118 VTII. PAPAVERACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Arffemone. 



By roadsides and in fields throughout India. 



A robust herb, sometimes half-woody below, 2-4 ft., with spreading branches. 

 Leaves 3-7 in. Flowers 1-3 in. diam. Sepals horned at the top. Capsule f-1^ in. 

 long, terete, usually bristly, elliptic or oblong. 



2. MECONOPSIS, Viguier. 



Perennial herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers solitary 

 or racemed, large, blue yellow or purple. &i"rfa -2. Pt-fti/s 4. On try 

 1-celled ; style distinct, stigmatic lobes radiating on its clubbed extremity. 

 Cdjixnle ovoid or elongate, with short valves below the persistent >tyle. 

 Seeds many, small, rugose. DISTRIB. Mountains of the N. hemisphere ; 

 species about 10. 



* Scapes radical, \-flowered. 



1. IK. simplicifolia, //. /. <(- T. 77. Tn<J. 252 ; softly hairy, leaves lan- 

 ceolate entire or few-toothed. 7/W.-./. ///. Jinn. 1*1. t. b. 1'apaver sinipli- 

 cifoliuin, Don Proclr. 190 ; Wull. Got. 8126. 



SUBAI.PINE HIMALAYA, Nipal, WaH'uJi ; Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 ft., H.f. 



Root stout, fusiform; neck villous. Lcace* many, 2-3 in., tapering into a petiole. 

 Scapes stout, clothed with deflexed hairs. Floicers 2-3 in. diam., Miic-purple. & jx'lt 

 hispid. Ovary cylindric; style % in., Btigmas 5-8. Capsule 2 in., linear-oblong, covered 

 with deciduous hairs. 



2. M. horridula, //./. <: T. Fl. hid. 252 ; prickly, leaves lanceolate 

 subentire. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 14-17,000 ft., 77. /. 



Stem 0, or short. Leaves 3-5 in., obtuse or acute. Scapes 4-8 in., many, rigid, 

 erect, densely prickly. Flowers K IB. diam., bine-purple. /vyu//s bristly. ' 

 ^-1 in., prickly, obovatr or olilong : style \ in., stigma conical. l > ..s>ibly a st;f 

 aculata. In abnormal flowt-rs the petal- :imcs many sind linear. 



** Stems leafy. Flowers racemed or panic!" 1. 



3. M. aculeata, l!n>ih III. CT, t. 15 ; ]>rickly, leaves irregularly pinna- 

 tifid, flowers blue-])urpK', capsuli-s short prickly and bristly, ll 1 '"//. ('a'.. 

 8122; 77. /. & T. Fl. l,l. 263 j llnnk. JJ,,t. M.KJ. t. r>45(j. M. Gul. Walde- 

 mani, Kiotmck. ll< in. /V. ]\'<il<l. t. 36. 



V'i STK.IIN HIMALAYA, frxtm Kashmir to Kumaon ; alt. 11-15,000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., smooth, except the short scattered prickles. leaves 4-8 in., oblong or 

 lanceolate, long-petioled ; cauline sessile. Flowers 2-3 in. diam.; pc<l ; 

 rick ly in fruit. (Juptule 4~i i n -i densely prickly, obconic-obovate or oblong; style 

 alf as long. 



4. m. robusta, H.f. A- T. Fl. Tml. 253 glaucous, sparsely hairy, leaves 

 pinnatitid, ca]>sule linear-oblong 7-8-valvea clothed with spreading bristles. 

 Wall. Cat. 8121, 8124. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 8-10,000 ft. ; from Nipal, Wallich, to Kumaon. 



Stem 4-6 ft. Leaves 8-14 in., pinnate, lobes pinnatilid. loog-petioled, cauline sessile. 

 Flowers 2-3 in. diam., colour unknown, in inerftoemoee panicles; pedicels 34 in., 

 densely clothed with reflexed bristles under the flower, elongating in fruit. Sepals 

 bristly. Capsule 1 4 in., densely bristly, at length glabrous ; style slender. 



5. BT. nipalensis, DC. Prodr. i. 121 ; stellately pubescent and laxly 

 hairy, leaves sinuate-lobed or pinnatifid, flowers golden yellow, sepals 



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