J895.] D. Prain — Some additional Papaveraceas. 321 



shorter, has also 1—2 scattered leaves below and a whorl of 5-8 bracts with 2—3 

 axillary as well as a terminal flower above, bat which differs in having all the leaves 

 entire, in having yellow in place of dark purple flowers, and in having a very short 

 style with a rather larger stigma. Of the two, M. integrifolia is perhaps the more 

 beautiful species ; both must prove, when ultimately introduced, great acquisitions 

 to European horticulture. M. grandis seems to be confined to the district of Jongri 

 but is very plentiful there. 



11. ( — .) Meconopris simplicifolta Walp. Bep. i. 110 (1842) ; 

 S.f. Sf T. Flor. Lid. 252 (1855) ; Hook, f., Til. Him. PI. t. 8 (1855) ; 

 Ml. Hortic. iii. 114 (1856); Walp. Ann. iv. 170 (1857) ; Flore des Serves 

 xiii. t. 1324 (1858) ; Flor. Brit. Did. i. 118 (1872). Papaver simplicifol- 

 iurn D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 196 (1825) Stylophorum siinplicifolium 

 Spreng. Syst. iv. cur. post. 203 (1827) ; G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 135 (1831). 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8125. 



The species most nearly related to M. simplicifoKa is M. quintuplinervia Regel 

 [Gartenfi. (1876) 291. t. 880, f. b. c. 8f d. ; Maxim. Flor. Tangut. 34. t. 23. f. 27 (18S9j] 

 from Northern Tibet and Kansn. M. quintuplinervia differs from the Himalayan 

 species in having entire leaves, filaments sub-2-seriate those of the outer rather 

 shorter series being moreover slightly ddated upwards. A second closely allied 

 species is M. punicea Maxim. [Flor. Tangut. 34. t. 23. f. 12-21 (1889)] which also 

 differs from M. simplicifolia in having entire leaves but is further easily distin- 

 guished from both M. simplicifolia and M. quintuplinervia by having much longer 

 and narrower petals and by having a short globose ovary with a much larger almost 

 sessile stigma. 



§ 5. Bella?. Stemless ; scapes, leaves, sepals and ovaries glabrous, 

 stigmas small capitate; leaves 2-'3-p innatijid all radical numerous persisting, 

 ■flowers sub-PapaveroiJ , i.e. petals 4 or 5. 



12. ( — .) Mkconopsis Bella Drain, Joum. As. Soc. Deng, lxiii., pt. 

 2, 82 [Novicise Dulicse vii. 71] (1894). 



This species is, as already mentioned in this work, very distinct from any 

 hitherto reported Meconopsis and represents a group not very closely related to any 

 of the preceding. This also, when ultimately introduced, must prove a great 

 acquisition to European horticulture. 



4. (— .) RCEMERIA Medik. 

 Annual herbs with yellow juice ; leaves petioled pinnatipartite 

 with multifid lobes ; flowers in cym.es> on slender leaf-opposed pedicels ; 

 sepals 2, petals 4 violet-purple, with a dark basal eye ; stamens nu- 

 merous ; ovary linear, stigmas 2-4-lobed sessile; ra}^s opposite the 

 many-ovuled placentas. Capsules elongated* 3-1-valved, 1-loculai*, 

 dehiscing throughout their length; seeds scrobiculafce, without crests. 

 Species 2; Mediterranean and Oriental. 



Key to the hidian Species. 

 * Capsule uniform, setose ; filaments filiform ... 1. R. hybrida. 



* * Capsule narrowed upwards, glabrous j filaments dilated 2. H. ref facta. 



