1895.] D. Praiu— Some additional Pa paver acese. 819 



Serves, viii. t. 735 (1855) ; iff./. Sf T. Flor. Lid. 254 (1855) ; Waif. Ann. 

 iv. 171 (1857) ;H.f.8f T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 119 (1872) excluding in all 

 cases the citation "Wall. Cat. 8123/b and the Nepal locality. 



This is the pale-blue-fld. paniculate " Poppy " familiar to all travellers in 

 Sikkim. Dr. King's Collectors have brought it also from Chumbi (Sham-Chen) 

 and Dr. Cummins has sent specimens to Calcutta from Bootan (Dichu Valley) but 

 though it thus extends further to the east than the F. B. I. indicates it has not as 

 yet been collected in Nepal. The plant has long been cultivated in Europe, seeds 

 having first been sent home by Sir Joseph Hooker in 1848 and plants having been 

 reared at Kew by Sir William Hooker who figured and described the species. 

 Sir William identified with this the paniculate form of Dr. Wallich's yellow- 

 flowered Nepalese species which is often remarkably like this pale-purple-fld. plant, 

 until ripe fruit is obtained. There is however no possibility of confounding the 

 capsules of the two — those of Jf. Wallichii are smaller and narrower with 5-6 

 valves, with spreading rufous setae and a longer slender style ; the yellow-fld. plant 

 ha3 longer widely-ovate capsules with 8—3 1 valves, setae that are less patent and 

 that remain yellow throughout and a shorter style much thickened at the base. 

 One result of the identification of these two plants has been that the Meconopsis 

 named in Dr. Wallich's memory is one that he never collected or distributed. 



§3. Pjiraulinae. Stems very short simple, leaves and sepals glab- 

 rescent ; ovaries glabrous (in a Chinese species strigose at apex); stigmas 

 cleft or 2-lobed ; leaves simple entire, radical few vanishing, cauline nume- 

 rous close-set and pseudo-radical; flowers Sanguinarioid i, e. with 6-9 

 petals. 



9. ( — .) Meconopsis primulina Train; almost glabrous, stem 

 short leafy at the base only, leaves linear-oblong entire acute, radical 

 few spathulate, all narrowed into short petioles and very sparsely 

 strigose on both surfaces flowers on a terminal and one to two axillary 

 scapes pendulous dark violet-purple ; sepals 2 glabrous, petals 6-8 

 imbricate narrowly ovate with a distinct claw; stamens about 50, fila- 

 ments filiform as long as the ovary, anthers orbicular-ovate golden- 

 yellow ; ovary glabrous 4-carpelled narrowly ovate tapering into a 

 slender style \ as long ; stigmas 2-partite lobes oblong plano-convex, 

 outer convex surface 2-stigmatic. 



Bootan : Do-lep, King's Collectors ! Chumbi : Sham-Chen, Dungbool 



Rootstook fusiform 1—4 in. long, neck clothed with old sheaths ; leaves 1^— 2$- 

 in. by 5 in. ; central scape 7 in., lateral 3—1 in.; sepals J in., petals f in. long, \—\ 

 in. wide, inner narrower ; filaments of the outer series often united into petaloid 

 phylloaies with antheriferous fringe ; ovary f in. long, T 3 g- in. wide, placentas 

 far intruded and passing up the substance of the style as 2 pairs of approximated 

 traces, each trace bearing at the bnse of the style a projecting papilla laterally in- 

 clined so that the 4 papilla? are in 2 pairs alternate with placental traces and style 

 lobes and opposite the stigraatic cleft, outer stigmatic loops alternate with placentas. 

 The capsules though apparently full-grown are unripe. 



The nearest ally of this species is Meconopsis Henrici, Franchet [_Journ. de 



