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Lonicera sp. (F 372). — A stiff little bush of 4 feet, collected in late 
autumn in the coppice above Mo-Ping, where it was remarkable 
for the brilliance of its crimson-scarlet berries arranged in twins 
or fours along the rigid sprays. 
Lonicera sp. (F 373) is a dim black-fruited species not distributed. 
Lonicera sp. (F 374) is possibly the same as F 269, which was col- 
lected by Purdom. I got it in the gorges behind Siku — a tall, 
flat-sprayed, elegant bush, with orange berries in fours along 
the axils of the applanate foliage. 
Lonicera sp. (F 375) is a stiff shrub of 5 feet, with pedicelled crimson 
fruits like wee cherries from beside the Mill-house at Da-hai-go 
in the Satanee Alps. 
Lonicera sp. (F 376) is an ugly, graceless bush from Chago. 
Lonicera sp. (F 379) (label a little uncertain) is probably the Lonicera 
from the grave-copses of Kwanting, which is so close to F 372, 
but that this is quite a little round-headed tree of 15-20 feet, 
all aglow with glossy, blood-red berries in the autumn. Perhaps 
the numbers may have to be transposed. 
Lonicera sp. (F 380) is quite uncertain, being seed collected by a 
Chinese in the Tibetan Alps opposite J6-ni. 
Lychnis sp. (F 265) abounds in hedgerows and waysides down the 
Nan Ho Valley and even across the Blackwater, and up to some 
7,000 feet in the foothills of Thundercrown. It is like a gigantic 
Ragged Robin of 2-5 feet, making a lovely haze of rose amid 
the pale-blue swathes of Adenophora, with Lilium iigrinum 
flashing out in blots of orange fire. 
Meconopsis. — The two following Poppies are both clearly new since 
Fedde's monograph in the " Pflanzenreich," and I cherish hope 
accordingly that one certainly, and both probably, may prove 
to be distinct new species. Both are biennial, both belong to 
the Primulina group, both stand at the Delavayi end of that 
group, and both appear to be of very limited range. 
Meconopsis lepida sp. nov. (F 123) inhabits the upper alpine banks and 
ledges on Thundercrown, markedly preferring the cooler westerly 
aspects. It is not found in the open turf, but often occurs at its 
fringes round the base and up the gullies of little limestone out- 
crops in the huge grassy flanks of the mountain at 12,500 feet, 
not steadily abounding, but appearing in sporadic outbursts. 
It is a most lovely little biennial of some 4-6 inches, with all 
the narrow, rather glaucous foliage at the base, and the naked 
stem carrying from one to six large flowers, made up of some 
six to eleven rhomboidal petals of lavender-purple silk, arranged 
in a whirling Catherine-wheel round the creamy, crowded boss 
of anthers. These flaunt their frail and filmy loveliness in June ; 
unfortunately by the end of August the seed was so unanimously 
fallen that barely enough could be collected for distribution in 
even the smallest quantities. However, it should germinate 
well, and must then be copiously raised again ; nothing more 
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