Meconopsis.] vm. PAPAVERACE^E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) \119 



setose, capsule obovate-oblong 8-10-valved. Wall. Cat. 8123 A ; H.f. & T. 

 Fl. Ind. 253 ; H. f. III. Him. PL t. 9. Papaver paniculatum, Don Prodr. 197. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft.; Nipal, Wallich, Sikkim, H.f. 



Stem 3-5 ft., stout, erect, nearly simple ; young parts clothed with soft golden villous 

 hairs. Leaves 10-16 in., oblong or lanceolate, softly pubescent when young. Flowers 

 2-34 in- diam., in elongated nearly simple racemes. Sepals densely tomentose and 

 bristly. Capsule 1^-2 in., clothed with appressed hairs and stellate down ; style in. 



6. M. Wallichii, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4668 ; slender, stellately pubescent 

 and softly hairy, leaves pinnatifid, flowers much panicled purple, sepals not 

 setose, capsule elliptic-oblong 5-valved. Wall. Cat. 8123 B; H. f. & T. 

 Fl Ind, 254. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 9-10,000 ft. ; in Nipal, Wallich, and Sikkirn, H.f. 



Stem 4-6 ft., branched. Leaves 8-12 in., oblong or obovate-lanceolate, glaucous 

 beneath; long-petioled. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., many; pedicels short. Sepals densely 

 pubescent. Capside 1 in., elliptic-oblong, 5-valved, densely bristly. There is much 

 confusion in the Wallichian Herbarium amongst the specimens of the three last species 

 (which are included in his numbers 8123, 8124 and 8125), and which we suspect may 

 be reduced to two ; and we are further not sure to which Don's Papaver paniculatum 

 belongs. 



3. CATKCARTIA, Hook. f. 



A perennial softly hairy herb; juice yellow. Leaves long-petioled, cor- 

 date, lobed. Flowers racemed, golden-yellow. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Ovary 

 1 -celled ; stigma sessile, 4-6-lobed ; ovules many, on 4-6 parietal placentas. 

 Capsule cylindric, dehiscing throughout its length by valves between the 

 placentas which remain attached to the persistent stigma. Seeds stro- 

 phiolate. 



1. C. villosa, Hookf. in Bot. Mag. t. 4596; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 254. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft., H.f. 



Stem 10-18 in., sparingly branched. Leaves 1-3 in. diam., long-petioled; 3-5-lobed, 

 lobes variously cut ; cauline shorter petioled and less divided, uppermost sessile. 

 Flowers few, 2-3 in. diam., in few-flowered racemes ; pedicels slender, curved. Cap- 

 sules 2-3 in., slender, erect, valves membranous. 



4. STVX.OFROB.UBX, Nuttal. 



Perennial herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers yellow or red. 

 Sepals 2. Petals 4. Ovary 1-celled; style erect, stigmas 2-4, ascending, 

 papillose on the inner surface; ovules many, on 2-4 parietal placentas. 

 Capside ovoid-oblong or linear, dehiscing by 2-4 valves between the pla- 

 centas which remain attached to the persistent stigmas. DISTEIB. Species 

 4-5, temperate European and Asiatic. 



1. S. lactucoides, Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. PL 53 ; laxly hairy, leaves 

 runcinate pinnatifid, flowers yellow. Dicranostigma lactucoides, H. f. & T. 

 Fl. Ind. 255. 



Inner ranges of the GARWHAL HIMALAYA, alt. 11,000 ft., Stretch. & Winterb. 



Rootstock stout, woody. Stem 6-10 in. Leaves nnmerous, 3-5 in., glaucous beneath, 

 segments broad ovate, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole winged ; cauline sessile. Scapes 

 3-4, slender. Flowers few, 2 in. diam., pedicels slender. Sepals pilose, tips horned. 



