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Meconopsis and Cathcariia. 
M. integrifolia , which extends from Yunnan to Kansuh and passes into 
central Tibet. In the subjoined table the facts of distribution are more 
succinctly shown. 
Geographical Distribution of tpie Species of Meconopsts. 
Species. 
W. Europe. 
Himalaya. 
Tibet. 
China. 
California. 
Kashmir. 
Kumaon. 
Nepal. 
Sikkim. 
Chumbi. 
Bhutan. 
<S. Tibet. 
C. Tibet. 
N. Tibet. 
Yunnan. 
Szechuen. 
Kansuh. 
Hupeh. 
Meconopsis cambrica . . . 
X 
,, keterophylla . . 
X 
,, crassifolia . . . 
X 
, , aculeata .... 
— 
X 
X 
,, sinuata .... 
— 
— 
— 
— 
X 
— 
X 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
_ 
— 
— 
, , rudis 
X 
X 
— 
_ 
— 
,, horridula . . . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
X 
X 
_ 
X 
X 
X 
— 
X 
X 
— 
— 
„ lancifolia . . . 
,, primulina . . . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
X 
X 
„ Delavayi . . . 
X 
,, bella 
,, integrifolia . . 
X 
- 
X 
X 
X 
- 
- 
,, pseudointegrifolia 
„ simplicifolia . . 
— 
— 
~ 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
, , quintuplinervia . 
,, punic ea .... 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
X 
— 
X 
— 
— 
— 
,, tor quota . . . 
,, discigera . . . 
,, superba .... 
,, paniculata . . . 
— 
— 
— 
X 
X 
X 
X 
„ robusta .... 
„ napaulensis . . 
— 
— 
— 
X 
X 
„ Wallichii . . . 
— 
— 
_ 
_ 
X 
X 
X 
_ 
— 
_ 
X 
_ 
_ 
_ 
,, chelidonifolia . . 
,, Oliveriana . . . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— ' 
— 
— 
X 
— 
X 
— 
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Meconopsis is very largely an alpine genus, there being only three 
species to which the term cannot be applied. These are the three that, by 
their distribution, are geographically furthest removed from the main body 
of the genus, viz. : — the West European M. cambrica , and the Californian 
M. keterophylla and M. crassifolia. These three are not even sub-alpine ; 
they do not occur above 2,500 feet. 
Of the Himalo-Chinese and Tibetan species, on the other hand, none 
come below 7,500 feet, and the only ones that ever appear to deserve being 
considered sub-alpine are M. robusta in Kumaon, M. Oliveriana in Hupeh, 
and M. quin tuplinervia in Kansuh. All three species named, however, 
also reach truly alpine altitudes. The great bulk of the genus is to be 
found only at or above 10,000 feet ; few of them indeed occur quite so low 
