PLATE 3. 
3. Месохорвів PRIMULINA Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxiv. 2, 819 (1896). 
Natural order Рарахетасеге. 
A small, almost glabrous herb with a fusiform rootstock 3—10 cm. long, its neck 
clothed with old sheaths; stems short, leafy at the base only; /eaves linear-oblong, 
entire, acute, 4—7 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, radical few, spathulate, all narrowed into 
short petioles and very sparsely strigose on both surfaces; flowers pendulous, dark 
violet-purple, on a terminal scape 18 cm. long and one or two axillary lateral scapes 
8—10 em. long ; sepals 2, glabrous, 1:25 cm. long; petals 6—8, imbricate, narrowly ovate 
with а distinct claw, 2 cm. long, '75—125 cm. wide, the inner narrower; stamens 
about 50; filaments of the outer series sometimes united into phyllomes with antheri- 
ferous fringe, when free filiform, as long as tie ovary, anthers orbicular-ovate, golden, 
yellow; ovary glabrous, 4-carpelled, narrowly ovate, 12 тат. long, 5 mm. wide, 
tapering into a slender style one-third as long; placentas intruded and passing up 
the substance of the style as two pairs of approximated vascular traces each bearing 
at the base of the style a projecting papilla inclined laterally so that the 4 papillae 
form 2 pairs alternating with the placental traces and style-lobes aud opposite the clefts 
of the 2-partite stigma with oblong plano-convex lobes, the outer convex surfaces 
of each pair stigmatic. 
eastern HIMALAYA ; Вообап, at Do lep; Chumbi, at Sham-chen; Collectors of the 
Calcutta Botanie Garden ! 
This species is most nearly related to Meconopsis Henrici Franch. (Journ, de 
. Botanique v. 19), a plaut from Szechuen with much the same habit and with the 
same tendency to cohesion of the stamens of the outer whorl but with a depressed 
globose ovary, strigose in its upper half, shorter than its style, and without the 
peculiar epaulettes characteristic of the ovary of M. primulina, 
Рілте 8.—Meconopsis primulina Prain. 1, plant with bud, opened flower and flower with 
perianth fallen,—of natural sise ; 2, stamen of inner row; 3, phalanx of stamens of outer row: 4, 
young fruit; 5, another young fruit, cut transversely ; 6, young seed,—all enlarged ; 7, ovule,— 
much enlarged. Specimen from Sham-chen, in Chumbi, probable elevation 11—12,000 feet above 
sea-level. 
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PLATE 4. 
4. Meconopsis BELLA Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiii. 2. 82 (1891) and lxiv. 
2. 321 (1896). 
Naiural order Papaveraceæ. 
A dwarf, perennial, glabrous or sparingly setulose herb with a stout rhizome 12 em 
long, slightly branched below, its neck exserted 2 cm. or more and densely sheathed 
with old leaf-bases ; /ea'es all radical, petioles 6—10 cm. long, widening towards the 
base into a membranous sheath, blades 2°5 ст. long, 1--1۰5 em. wide, ovate-lanceolate, | 
2—3-jugately unequally pinnatisect, the segments 3-partite with ovate-obtuse lobules 
Any. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catc., Vor, ІХ, 
