306 D. Praia — Some additional Papaveraceee. [No. 3, 



linear incised-dentate sparingly hispid, filaments filiform, sepals hir- 

 sute with a dorsal conical process under the tip ; capsule ovate setose 

 aculeate, stigma convex rays 4-6. 0. A. Mey. in Ind. Sem. ix, 35, 82 

 (1843) ; Bunge, Bel. Bot. Lehm. 16 (1847); Stscheg. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 

 (1854) i., 151 ; Trautv. Bull. Soc. Mosc. (1860) i. 91 ; Regel $• Herder, 

 Bull. Soc. Mosc. (1866) iii. 90; Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 116 (1867); 

 Osten-Sacken & Rupr. Sert. Tianschan. 38 ( 1869) ; Regel Sf Herder, Bull. 

 Soc. Mosc. (1870) ii. 248. P. hybridum Kar. Sf Kir. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 

 (1842) i. 141 non Linn. P. cornigerum Stocks, Bond. Jo urn. Bot. iv. 

 142 ( 1852) : H. f. Sf T. Flor. Ind. 250 (1855) ; Walp. Ann. iv. 173 

 (1857). 



Panjab : Peshawar, Vicary ! Stewart! Scinde: Stocks! British 

 Beldchistan : near Quetta, Sanders ! Duke ! Lace ! Duthie ! Appleton ! 

 Distrib. Throughout Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan and Soon- 

 garia. 



Annual, stems slender sparingly branched ; leaves, flowers and habit very like 

 those of P. hybridum; the capsules however are smaller while the horned sepals 

 and the filiform filaments at once easily distinguish it. 



4. (3.) Papaver Rhceas Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i., i. 507 (1753). 

 Var. typica; stigmatic rays 8-12. 



This is an extremely rare plant in India ; the only undoubted specimens the 

 writer has seen were collected by Sir D. Brandis in Chamba, Panjab Himalaya 

 (Brandts n. 4336!). Some specimens that may also be referable to genuine P. 

 Rhceas were collected in Kashmir by Dr. T. Thomson. These, however, in spite of 

 the smaller number of their stigmatic rays, look more like a reversion to type, 

 after "escape, " of the following variety, than like the European plant. 



Var. latifolia; stigmatic rays 12-20. Papaver Rhceas var. lati- 

 folia Ham. Mss. in Wall. Cat. n. 8119 (1830). P. Hookeri Baker in 

 Bot. Mag. cix. t. 6729 (1883). The Shirley Poppy : Journ. of Horticult. 

 (1886) p. 367, f. 55. 



Cultivated in Indian gardens from Scinde, Stocks ! to the North- 

 West Provinces, Royle! Falconer ! Thomson ! King ! and Lower Bengal, 

 Hamilton ! Hooker ! 



Annual, branched, 3-4 ft. high, covered with spreading hispid hairs ; stem as 

 thick as little finger at base, branches erect and ascending, flowering copiously ; 

 flowers 2-i in. across; petals in unequal pairs, crenulate, pale rose to bright 

 crimson, base wedge-shaped with diffused white to blue-black spot; capsule l~ f in. 

 diam., shortly stalked, crenations of disk rounded overlapping. 



From this description, which applies to the cultivated plant, it will be seen 

 that there is hardly room for doubt that we have here to deal with only a form 

 of P. Rhceas. The distinguishing botanical feature is the larger number of 

 stigmatic rays; on the strength of this character Mr. Baker has proposed specific 

 rank for the plant. This it certainly does not deserve and from the existence of 



