MALI 
PLATE 6. 
6. Meconopsis SINUATA Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Deng. lxiv. 2. 314 (1896). 
Natural order Рарахегасег. 
A tall, annual herb with a fusiform rootstock 10—16 cm. long, 1 em. thick, the 
neck clothed with old leaf-sheaths ; stem 30—90 cm. high, smooth except for scattered 
prickles, leafy throughout; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse with sinuate margins, 10—18 
em. long, 3—5 ст. wide, sparsely prickly, radical and lower cauline with petioles 4—6 
ст. long, upper cauline passing into bracts, sessile, subamplexicaul; cymes few-flowered ; 
flowers pale blue-purple, 5—7 cm. across, pedicels bracteate, slender, prickly, 6—8 ст. 
long, fastigiate in fruit; sepals 2, prickly; petals 4; capsules elongated, narrowly obconic, 
4—5 cm. long., 1 cm. in diam. towards upper third, sparsely prickly, at length almost 
smooth, style 5—12 mm. long., stigma small; seeds scaberulous, hilum slightly crested. 
Eastern HIMALAYA: Sikkim, at Patang-la, Pey-kiong-la, and Ney-go-la, 10—12,000 
ft.; Collectors of Calcutta Botanic Garden! Jongri, 12,000 ft.; G. A. Gammie ! Bootan, in 
the Dichu Valley, about 11,000 ft.; Cummins! 
This species bas much the habit of Meconopsis aculeata Royle, a North-West 
Himalayan plant, and appears to be the representative of Royle’s plant in the Eastern 
Himalaya: what seems to be а variety of our plant occurs in Szechuen. Meconopsis 
sinuata has, however, leaves that differ from those of M. aculeata in being merely 
sinuate instead of irregularly pinnatifid, and has very dissimilar capsules, those of 
М. aculeata being densely aculeate and short-oblong, only about twice as long as 
their styles. ; 
Prate 6. Meconopsis sinuata Ргат. 1, flowering plant ; 2, rootstock ; 3, top of fruiting plant,— 
of natural size; 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 6, ripe capsule; 7, the same, cut transversely; 8, seed,—a// 
enlarged. Flowering specimen from Pey-kiong-la; fruiting specimen from Dichu Valley. 
D.P. 
PLATE 7. 
7. CATHCARTIA LYRATA Ситт. $£ Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Beng, lxiv. 2. 325 (1396). 
Natural order Papaveracee. 
_ А small glabrescent herb with a rootstock slender throughout or swollen towards 
the neck which is clothed with sheaths, 2—3 cm. long; stems simple or sparingly 
branched, 8—25 em. high, about as thick as a crow-quill or less, glabrous or very 
sparingly hairy; radical leaves few, early withering; cauline 3—4, from hastate-entire to 
lyrate-pinnatifid, sparingly hirsute on both surfaces, green above, glaucescent beneath, 
lobes rounded, 2—4 cm. long, 1—2 cm. wide, petioles 2—4 cm. long; flowers 1—3 
(oftenest solitary), cymose; pedicels slender, 8—10 cm. long; buds nodding, 7 mm. in 
diam.; full-blown flowers 2:2 em. across; sepals orbieular, glabrous, green; petals blue, 4, 
narrowly to widely lanceolate, rounded or obtuse rarely acute, always faintly crispate at 
margin; stamens 16 in 2 rows of 8 each; ovary narrow-ovate, style distinct, stigma small 
2—3-lobed, placentas 2—3, distinctly intruded; capsuies 4 cm. long, very slender, erect, 
valves membranous, dehiscing from apex downwards towards Базе;  s;eds smooth, 
urcrested. 
