]895.] D. Pram — Some additional Papaveraeeas. 317 



from the inadequacy of the material in European Herbaria. In some cases var. 

 typica has only a close stellate pubescence and then remarkably resembles M. Walli- 

 chii, but even if the colour of the petals has not been noted the ovaries with 10-11- 

 placentas and the 10-1 1-lobed stigma, or at a later stage the larger ovate 10— 11-valved 

 capsule with shorter style much thickened below and the altogether different 

 pubescence of the capsule amply distinguish this from M. Wallichii. 



That Wall. Cat. n. 8123/b is D. Don's Papaver paniculatum is made certain by 

 the fact that Don has himself written this name on the type sheet of Wall. Cat. n. 

 8123/b, whicb moreover retains the original field ticket on which Wallich has 

 written the MSS name Polychxtia paniculata. D. Don has at the same time 

 identified n. 8123/b with Meconopsis napaulensis DC. ; this identification is quite 

 erroneous; Meconopsis napaulensis forms the red-flowered portion of Gr. Don's 

 Stylopliorum paniculatum whereas D. Don's Papaver pauicula-'um forms the yellow- 

 flowered portion of G. Don's Stylopliorum- paniculatum. Hooker and Thomson on 

 the other hand have assigned the name M. nipalensis to Wall. Cat. n. 8123 a, and 

 have referred 'Wall. Cat. n. 8123/b to M Wallichii in this following Sir W. 

 Hooker who does not however include Wallich's yellow-flowered Nepal plant in 

 his description of the blue-flowered Sikkim one though he cites the sheet itself. 

 Besides being both, as it now transpires, truly conspecific, neither of the portions 

 of Wallich's n. 8123 agrees at all well with the original description of M. napaulen- 

 sis ; that description applies alone among the Himalayan species, to Wall. Cat. n. 

 8121 and a comparison of that number with the original M. napaulensis in Mr. C. 

 de Candolle's " Prodromus Herbarium" shows them to be identical. 



The precise locality of Wall, Cat. n. 8123/a is doubtful. The original field 

 ticket is missing ; in the Lith. Cat. list it stands as " Kamaon ? " This citation ia 

 almost certainly wrong ; for the species does not occur amongst the plants sent by 

 Blinkworth from Kamaon, and no collector has found it in Kamaon since Blink- 

 worth's time. In all probability, Wall. Cat. n. 8123 a, like n. 8123/b, came from 

 Nepal. 



6. ( — .) Meconopsis superba King ; tall stout hirsute -with soft 

 flexuous spreading hairs and densely clothed with soft grey pubescence ; 

 leaves ohovate oblong serrate ; cymes simple ; flowers white margins 

 of petals entire; ovary globose 7-ll-valved densely clothed with ad- 

 pressed setaa and with close stellate pubescence. 



Bootan : Ho-Ko-Chu, Bungboo I 



Stems simple, apparently 6 ft. high, 1^ in. thick within 2 feet of top ; cauline 

 leaves sessile amplexicaul 10-20 in. long ; cyrnes rather dense-fid , pedicels 2-3 

 in eacb axil ; sepals If in. long ; flowers nearly 4 in. diam. 



This very fine plant is perhaps only a form of If. paniculata var. elata ; the 

 chief differences are the larger size of all its parts, the white, not yellow, petals 

 and the serrate but not lobed cauline leaves. The ovary is exactly like that of 

 M panicul'ta ; ripe fruit is as yet unknown. 



7. ( — .) Meconopsis napaulensis DC. Prodr. i. 121 (1824); tall 

 glaucescent sparsely hirsute with soft flexuous spreading hairs rarely 

 also thinly substellately pubescent, leaves lobed pinnatipartite or ly- 

 rate-pinnatisect lobes rounded-oblong Avidely crenate-dentate ; cymes 

 simple or paniculate, tips of peduncles and sepals patently hirsute, 





