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the Himalayas and Tibet and occurring in Szechuen and Yunnan ; 

 species 4-8, the group Bobiistse peculiar so far as is known to the central 

 and Eastern Himalaya ; species 9 belongs to the group Primnlings of 

 which the remaining known members inhabit Szechuen and Yunnan ; 

 species 10 and 11 to the Grandes of which the three other known 

 members occur in Kansu, North Tibet, Szechuen and Yunnan; species 

 11 is the only representative of a very distinct group the Bellse. 



The genus includes 2 other groups not represented in India ; viz., 

 the Chelidonifolise with 2 Chinese and 1 Western European species and 

 the Anomalss with 2 Californian species. 



Unlike Papaver, Meconopsis is a characteristically Himalayan genns since 12 

 species, ornearly one-half of the known forms have been reported from the Himalay- 

 an region. Only two occur in the Western Himalaya ; one, M. aculeata, extending 

 from Garhwal and Kunawar to Kashmir, overlaps the eastern fringe of the area 

 occupied by Papaver ; the other, M. robxista, which is perhaps only a condition, and 

 certainly is at most the representative, of the more widely distributed M. pani- 

 culata, is confined to Kamaon. It is only when we reach the region from Central 

 Nepal eastward that we come upon the main body of the genus. In Central Nepal 

 we find three species, M. paniculata. M. napaulensis and M. simplicifolia ; these we 

 find in Eastern Nepal and Western Sikkim along with five other forms ; M. JFalli- 

 chii, which seems only a local manifestation of Jff. napaulensis ; M. sinuata, a 

 similar local manifestation of M. aculeata ; M. grandis, a local manifestation of M . 

 simplicifolia; M. horridula, a somewhat variable species widely extended through- 

 out Tibet and Western China of which M. aculeata and M. sinuata alike appear to be 

 derivates ; lastly, the exceedingly distinct M. bella. Somewhat further east we come 

 upon M. superba, a very handsome species that would however appear to be hardly 

 more than a local representative of M. paniculata ; and M. primulina, a near ally, and 

 perhaps only the local representative of a Szechuen species, M, Henrici. 



The region which includes Western and Central China from Kansu to Yunnan 

 and Hupeh is quite as rich in species as the explored Eastern Himalaya. In 

 Kansu there are three species ; M. quintuplinervia and M. punicea extending to 

 Northern Tibet, and M. integrifolia extei ding to Szechuen and Yunnan ; all three 

 are near allies of the Sikkim M. simplicifolia. In Szechuen we find six ; one species, 

 confined to the province, is M. Henrici nearly allied to the Himalayan M. primulina; 

 another is a form of the Tibeto-Himalayan 31. horridula ; a third is apparently 

 a form of the Sikkim M. sinuata; a fourth is M. integrifolia already discussed; the 

 last two are species which are very distinct from the rest and which have no Hi- 

 malayan representative, but which are very closely allied to each other; these are 

 Jkf. chelidonifolia, confined to Szechuen, and M. Oliveriana extending also to 

 Hnpeh, In Yunnan, besides M. integrifolia and a form of the nearly ubiquitous 

 M. horridula there are two species of the Primulinse group, Jkf. lancifolia and M. 

 Delavayi. * These two species, originally tentatively referred by M. FVanchet, 

 in the absence of ripe fruit, to Cathcartia, are, as their distinguished author has 



* Meconopsis lancifolia Franchet MS8. in Herb. Paris. Cathcartia lancifolia 

 Franchet Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxii. 391 (1886). Meconopsis Delavayi Franchet MSS. 

 in Herb. Paris. Cathcartia Delavayi Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxii. 390 (1886). 



