HORTUS VEITCHII 



usually borne singly, but occasionally two or more are produced on one 

 flower-stem. The leaves narrow, oblong-obtuse, glabrous, more or less 

 covered with brownish spinescent hair. 



A native of the grasslands of the Chino-Tibetan frontier, at elevations 

 of 11,000-14,000 ft., first met with by Prince Henri d'Orleans and 

 subsequently introduced to cultivation from the same locality. 



MECONOPSIS INTEGKIFOLIA, Franch. 



Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxvi. p. 240, fig. 97, and suppl. illus. ; id. vol. xxxvii. p. 291, 

 fig. 121 ; Bot. Mag. t. 8027 ; Die Gartenwelt, 1905, Jahrgang, ix. p. 534, col. pi. 



Meconopsis integrifolia was first discovered by the Kussian, Przewalski, 

 who sent herbarium specimens to Maximowicz, and he named them 

 Cathcartia integrifolia ; Franchet subsequently, however, noticed that the 

 dehiscence of the capsule excluded the plant from that genus, and he 

 named it Meconopsis integrifolia ; the honour of first flowering in Europe 

 this plant is to M. Maurice de Vilmorin, a principal in the great seed 

 house on the Quai de la Megisserie. 



A Meconopsis of which there is a coloured plate in Flora & Sylva, 1905, 

 vol. iii. p. 80, named M. integrifolia, is not the plant of which Franchet 

 writes in Plantm Delavayance : 



" La plante du Yunnan ressemble absolument a celle du Kansu, dont 

 M. Maximowicz a communique un exemplaire a 1'herbier du Museum. 

 Le mode de dehiscence de la capsule ne permet pas de la considerer 

 comme une espece du genre Cathcartia, ainsi que 1'avait pense M. Maxi- 

 mowicz auquel du reste les fruits du M. integrifolia etaient demeures 

 incornus. 



" La plante ressemble singuilierement au M. simplicifolia, Hook, et 

 Thomps. ; mais les tiges sont constamment pluriflores et la portion 

 retre*cie constituant le style est tres raccourcie." 



The plant referred to as La plante du Yunnan was received with 301 

 other packets by M. de Vilmorin on March 28th 1895 from Abbe Farges 

 Tchein-keon Eastern Schezuan : packet 1,102 was distributed in three 

 directions, and the seed differently treated, and at Les Barres, the country 

 mansion of M. de Vilmorin par Nogent-sur-Vernisson, Loiret, a plant 

 flowered in April 1896 a photograph of that plant is before the writer. 

 Others kept in pots remained small and did not bloom till 1897 ; in every 

 case, hand pollination proved unsuccessful and the plant was lost until 

 distributed in 1905 by the Veitchian firm. 



MECONOPSIS PUNICEA, Maxim. 



Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxvi. p. 282, fig. 130; Flora and Sylva, 1905, vol. iii. p. 84. 

 A hardy Alpine from the Tibetan frontier through Wilson, first flowered 

 at Langley in September 1904. 



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