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species came from the Sikkim Himalaya, and although Sir W. Hooker 
identified with it one of Wallich’s Nepalese Meconopses , it happens that this 
particular species, which Hooker termed M. Wallichii , has not yet been 
reported from Nepal and never was collected or seen by Wallich. The 
next addition to the genus was made in 1855 (FI. Ind., 251-4) by Hooker 
and Thomson, who then dealt with and accounted for all but one of the 
unnamed Meconopses issued by Wallich in 1830, and described two new 
species, making seven for the Himalaya and ten for the whole genus. Of 
these new species, one (M. robustci) was already, though without a name, in. 
Wallich’s collection, the other (M. horridula ) was not. No further additions 
were made to the genus till 1876, when Regel (Gartenfh, xxv. 291) described 
M. quintuplinervia , the first species to be reported from China. In the 
same year Maximowicz described two others from China and North-East 
Tibet (Mel. Biol., ix.), though one of these appears to be no more than 
a form of the Himalayan M. horridida ; the other (M. integrifolia ) 
Maximowicz treated in the first instance as a Cathcartia. To these Chinese 
species Franchet in 1886 added two (M. Delavayi and M. lancifolia ), which 
he treated as species of Cathcartia ; Maximowicz in 1889 added a fifth 
(M. punicea ), and Franchet in 1891 added two more (M. Henrici and 
M. chelidonifolia). In 1894 the writer described the Himalayan M. bella y 
thus bringing the total for the Himalaya to eight, and for the whole genus 
to eighteen. In the following year the writer dealt with four additional 
Himalayan species (M. primulina , M. sinuata , M. superba , and M. grandis) 
and with another Chinese species (M. Oliveriana ), bringing the Himalayan 
species up to twelve, the Chinese to eight, and the total for the genus to 
twenty-three. Another Himalayan species and three more Tibetan or 
Chinese species have now to be reported, raising the total number of 
distinguishable forms to twenty-seven. 
Morphology. 
The Himalayan species of the genus have already received some 
attention on the writer’s part 1 , and in dealing with these incidental reference 
has been made to some of the Chinese ones. The necessity that has arisen 
for the preparation of descriptions of the four additional species just 
mentioned calls for further discussion of the genus as a whole, and the 
present opportunity is taken of enumerating and reviewing all the species. 
A typical Meconopsis such as the Welsh Poppy, M. cambrica , Vig., 
on which the genus was founded, or the blue Sikkim Poppy, M. Wallichii , 
Hook. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 6), is easily distinguished from a true Papaver , like 
P. somniferum y Linn., or P. dubium y Linn. (PL XXIV, Figs. 1, 2). In both 
genera, as is shown in PL XXIV, drawn by Miss M. Smith, the ripe 
1 Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Ixiii. 2, 81-2 (1894), and lxiv. 2, 309-21 (1895); Ann. Roy. Bot. 
Card. Calcutta, ix. 1, 2-5, tt. 2-6 (1901) ; Gard. Chron., ser. Ill, xxxvii. 369-70 (1905). 
