1895.] D. Praia — Some additional Papaveraceae. 315 



the Eastern Himalaya the representative form. It has however different leaves 

 and a totally different capsule with a much smaller stigma. The plant here des- 

 cribed as var. Prattii Las leaves quite like those of M. hnrridida var racemosa 

 though of somewhat thinner texture. But besides having bracteate pedicels it 

 differs in having an unexpanded torus and a much less eculeate ovary. The cap- 

 sules of vae. Prattii are unfortunately not yet ripe but they agree exactly with 

 those of typical M. sinuata at a similar stage and are totally unlike those of M. 

 horridula or M. aculeata at any stage. 



§ 2. Robustae. Tall often branching ; stems, leaves and sepals hir- 

 sute or pubescent; ovaries' setose ; stigmas capitate; leaves pinuatifid to 

 -partite, radical many withering, cauline numerous all scattered; flowers 

 Papaveroid, i.e., with 4 petals. 



4. (4.) Meconopsis robusta H. f. $• T. Flor. Ind. 253 (1855) ; 

 tall, glaucescent, glabrous or sparsely crinite with soft flexuous spread- 

 ing hairs, leaves pinnatifidly lobed, lobes rounded acute, tips of 

 peduncles and sepals sparsely patently crinite ; cymes simple, flowers 

 sulphur yellow, margins of petals creniilate ; capsule obovate-oblong 

 8-11-valved, sparingly covered with adpressed sub-deciduous setaa. 

 Walp. Ann. iv. 171 (1857). M. nipalensis Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5585 

 (1866) nee DC. etvixH.f. Sf T. Flor. Ltd. $- Flor. Brit. Ind. M. 

 robusta H. f. 8)\ T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 118 (1872) in part ; excluding 

 the Nepal plant an. I the citation Wall. Cat. 8L21. Argemone mexicana 

 Wall. Cat. 8126 E (1830) nee Linn. Wall. Cat. n. 8124 ! 



Western Himalaya: Kamaon, 8-10,000 ft. Blinkworth in Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8124 ! 8126 E ! and in a third specimen without number in the 

 Wallichian type herbm. ! Nanik, Strachey and Winterbottom ! Chenab 

 Valley, Stewart! Ellis n. 1362 ! 1471 ! near Mussoorie, King ! Pindi, 

 Collett ! Palang Gradh, Byaus ; above Ramri; and Gralmar, 10-12,000 

 ft., Duthie ! 



Stems simple or branched 4-6 ft high almost 2 in. thick at base ; cymes 

 lax-fld. 1-2 ft. long, flowers 2-3 in. across ; sepals a in. ; styles thickened at base £ in 

 long ; capsule, including style, If in. 



This species, apparently strictly confined to Kamaon though not at all uncom- 

 mon there, is perhaps only a geographical form, certainly is the western represen- 

 tative of the next species, from which it only differs in the want of fine pubescence 

 intermingled with its long hairs, in the somewhat different lobulation of its leaves 

 and in the margins of its petals being crenuhite. In the Flora Indica Hooker a' 

 Thomson have cited only the Kamaon locality and only Wallich's n. 8124, cad 

 8126, both of which came from that province, for their species. The description 

 given, however, of the capsule applies rather to Wallich's n. 8121 from Nepal which 

 is cited as equivalent to n. 8124, in the Flora of British India, where the locality 

 Nepal is also given for the species. But the plant thus included (Wall. Cut. n. 

 8121) is wot the same as the Kamaon one; it is the true M. napaulensis of DC. 

 [Prodr. i. 121] — the crimson-flowered portion of Stylophorum paniculatum of G. 

 Don [Gen. Syst i. 135] — and is not distinguishable from the if. Wallichii var 



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