314 D. Pram — Some additional Papaveracea?. [No. 3, 



It is impossible to sustain the specific rank claimed for this form. In the 

 northern and central portions of the area inhabited by the species the two forms 

 come from adjacent districts. In Sikkim, the extreme southern limit of its 

 geographical distribution, the two forms grow intermixed ; all our Calcutta gather- 

 ings, as well as Hooker's original ones, show transitions from the one to the other. 



[Var. rudis ; stems like those of var. racemosa but taller, thicker, 

 hardly grooved and leafy at the base with the lower pedicels bracteate ; 

 leaves very thick with subsinuate margins and very sparsely prickly 

 as are the sepals and stems ; capsules small, hardly exceeding in diam. 

 the much expanded torus. M. racemosa Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 

 xxxiii. 38 (1886) ; Plant Delavay. 41 (1889) vix Maxim. 



Yunnan : Li-kiang, Delavay ! 



This plant, united by M. Franchet with Mr. Maximowicz' M. racemosa, certainly 

 differs varietally in the points noted.] 



The suggestion made iu the Flora Indica and again in the Flor. Brit. Ind. that 

 M. horridula may after all be no more than an Alpine form of M. aculeata has not, 

 so far, been supported by the collection of the necessary intermediate forms. On 

 the contrary the facts of distribution among the members of the Aculeatse group 

 point decidedly in the opposite direction. Although M. aculeata has capsules re- 

 markably like those of M. horridula its torus is not thickened, its leaves are widely 

 dissimilar, its stem is leafy and its pedicels are bracteate. 



2. (3.) Meconopsis aculeata Boyle, III. 67. t. 15 (1839) ; Walp 

 Bep.i. 110 (1842); H.f. 8f T. Flor. Ind. 253 (1855); Walp. Ann. iv 

 171 (1857); Klotzsch, Beis. Pr. Waldem. 129 ( 1862) ; Hook. Bot. Mag 

 t. 5456 (1864) ; H. f. $■ T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 118 (1872). M. Gulielmi 

 Waldemari Klotzsch, Beis. Pr. Waldem. 129. t. 36 (1862) ; Walp. Ann 

 vii. 86 (1868). M. napaulensis Jacquem. MSS. in Herb. Paris; Falc, 

 MSS. in Herb. Saharanpur ; nee M. napaulensis DG. Wall. Gat. n. 8122 



It is not possible to accord even varietal rank to the form, figured and des 

 cribed by Klotzsch as M. Gulielmi- Waldemari. 



3. ( — .) Meconopsis sinuata Prain ; prickly, stem leafy, leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, flowers pale blue-purple ; capsules long narrowly 

 obconic, sparsely prickly. 



Var. tijpici ; leaves obtuse with sinuate margins. 



Sikkim : Patang-la, Pey-kiong-la and Ney-go-la, King's Collectors ! 

 Jongri, G. Gammie ! Bootan : Dichu Valley, Cummins! 



[Var. Prattii ; leaves subacute serrate or subentire. 



Szechuen : near Tachienlu, Pratt., n. 525 !] 

 Rootstock stout, fusiform ; stems 1-3 ft. smooth except for the scattered prickles. 

 Leaves 4-7 in., long petioled, upper cauline sessile. Cymes few-fid., flowers 2-3 in. 

 diam., pedicels bracteate slender fastigiate in fruit, prickly ; petals 4. Capsule 

 lj-l£ in. sparsely prickly, ultimately subglabrous ; style £- J in. ; stigma small. 

 Seeds seaberulons hilum slightly crested. 



This species has much the habit of M. aculeata of which it appears to be in 



