Eastern Himataya: Sikkim, at 13—14,000 feet, not common; Ta-me-da; King? 
Chiani, Phallut and Jongri; Calcutta Garden Collectors ! Tankra; G. Gammie! пеат 
Gnatong; Cummins! 
This little species was a puzzle to Indian systematic botanists from 1877, when it 
was first obtained by Sir G. King, till it was met with by Capt. Cummins at 
Gnatong in 1893. The ripe fruits, dehiscing downwards towards the base and not by 
valves at the tip only, indicate that it is а Сайсагйа rather than a Meconopsis; the 
fact that there are often 3 valves, and the placentation, show that it is not a 
Stylophorum. 
Рглте 7.—Catheartia lyrata Ситт. & Prain. 1, plant,—of natural size; 2, floral diagram; 3, 
petal x 2; 4, samen x 3; 5, 6, ovaries, cut transversely x 2; 7, capsule x 2; 8, seed x 5. 
Specimen from Chiani, on the Nepal Frontier. 
D P. 
PLATE 8. 
8. CaTucartia POLYGONOIDES Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, lxiv. 2. 326 (1898). 
Natural order Papaveracee. 
À glabrescent herb with aslender rootstock clothed with sheaths, 4—5 cm. long; 
stems simple, slender, strigose, 15—35 cm, high, about as thick as a crow-quill or 
less; radical and subradical leaves long-petioled, cauline leaves 2—3, lower long-petioled 
uppermost sessile stem-clasping, radical and lower cauline petioles 6—10 cm. long, 
laminae ovate-oblong, obtuse, base cuneate, truncate or slightly cordate, margins entire 
or slightly incised crenate, sparingly hairy on both surfaces, 4—5 cm. long, 
1:5—2 cm. wide; jlswers solitary, nodding, 2*5 сш. across; petals blueish-white, 
rather narrowly lanceolate, apex acute or rarely obtuse, margin entire; stamens 16 in 
two rows of 8 each; ovary narrowly ovate, style distinct, stigma small 2—3-lobed, 
placentas little intruded, 2—3. 
EASTERN HimatayaA: Chumbi, at Sham-Chen, аб Put-lo, and at Ling-moo-tong; 
Сайсийа Garden Collectors ! 
The flowers and unripe capsules of this plant are so like those of б, lyrata 
that there would seem to be little room for doubt as to its generic position. But 
it is also very like a smail form of a plant from Yunnan described and figured 
by М. Franchet as Meconopsis betonicaefolia [Plantae Delavayanae, 49. t. 12 (1889)] of 
which it has all the habit and, though оп a smaller scale, exactly the foliage. 
A final decision as regards both Cathcartia polygonoides and Meconopsis belonicaefolia 
can only be given when ripe fruits of both have been received. The specific 
differences between the two plants are the fewer (16) stamens in the Chumbi plant 
than in the Yunnan one, which has 64; the narrower, much smaller petals; and the 
smaller ovary and stigma. 
Ртлте 8.—Catheartia polygonoides Prain. 1, plant,—of natural size; 2, floral diagram ; 3, petal, 
from the plant figured as fig. 1; ard 4, petal, from a plant collected at Put-lo,—btoth x 2; 5, 
stamen x 3; 6, ovary x 3. Plant from Sham-Chen, Chumbi. 
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