PLATE 2. 
2. Meconopsis GRANDIS Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxiv. 2. 320 (1896). 
Natural order Papaveracee. 
A tall, softly hairy herb with a stout rootstock clothed with sheaths, its neck 
villous; radical leaves tufted, numerous, ovate-lanceolate, blades coarsely serrate, 9—18 ет. 
long, and tapering into petioles 15—24 cm. long; stem 4'5—9 dm. high, leafy, cauline 
leaves like radical but short-petioled or sessile passing into bracts, the lower 1—3 
scattered, the upper 3—5 collected in a whorl, the lowest shortly petioled, vacant, at 
times absent; the next 1—2 with axillary flower-buds; bracts of the whorl subequal, 
12—15 сш. long, 6—8 cm. wide, with 1—2 axillary flowers; .main-axis terminating 
in a 1-41. scape extending 15—45 cm. beyond whorl; buds 4 cm., flowers 12 cm. 
in diam.; sepals 2, hirsute; petals deep-blue, 5—9, imbricate; stamens numerous 
ovary subcylindric, sparingly covered with harsh, spreading, ultimately subdeciduous 
bristles, placentas usually 5, slightly intruded ; style about one-third the length of ovary 
or less; capsule linear, oblong, 6 cm, long ; seeds rugose. 
SIKKIM : Jongri on the Nepal Frontier, at 10—12,000 ft.; Кіп/з Collec tors ! Тай 
n, 5435! б. А. Gammie ! 
This is one of the finest of the Indian species of Meconopsis ; it is evidently, in 
spite of its great difference in habit, closely related to М. simplicifolia Walp. (Вер. 
1. 110; Hook. f. Ill. Him, РІ, t. 8), with which it agrees in having tufted, coarsely 
dentate radical leaves and of which it has exactly the capsules and the seeds. It is 
also nearly related to Meconopsis integrifolia Franch. (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxiii. 389) 
which agrees with JM. grandis in having a stem that, though shorter, has also 1—2 
leaves below and a whorl of 5—8 bracts with 2—3 axillary as well as a terminal 
flower: above, but which differs in having all the leaves entire and in having yellow 
petals. 
When first describing this species tho writer stated that it “seems confined to 
the district of Jongri, but is very plentiful there." Mr. G. A. Gammie has very 
kindly written to say that this is so, but that even in Jongri it is only a cultivated 
plant, not grown, however, for its beauty but for the oil that is obtained by expression 
from its seeds. The inhabitants of Jongri say that the plant itself was brought thither 
from Nepal. 
When it was first described the largest number of petals found in a single 
flower had been seven; in the flower figured, however, which is from a more recent 
gathering, nine were present. 
2.—Meconopsis grandis Prain. 1, base of plant with radical leaves; 2, upper portion‏ ہیں 
of stem with bracts, buds and opened terminal flower; 3, young fruit; 4, ripe capsule —of natural‏ 
size 5, stamens; 6, ovary, out transversely; 7, seeds,—en/arged. Specimen from Jongri, in Western‏ 
Sikkim, at 12,000 feet above sea-level.‏ 
JE 
