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5 mm: long and 3 mm. wide; scapes simple, slender, 1-flowered, the buds at first 
nodding ; flowers rather large, 4 em. across, blue; sepals 2, ovate, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. 
wide; petals usually 4, but occasionally 5, 3 cm. long, 2 cm. across, ovate-rotund ; 
stamens ©, about 80, the filaments filiform, 6 mm, long, glabrous, the anthers oblong, 
apparently golden-yellow, 2°5 mm. long, hardly 1 mm. wide; ovary ovate, slightly 
setose below, glabrous above, 5 mm. long, placentas 4—5, hardly intraded, style distinct, 
2—3 mm. long; ripe capsules obpyriform, 15 mm. long, tapering below into a false 
stipe 4 mm, long; seeds numerous, 1:28 mm. long, ‘3 mm. wide, testa lax, pseudostro- 
phiolate; embryo small, basilar. 
EASTERN HIMALAYA : Sikkim, in Jongri at Pey-kiong-ia, about 12,000 feet above 
sea-level and at Nyegu on the Nepalese frontier, about 14,000 feet elev.; Collectors of 
Calcutta Botani: Garden 1 
A pretty little species, with leaves like those of a Corydalis, It flowers in July. 
All the specimeus received up to 1894 had been quite glabrous, but some, obtained in 
1896 by the orchid-collectors working for Sir George King and Mr. Pantling, have 
sparingly setulose scapes and leaf stalks. 
Рглтв 4.—Meconopsis bella Prain. 1, flowering plant; 2, fruiting plant,—of natural size; 8, 
stamen; 4, ovary; 9, another ovary, cut transversely; 6, ripe capsule; 7, seed,—a more or less 
enlarged. Specimens from Pey-kiong-la, in Jongri. | 
Dok. 
PLATE 5. 
5. Meconopsis SUPERBA King ex Prain in Journ, Аз. Soc. Beng. lxiv. 2. 317 (1896). 
Natural order Papaveraceze, 
А tall, softly hairy herb probably 15—20 dm. high, stems 4 ст. in diam. about 
5 dm, from the top, simple, hirsute like the leaves with کم‎ spreading, flexuous hair 
and densely clothed with soft, grey pubescence; cauline leaves sessile, amplexicaui, 
obovate-oblong, serrate, acute, 25—50 em. long, 7—10 сш. wide, passing upwards into 
similar but smaller bracts; cymes simple, rather dense-flowered, pedicels short, never 
exceeding З cm., 2—3 in each axil; flowers white, nearly 10 cm. wide; sepals 4°5 ош. 
long; margins of petals entire; ovary globose, 7—11-valved, سد‎ clothed with 
adpressed setae and with close stellate pubescence. 
Eastern HiMALAYA: Ho-ko-chu in Chumbi, about 10,000 ft, above sea-level; Collectors 
of the Calcutta Botanic Garden! 
This very fine plant has been only once collected; it is perhaps no more than a 
form of Meconopsis paniculata Prain (М. napaulensis Walp., Н. f. у Т, but not of DC), 
The chief differences are the larger size of all its parts, the white not yellow petals, 
and the serrate but not lobed cauline leaves. The ovary is quite like that of М. 
paniculata ; the fruit is unknown. 
Puare 5.—Meconopsis superba King. 1, top of flowering stem,—of nitural size; 2, stamens; 
`8, ovary,—enlarged. Specimen from Ho-ko-chu, Chumbi. 
G. К.; D. P е 
