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rhomboidea obtusa margine integra vel subtiliter repanda ; flores in scapis 
pseudoradicalibus singuli ; petala 5-8, interdum 4 ; capsula (matura ignota) 
oblonga ; stylus brevis. Franch. ex Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 
31 1 (1895). Cathcartia Delavayi, Franch., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., xxxiii. 390 
(1886) ; PI. Delavay., 42 (1889). 
China occidentalis. Yunnan ; in pratis alpinis, 12,500 p. s. m. 
This species is also nearly related to the preceding three forms, but differs from 
all of them in regard to its foliage. Not yet introduced to European gardens. 
Apparently monocarpic. Though very nearly glabrous, a few simple hairs are 
to be found on the scapes and on the leaves. 
The Primulinae form quite as natural a group as the Aculeatae , to which they 
are most nearly allied, and with which they have already been contrasted. Here, 
again, it is an open question whether the forms that compose the group are really 
distinct species. It has been shown that there is room for suspecting that M. Henrici 
and M. lancifolia may only be different states of one species ; it may equally 
well transpire that M. primulina is merely an abnormal form of the same. If this 
can be proved the Primulinae will contain but two species, (1) M. lancifolia , including 
M. Henrici and M. primulina , with lanceolate leaves, and (2) M. Delavayi , with 
subrhomboid leaves. Apparently the species of this group flower in the year following 
sowing, the leaves dying down during the intervening winter. So far as is known 
they are monocarpic and die after flowering. 
If 5. Bellae , Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 3 . 321 (1895). Inermes; 
perennantes ; caules o ; folia pinnatisecta ; flores coerulei petalis 4-5 ; 
styli distincti ; capsula vertice circa basin styli subito quasi in discum 
angustum convexum astigmaticum explanata. 
12 . Meconopsis bella, Prain. Folia scapisque glabra vel minopore 
setosa, 2-3-secta lobulis parvis ; flores in scapis radicalibus singuli ; petala 
4, raro 5 ; capsula ovata vertice ultra valvarum apices circa basin styli 
solida ; stylus brevis. Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiii. 2. 82 (1894); 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 321 (1895) ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, 
ix. 1. 3, t. 4 (1901) ; Flora and Sylva, iii. 82. 166 (1905); Gard. Chron., 
ser. Ill, xl. 198, fig. 81 (1906). 
Himalaya ORiENTALis. Sikkim occidentalis, a finibus Nepaliae 
orientalibus prope, in rupibus alpinis, 12-14,000 p. s. m. 
A very distinct species ; polycarpic ; the leaves persist during the winter months. 
There is no disk, but the tips of the valves do not quite extend to the base of the 
style, so that the top of the capsule is intermediate in appearance between that of 
a typical Meconopsis and that of a species of the Californian group Anomalae . 
Unlike the other species of the genus, which affect open alpine hillsides or occur 
among alpine scrub or on the edges of woods, M. bella appears restricted to more 
or less vertical cliffs into whose clefts the stout rootstocks grow horizontally. 
This species has for some years been in cultivation at Edinburgh and perhaps 
elsewhere. It has flowered at Edinburgh this year (1906) for the first time. 
