308 D. Prain — Some additional Papaveracese. [No. 3, 



Flor. Orient, i. 115 (1867). P. Rhceas Wall. Cat. n. 8120 (1830) nee 

 Linn. P. Rhceas ? H. f. 8f T. Flor. Ind. 251 (1855). 



Kashmir: common, Falconer! Thomson! Aitchison ! at Romoo, 

 6000 feet, Clarke n. 28543 ! at Srinagar, 5300 feet, G. Gammie ! culti- 

 vated or an escape. Bengal : cultivated, Hamilton ! Distrib. Yarkand, 

 Afghanistan, Persia and Armenia. 



Annual, branched, 1—2 ft., scapes with adpressed hairs; leaves, habit and 

 general appearance of P. dubium VAR. glabrum (P. Isevigatum M. Bieb.) and of 

 P. Rhceas var. commutatum (P. commutatum Fisch. and Mey.) but easily distin- 

 guished from all forms of P. Rhceas by the shape of its capsule which is like that 

 of P. dubium, and from all forms of P. dubium by its deeply lobed, star-like 

 disc with ridged crenatures. Petals purple with a dark basal eye; capsule fin. 

 —1 in. long. 



The presence of this species in India has been overlooked owing to its having 

 been mistaken when in flower for P. Rhceas and when in fruit for P. dubium. Of 

 its specific position thero is not however any doubt : the Indian plant is exactly that 

 wliich forms tho typo of P. macrostomum Boiss. and Huet. Since the publication 

 of the Flora Orientalis however very large suites of specimens of P. macrostomum 

 have been reported. These show that, like its allies P. dubium and P. Rhceas, 

 this is an extromoly variable plant and a careful study of all the specimens in M. 

 Boissier's own Herbarium, in Herb. Kow and in Herb. Paris has convinced the 

 writer that P. macrostomum is not specifically distinct from P. turbinatum, the solitary 

 specimen of which has tho same capsule and disc and only differs in foliage and in 

 stature from tho original specimens of P. macrostomum. Since the latter species was 

 proposed all the necessary intermediates have been reported again and again. 



8. ( — .) Papaver Decaisnei Hochst. 8f Steud. in Schimp. PL Arab. 

 exs. n. 125 (April 1836) ; leaves pinnatipartite, segments lanceolate- 

 dentate, caul ine rounded at base and amplexicaul ; capsule ovate-ob- 

 long glabrous, stigma 5-7-rayed. Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 115 (1867). 

 P. turbinatum Fresen. Mus. Senkenb. 173 (1831) non DC. Papaver 

 sp. nov. Decaisne, Fl. Sinai. 45 (1835). P. dubium var. Decaisnei 

 Elkan, Monogr. Papav. 26 (1839). P. dubium var. Isevigatum H. f. ty T. 

 Flor. Ind. 250 (1855) in part; Aitchison. J own. Linn. Soc. xviii. 32 

 (18S1) in part, non Elkan. 



Panjab : Rawal Pindi, Aitchison n. 44 ! Trans. -Indus dist., Steivart ! 

 Scinde : Stocks ! Distrib. Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Persia, Arabia, 

 S. Syria. 



A glaucesccnt glabrous annual or rarely a biennial 6-12 in. high, with very short 

 stems and long peduncles ; floicers 1 in. diam., sepals glabrous, petals obovate rose 

 purple with dark eye; anthers shortly oblong. 



The Eastern limit of the geographical area of this species lies just inside the 

 frontier of the Indian Empire along its whole north-west border. The species has 

 been associated by Elkan and by most Indian botanists with P. dubium var. laeviga- 

 tum, and the resemblance is indeed often very great. It is however easily distin- 

 guished by its perfectly glabrous glaucous appearance and by its stem-leaves which 



