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99823 to 100103— Continued. 



99936. Meconopsis rvdis Prain. 



F. 30079. An annual alpine plant 2 to 3 feet 

 high, native to southwestern China at altitudes 

 between 13.000 and 15,000 feet. The stems and 

 leaves are covered with straw-colored spreading 

 spines, the nearly entire leaves are oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, and the bright-blue flowers, in racemes 



2 to 3 inches across, have numerous stamens 

 with blue filaments and yellow anthers. 



S9937. Meconopsis speciosa Prain. 



F. 30103. An alpine perennial up to 3 feet 

 high, with spiny oblong-lanceolate leaves and 

 light-blue flowers 2 inches across in racemose 

 10- to 15-flowered cymes. Native to Yunnan. 



99935 and 99939. Meconopsis venusta Prain. 



A charming alpine biennial with deep-purple 

 to wine-colored flowers with orange anthers and 

 roundish petals an inch long. The numerous 

 scapes are 6 to 8 inches high, and the oblong- 

 ovate leaves are in a basal rosette. Native to 

 Yunnan. 



99938. F. 30078. 93939. F. 30114. 



99940. Meconopsis sp. 



F. 30086 (near M. lepida). 



99941. Meconopsis sp. 



F. 30110 (near M. lancifolia) . 



99942. Meconopsis sp. 



F. 30117 (near M. lancifolia). 



99943. Meconopsis sp. 



G. F. 144. 



99944. Neillia sinensis Oliver. Rosaceae. 



Tube neillia. 



F. 30475. A shrub 4 to 6 feet high, native to 

 central China. The ovate leaves, 2 to 3 inches 

 long, are incised-serrate and usually lobed, and 

 the tubular pink flowers, less than an inch long, 

 are in terminal racemes 2 to 3 inches long. 



99945 to 99962. NoMOCHAPvisspp. Liliaceae. 



99945. Nomocharis aperta (Franch.) Smith 

 and Evans. 



F. 30148. An erect alpine plant about a foot 

 high, with a slender rhizome and small lanceo- 

 late leaves, often ternate at the upper end of the 

 stem. The pink flowers, purplish punctate 

 within, are at first nodding, then erect. Native 

 to high altitudes near Tali, Yunnan. 



99946. Nomocharis euxantha Smith and 

 Evans. 



F. 30155. A bulbous alpine plant 6 to 15 inches 

 high, with linear-lanceolate leaves over an inch 

 long and solitary nodding fragrant golden- 

 yellow flowers spotted with purple. Native to 

 western China. 



99947. Nomocharis henrici (Franch.) Wilson. 



F. 30158. A lilylike plant with a slender stem 



3 feet or more high with scattered linear-lanceo- 

 late, long-pointed leaves and axillary flowers 2 

 inches long, with a white or pinkish bell- 

 shaped perianth, dusky red at the base. Na- 

 tive to Yunnan. 



99948 to 99953. Nomocharis lophophora (Bur. 

 and Franch.) Balf. f. 



A bulbous plant with ovate to lanceolate 

 leaves about 3 inches long and yellow some- 

 what lilylike flowers, often red punctate, borne 

 singly on a scape 6 to 12 inches high. 



For previous introduction see 95384. 



99948. F. 30139. 



99949. F. 30163, 

 speckled. 



99950. F. 30164. 



99951. F. 30165. 



99952. F. 30182. 



99953. F. 30170. 



99823 to 100103— Continued. 



99954 to 99957. Nomocharis mairei Leville. 



A white-flow T ered, lilylike plant scarcely 2 

 feet high, with ovate verticillate leaves. Na- 

 tive to southwestern China. 



99954. F. 30142. 99956. F. 30149. 



99955. F. 30171. 99957. F. 30169. 



99958. Nomocharis meleagrina Franch. 



F. 30154. A large bulbous lilylike plant several 

 feet high, native to the mountains of Szechwan. 

 The linear-lanceolate leaves are long stemmed, 

 and the rosy, brown-spotted flowers, 3 inches 

 across, are on peduncles 6 inches long. 



99959. Nomocharis nana (Klotzsch) Wilson. 



F. 30152. A Himalayan lily about 6 inches 

 high, with grasslike leaves 3 inches long and a 

 small white nodding flower over an inch across. 



99960 and 99961. Nomocharis pardanthina 

 farreri W. E. Evans. 



A plant about 2 feet high, with whorls of dark- 

 green lanceolate leaves and from 1 to 10 rose- 

 pink to white flowers of variable shade, color, 

 and spotting. Native to alpine slopes among 

 dwarf bamboos in Upper Burma. It differs 

 from the type in having fimbriate inner peri- 

 anth segments. 



99960. F. 29815. 



99961. F. 29942. 



99962. Nomocharis sp. 

 F. 384. Closely related to iY. saluenense. 



. OSBECKIA CAPITATA Benth. 



ceae. 



Melastoma- 



F. 30952. A perennial herb 1 to 2 feet high, na- 

 tive to India. The cordate to ovate leaves, 1 

 inch long, are hairy on both sides, and the mauve 

 flowers, 1 inch across, are in heads. 



99964. Peranthasp. Gesneriaceae. 



F. 30612. The peranthas are perennial herbs 

 with the leaves all in a basal rosette and yellow 

 flowers on a pilose peduncle. Three species are 

 known from Yunnan— P. minor, P. forrestii, and 

 P. cordatula. 



99965. Philadelphia delavayi L. Henry. 

 Hydrangeaceae. Mockorange. 



F. 30619. A shrub 15 to 20 feet high, native to 

 Yunnan. The remotely serrate ovate leaves, 2 to 

 4 inches long, are dark green above and gray 

 tomentose beneath. The very fragrant flowers, 

 nearly 2 inches across, have a violet-purple calyx 

 and white petals slightly tinged with purple on 

 the outside, and are borne in racemes. 



99966. Photinia prionophylla (Franch.) C. K. 

 Schneid. Malaceae. 



F. 30474. A shrub 3 to 4 feet high, with the 

 habit of Photinia arbutifolia. The branches are 

 white tomentose, the obovate leathery shining 

 green leaves are about 3 inches long, and the small 

 flowers are in corymbose cymes. Native to 

 southwestern China. 



99967. Polygonum calostachyum Diels. Poly- 

 gonaceae. 



F. 30451. An alpine plant 1 to 2 feet high, with 

 elliptic papery long-petioled basal leaves 2 to 3 

 inches long, shorter-petioled stem leaves, and deep 

 crimson flowers. Native to moist mountain 

 meadows at 10,000 feet altitude in southwestern 

 China. 



99968 to 99974. Potentilla spp. Rosaceae. 



99968. Potentilla fruticosa L. 



Shrubby cinquefoil. 



F. 30442. A pale form. 



