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Prain. — A Review of the genera 
The Bellae as a group must be considered quite natural. Like the Primulinae , 
and still more like the Grandes in habit, this group differs from both in foliage. 
Sometimes more than two seasons elapse between seed and flower, and in this 
respect the group differs from the two groups mentioned. 
§ II. Polychaetia. Herbae inermes pilis vel setis barbellatis indumento 
stellato interdum interiecto plus minusve indutae ; capsula sensim in stylum 
attenuata vel stigmate sessili coronata, raro vertice circa basin styli in 
discum astigmaticum explanata ; stigma clavatum lobis decurrentibus con- 
tiguis vel depresso-dilatatum lobis radiantibus divaricatis. — Herbae saepius 
monocarpicae ; paucae tamen perennantes. Meconopsis § Stylophorum , 
DC. Prodr., i. 121 (1824) partim. Polychaetia , Wall. MSS. (gen.) ex 
Prain, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 316 (1895). 
If 6. Grandes , Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 320 (1895). Caules 
o vel raro simplices scapiformes ; folia integra vel subintegra plerumque 
vel omnia radicalia ; flores pauci in scapis simplicibus aphyllis singuli vel 
ad apicem scapi fasciculatim foliosi in cymas umbelliformes, 3-7-floras 
dispositi, petalis 6-9, rarissime 4 ; styli saepius distincti, nonnunquam 
obsoleti ; stigmata depresso-dilatata lobis radiantibus divaricatis ; capsula 
plus minusve appresse setosa in stylum sensim attenuata vel subito in 
stigmatis plicaturas extensa. — Herbae plerumque monocarpicae, singula 
tamen plane perennans. 
13 . Meconopsis integrifolia, Franch. Caulis scapiformis versus apicem 
fasciculatim foliosus, raro obsoletus ; folia integra ; flores in cymas um- 
belliformes 3-7-floras dispositi, raro in scapo simplice i-floro flos singulus 
medianus ; petala 5-8 lutea ; stylus o; stigma latissimum (PI. XXIV, 
Figs. 7, 8). Franch., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., xxxiii. 389 (1886) ; PI. Delavay., 
41 (1889) ; Maxim., FI. Tangut., 35, t. 9, figs. 7-12, t. 23, figs. 22-25 (1889); 
Hemsl., Journ. Linn. Soc., xxxv. 164 (1902) ; Gard. Chron., ser. Ill, xxxvi. 
240 c. ic. (1904) ; Le Jardin, xviii. 328 (1904) ; Bot. Mag., t. 8027 (1905) ; 
Flora and Sylva, iii. 19 1 c. ic. (1905). Cathcartia integrifolia> Maxim., Bull. 
Acad. Petersb., xxiii. 310 (1876); Mel. Biol., ix. 713 (1876); Forbes & 
Hemsl., Journ. Linn. Soc., xxiii. 34 (1886). 
China OCCIDENTALIS. In Kansuh, Szechuen, et Yunnan ; in pratis 
alpinis, 13-15000 p. s. m. Tibet centralis. In valle Gooring, 16,500 
p. s. m. 
Hemsley has suggested that the Tibetan specimen from the Gooring Valley, 
originally identified by him as M. integrifolia , may not really belong to this species. 
Lipsky and the writer have, however, felt satisfied after further examination of 
the material that Hemsley's original determination is accurate, though the note 
that the flowers are ‘ blue ’ is a lapsus calami , for the petals in the specimen 
referred to are yellow. As Hemsley and Bulley have independently pointed out, 
the plant figured as M. integrifolia by Bulley in Flora and Sylva, iii. 83, is not 
