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4 . Meconopsis aculeata, Royle. Folia sparse aculeata lineari-oblonga 
lanceolatave irregulariter pinnatifido-lobata lobis varie lobulatis ; flores in 
cymas racemiformes dispositi, pedicellis fere omnibus bracteatis ; petala 4 ; 
capsula ovata stylo duplo longior ; torus vix ampliatus. Royle, 111 . Him., 
67, t. 15 (1839); Walp., Rep., i. no (1842) ; O’Shaughnessy, Beng. 
Dispens., 184 (1842) ; Beng. Pharm., 5 (1844) ; Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. 
Ind., 253 (1855) ; Walp., Ann., iv. 171 (1857) ; Klotzsch, Reis. Pr. Waldem., 
129 (1862) ; Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 5456 (1864); Stewart, Panjab Plants, 9 
(1869); Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. Brit. Ind., i. 118 (1872); Prain, Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng., Ixiv. 2. 314 (1895) ; Collett, Flor. Siml., 23 (1902) ; Flora 
and Sylva, iii. 82 (1905) ; Strachey, PI. Kumaon, 8 (1906). M. Gulielmi- 
Waldemari , Klotzsch, Reis. Pr. Waldem., 129, t. 36 (1862). M. napaulensis , 
Jacquem. ex Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Ixiv. 2. 314 (1895) ; Falc. ex 
Prain, loc. cit. (1895). M. nepalensis , Honigberger, Thirty-five Years in 
the East, ii. t. 15 (1852). Stylophorum nepalense , Honigberger, Thirty-five 
Years in the East, ii. 352 (1852). 
Himalaya occidentalis. A Kumaon ad Kashmir usque ; in pratis 
alpinis, 10-15,000 p. s. m. 
Representative in the North-West Himalaya of the Tibetan M. horridula . Differs 
from M. rudis and M. horridula in the lobed leaves and narrow torus, from 
M. sinuata in the shorter capsule. Well known in cultivation and usually monocarpic. 
At Edinburgh plants have, however, flowered in three successive seasons ; at Kew one 
plant has flowered in two successive seasons. 
5 . Meconopsis sinuata, Prain. Folia sparse aculeata lineari-oblonga 
lanceolatave margine irregulariter lobata sinuatave lobis integris ; flores in 
cymas racemiformes dispositi, pedicellis fere omnibus bracteatis ; petala 4; 
capsula anguste obconica stylo 5-plo longior ; torus vix ampliatus, Prain, 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Ixiv. 2. 314 (1895) ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, 
ix. 1. 5. t. 6 (1901). 
Himalaya orientalis. In Sikkim et Bhutan ; in pratis alpinis, 
10-13,000 p. s. m. 
Representative in the Eastern Himalaya of the Tibetan M. horridula . Differs 
from M. rudis and M. horridula in the lobed leaves and narrow torus, from 
M. aculeata in the long capsule. Not yet known in cultivation. Probably mono- 
carpic. 
6. Meconopsis rudis, Prain. Folia sparse aculeata oblongo-lanceolata 
margine subintegra; flores in cymas racemiformes dispositi, pedicellis 
inferioribus bracteatis sum mis ebracteis ; petala 5-8 ; capsula ovata stylo 
duplo longior ; torus distincte ampliatus. M. racemosa , Franch., Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Fr., xxxiii. 390 (1886) ; PI. Delavay., 41 (1889) nec Maxim. M. 
horridula , var. rudis , Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Ixiv. 2. 314 (1895). 
M. sinuata , var, Prattip Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Ixiv. 2. 314 (1895). 
