118 VIII. PAPAVERACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Arffemone. 



By roadsides and in fields throughout India. 



A robust herb, sometimes half-woody below, 2-4: ft., with 'spreading branches. 

 leaves 3-7 in. Flowen 1-3 in. diam. Sepals homed at the top. Capsuk \~\\ in. 

 long, terete, usually bristly, elliptic or oblong. 



2. laBCONOPSlS, Viguier. 



Perennial herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers solitary 

 or racemed, large, blue yellow or purple. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Ovary 

 l-celled ; style distinct, stigmatic lobes radiating on its clubbed extremity. 

 Capsule ovoid or elongate, with short valves. below the persistent style. 

 Seeds many, small, rugose. — Disteib. Mountains of the N. hemisphere ; 

 species about 10. 



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Scapes radical, l-flowered. 



1. Itl. simpUcifolia, H. /. <fc T. Fl. Ind. 252 : softly hairy, leaves lan- 

 ceolate entire or few-toothed. Hooh.f. III. Him. PI. t. 8. Papaver simpli- 

 cifolium, Don Prodr. 196; WaU. Gat. 8125. 



SDBAI.FINE Himalaya, Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 ft., H.f. 



Boot stout, fusiform; neck villous. Leaves many, 2-3 in., tapering into a petiole. 

 Scapes stout, clothed with deflexed hairs. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., blue-purple. Sepals 

 hispid. Ovary cylindric ; style J in., stigmas 5-8. Capsule 2 in., linear-oblong, covered 

 witii deciduous hairs. 



2. nx. borridula, H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 252 ; prickly, leaves lanceolate 

 subentire. 



Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 14-17,000 ft., S/. 



Stem, 0, or short. Leaves 3-5 in., obtuse or acute. Scapes 4-8 in.,, many, rigid, 

 erect, densely prickly. Flowers 1^ in. diam., blue-purple. Sepals bristly. Capsule 

 J-1 in., prickly, obovate or oblong ; style J in,, stigma conical. — Possibly a state of M. 

 acuhata. In abnormal flowers the petals are sometimes many and linear. 



** Stems leafy. Flowers racemed or panided. 



3. Vt. aculeata, Poyle III. 67, t. 15 ; prickly, leaves irregularly pinna- 

 tifid, flowers blue-purple, capsules short prickly and bristly. Wall. Cat. 

 8122; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 253; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5456. M. Gul. Walde- 

 mani, Klotzsch. Reis. Pr. Wald. t. 36. 



Western Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon; alt. 11-15,000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., smooth, except the short scattered prickles. Leaves 4-8 in., oblong or 

 lanceolate, long-petioled ; cauline sessile. Flowers 2-3 in. diam.; pedicels slender, - 

 prickly in fruit. Capsule 4-| in., densely prickly, obconio-obovate or oblong ; style 

 half as long. 



4. IKE. robusta, H.f&T. Fl. Ind. 253; glaucous, sparsely hairy, leaves 

 pinnatifid, capsule linear-oblong 7-8-valved clothed with spreading bristles. 

 WaU. Cat. -8121, 8124. 



Tempehate Himalaya, alt._ 8-10,000 ft. ; from Nipal, Wallich, to Kumaon. 



Stem 4-6 ft. Leaver 8-14 in., pinnate, lobes pinnatifid, long-petioled, canline sessile. 

 Flowers 2-3 in. diam., colour unknown, in subracemose panicles; pedicels 3-4 in., 

 densely clothed with reflexed bristles under the flower, elongating m ftuit. Sepals 

 bristly. Capside \\ in., densely bristly, at length glabrous ; style slender. 



5. BE. nipalensls, DC. Prodr. i. 121 ; stellately pubescent and lady 

 hairy, leaves sinuate-lobed or pinnatifid, flowers golden yellow, sepals 



