320 D. PraLva—<&dme additional Papaveraceae. [No. 3, 



Botanique v. 19 (1891,] from Szechuen which has more numerous leaves^ also close- 

 set on a short stem and not truly radical, more numerous stouter scapes and rather 

 larger flowers th;it though nodding in bud are not nodding when full-blown. M. 

 Henrici has however a very different ovary which is depressed globose, strigose in 

 its upper half and considerably shorter than the style. In M. Franchet's species 

 the same peculiar grouping of the filaments of the outer series in flat phalanges 

 is also sometimes met with but there are no epaulettes of papillae on the capsule. 

 Another species in which the leaves and stems are exactly like those of M. prim- 

 itl inn is Meconopsis lancifolia Franchet, from Yunnan. This has a glabrous ovary 

 and short style and except in wanting the epaulettes and having a less deeply lobed 

 stigma hardlv differs from M. primal in a. The flowers too are almost identical but 

 instead of having a few flowers on long scapes, it has numerous flowers arranged in a 

 racemose cyme with the pedicels bractless as in M. horridula VAR. racemosa, while 

 the sepals are slightly and the stem and pedicels are rather densely strigose. 



Another Yunnan species of this group is Meconopsis Delavayi Franchet, of 

 which the fl< >wers arc exactly as in M lancifolia, M. Henrici and M. primulina but 

 which has solitary scales and crowded very long-petioled pseudo-radical leaves with 

 small spathulatc-hastate blades. 



§ 4. Grande- 1 . Stemless or with simple stems, leaves and sepals softly 

 hairy ; ovaries hispid i stigmas large capitate ridged ; leaves simple entire 

 (in the Chinese) or dentate (in the Indian species), radical very numerous 

 persisting, /■■inline, if present, few scattered below, whorled above; flowers 

 Banguinarioia i.e, with 5-e /"'tats. 



10. ( — .) Mecon'opsis graxdis Train ; softly hairy, radical leaves 

 tufted numerous ovate-laticeolate coarsely serrate, tapering into a long 

 petiole ; cauline leaves shortly petioled or sessile ; flowers large very 

 deep blue ; ovary snbcyliudrie sparingly covered with barsli spreading 

 ultimately subdeciduous hairs ; placentas 5, slightly intruded; style J 

 the length of ovary ; capsule linear-oblong. 



SikKiM : jongrr, in Western Sikkim, very common at 10-12,000 

 feet, King's Collectors ! Watt n. 54S5 ! G. A. Gammie ! 



Rootstock stout, clothed with sheaths, neck villous ; radical loaves 3|-7 in. by 

 1-2 in. with petioles 6-9 in. long ; stem 1 i — 3 ft. high leafy, leaves passing into bracts 

 the lower 1-3 scattered, the upper 3-5 collected in a whorl, lowest shortly petioled 

 vacant, the next 1-2 with axillary flower-buds : bracts of the whorl snbequal 5-6 in. 

 by 3 in. with 1-2 axillary flowers ; main axis terminating in a 1-fld. scape extend- 

 ing 6—18 in. beyond whorl ; sopals 2 hairy, petals 5-7 imbricate, buds 1| in., flowers 

 5 in. diam. ; stamens oo ; capsules 2.V in. long, seeds rugose. 



This one of the finest species of Meconopsis in the Himalayas, is evidently, in 

 6p : te of its great difference of habit, very closely allied to M. simplicifolia with which 

 it agrees iu having tufted coarsely dentate radical leaves and of which it has exactly 

 the capsules and the seeds. It is also nearly related to Meconopsis integrifolia 

 Franchet [Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxiii. 3S9 (18S6) et Plant. Delavay 41 (1889); 

 Maxim. Flor. Tangvt. i. 35 t. 9. f. 7-12 et t. 22. f. 23-25 (1889) : Cathcartia integri- 

 folii Maxim Bull. Ac. Imp. Pctersb. xxiii. 310 et Mel. Biol. ix. 713 (1876) ; Forbes 8f 

 Tlemsl. Joiim. Linn. Soc. xxiii. [Ind. Sinens. i.) 31 (1886)] which agrees with 

 M. grandis in haviug tufted radical leaves and in having a stem that, though 



