JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. LXIII. Part II.-NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. II.— 1894. 



Novicioe IndicDS VII. Description of a neio species of Meconopsis 

 from Sihkim. — By D. Prain. 



[Eeceived March 31st — Read April 4th.] 



Among the novelties obtained by the collectors woi'kiug under Dr. 

 King's supervision in the Eastern Himalaya since the publication of 

 the first volume of Sir J. D. Hooker's Flora of British India, one of the 

 most interesting and elegant is a small species of Meconopsis collected 

 in two localities near the Nepal frontier in 1888. Seeds of this plant 

 were sent by Dr. King to Europe in that year, but unfortunately none 

 of the numerous foreign correspondents of the Royal Botanic Garden 

 appear to have succeeded in raising plants, and though the species has 

 been carefully looked for since, it has not again been met with. When 

 it is at length obtained it is likely to prove a very acceptable addition 

 to European and North American horticulture. It has been the writer's 

 intention for some years to publish the results of a critical study of 

 the Indian Papaveracece, but the pressure of more urgent duties has 

 hitherto prevented the completion of his notes. As, however, members 

 of the Society and others, in annually increasing numbers, make tours 

 in Sikkim, it seems better no longer to defer the publication of a des- 

 cription of this species so as to make its recognition possible to those 

 who — and all who can use the work should — take with them on their 

 journey a copy of the Flora of British India. To the brief diagnosis, in 

 which its place among the species described in that work is shewn, a full 

 botanical account is appended. 

 J. II. II 



