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flowers'dark fuscous-purple, capsules subcylindric or narrowly ovate 

 4-6-valved, densely covered with harsh setse at first yellow and ad- 

 pressed at leng-th rufous and spreading or subreflexed. Meconopsis 

 robusta H. f. 8f T. Flor. Brit. Lid. i. 1 18 (1872) in part and as to the 

 Nepal plant cited (Wall. Cat n. 8121) not of H. f. $• T. in Flor. Ind. 

 M. Wallichii var. rubrofusca Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6760 (1884). Stylo- 

 phorum nepalense Spreng. Syst. iv. cur. post. 203 (1827). S. panicula- 

 tum G. Bon, Gen. Syst. i. 135 ( 1831) in part only and as to the crimson- 

 fld. plant cited. 



Nepal : Grossain Than, Walltch n. 8121 ! Thari, in Eastern Nepal, 

 King's Collectors ! Sikkim : Tehni-Zen King's Collectors ! Tianaphung and 

 elsewhere in Jongri, frequent, King's Collectors! 



Stems simple 2-5 feet high, §— 1 in. thick at base ; flowers nodding, 3 in. in 

 diam. ; lower cauline leaves long-petioled ; sepals rather densely crinite but not or 

 sparsely stellate-pubescent ; petals broadly obovate-oblong ; capsules ^-1 in. with 

 a slender style \— § in. long. 



The bibliographical relationship of this species to M. robusta and M. paniculata 

 has been already explained. From both it is readily distinguished by its dark 

 purple not yellow flowers, by its smaller capsnle with fewer valves and very dif- 

 ferent setae, and by its much longer slender style. Its association with M. robusta 

 has been due to both having rounded lobes of leaves and to the two having very 

 similar sepals. Its identification with M. paniculata has been the result of a mis- 

 apprehension on the part of Mr. D. Don who, of the two -Meconopsis collected by 

 Wallich in Nepal, has, contrary to M. de Candolle's explicit statement, selected the 

 many-valved one as the equivalent of the Prodromus species. Mr. G. Don has 

 attempted to overcome the difficulty thus created by treating these two Nepal 

 plants, the red and the yellow-fid., as conspecific. This is however impossible for 

 the botanical relationship of If. napnulensis is, as Sir Joseph Hooker has clearly 

 shown, in the most recent notice of this species (Bot. Mag. t. 67fi0), with M. Wallichii. 

 It has many of the characters of th:it plant but besides having dark-red-, in place 

 of pale-blne-purple flowers it is easily distinguished by its leaves and sepals being 

 patently crinite with long hairs and by having very little, usually indeed none, 

 of the close stellate pabescence that characterises the leaves and sepals of M. 

 Wallichii where on the other hand there are none of the long hairs of M . napaulensis. 

 This species has only recently been successfully introduced into European Gardens, 

 plants having been reared by Mr. G. Wilson in his garden at Weybridge from seeds 

 sent by Dr. King. It may ultimately be satisfactorily proved that Sir Joseph 

 Hooker's suspicion, which the writer shares, that this and M. Wallichii are only 

 forms of one species, is correct. In that case the name M. Wallichii which has 

 become familiar in European horticulture will have to give way to the older name 

 if. napaulensis, which is at present, but quite erroneously, associated in European 

 gardens with Wallich's yellow-fid. species. In the meantime however it is more 

 satisfactory and less misleading to treat M. napaulensis and M. Wallichii as speci- 

 fically distinct. 



8. (6.) Meconopsis Wallichii Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4668 (1852); 

 Jard. Fleur. iii. t. 315 (1853) ; Bely. Eortic. iv. t. 18 (1854) ; Flore des 



