cm. longi, 
graciles, glabri vel setis patentibus parce induti demum glabrescentes, 
l-flori. Sepala 2, late ovata, extra glabra, 1:25 cm. longa. Petala 4, 
suborbicularia, obtusa, margine integra vel minutissime undulata, 
2-25 cm. longa ac lata, intense rubro-purpurea. Stamina ©, circiter 64, 
4-seriata, filamentis intense rubro-purpureis gracillimis discretis glabris ; 
antherae aurantiacae. Ovarium e carpellis 4 compositum, anguste 
fusiforme, setis patentibus densius indutum ; stylus distinctus ; stigma 
clavatum lobis decurrentibus contiguis ; placentae nerviformes ; ovula 
plurima. Capsula anguste cylindracea, setis rigidis patentibus vestita, 
3-5-4 cm. longa, 5 mm. lata, vix per trientem summum ehiscens. 
Semina cinnamomea, incurva ; testa striata vix reticulata. 
Cuiva: Yunnan; mountains in the north-east of the Yang-tse 
bend, 27°45’N, 3300 m., Forrest, 10408, 11008; mountains of the 
Chung-tien Plateau, 27°30’N, 3300-3600 m., Forrest, 12685, 12686, 
12993. 
The charming Meconopsis here figured is a member of the group 
Bellae in the section Eumeconopsis, which was first met with by Mr. 
G. Forrest in 1913 and was obtained by him again in the followingsyear. 
The lowest 1 ppear to be always entire andi of the specimens 
collected in 1914 this is true of all the leaves. In its stout, long root- 
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