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this species. This handsome form is now thoroughly established in European 
alpine gardens, where it always is monocarpic. 
14 . Meconopsis pseudointegrifolia, Prain. Caulis o ; folia integra ; 
flores in scapis simplicibus i-floris singuli ; petala 5-8, lutea ; stylus 
distinctus sursum incrassatus ; stigma latum (PI. XXV). M. integrifolia , 
Bulley in Flora and Sylva, iii. 80 c. ic. (1905) nec Franch. 
Tibet australi-occidentalis. Kham ; in pratis alpinis, 11- 
1 2,000 p. s. m. 
Hirsuta pilis barbellatis plus minusve patentibus induta. Folia radicalia caespitosa 
12-20 cm. longa, lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata apice acuta margine integra, lamina 
1-2-5 cm. lata in petiolum brevem basi plus minusve vaginatum sensim attenuata,utrin- 
que viridia, laxe hirsuta. Caulis o. Flores maiusculi pedunculis i-floris simplicibus 
12-20 cm. longis laxe hirsutis. Sepala 2, oblonga, extus hirsuta, 3-5 cm. longa, 
2 cm. lata. Petala saepissime 8, lutea, ovato-oblonga, 4*5-9 cm. longa, 2-8 cm. 
lata, utrinque glabra. Stamina 00, 3-4-seriata, filamentis glabris gracilibus discretis. 
Ovarium e carpellis 4 compositum, dense hirsutum ; stylus terminalis glaber *8-i cm. 
longus, sursum plus minusve incrassatus stigmate 4-lobo terminali lobis radiantibus 
divaricatis coronatus ; placentae parum intrusae ; ovula plurima. Capsula matura 
adhuc ignota. — Kham ; in valle fl. Ra-chu, a fontibus fl. Mekong prope, in lat. 29 0 30' 
bor., Ion. 97 0 30' orient. 
The description given is that of a plant presented to Kew by Mr. A. K. Bulley; 
this plant flowered in the Rock Garden at Kew in May, 1906. The drawing (PI. 
XXV) was made by Miss M. Smith from this plant. Another example of the same 
species flowered at Neston in 1905. and was figured in ‘Flora and Sylva.’ These 
plants were raised from seed received by Bulley from the Imperial Botanic Garden, 
St. Petersburg. The seeds were sent to St. Petersburg by Captain Koslov from 
south-eastern Tibet, from the valley of one of the headwaters of the Mekong. 
In colour of petals, and in shape and degree of tomentum of leaves, this much 
resembles M. integrifolia. It differs, however, from M. integrifolia in all the scapes 
being simple, radical, and 1 -flowered, and in having a distinct style with a narrower 
stigma. The difference in habit between M. pseudointegrifolia and M. integrifolia 
is paralleled in the case of M. simplicifolia and M. grandis. 
This species has not ripened seeds, at all events in England. Apparently 
monocarpic. 
15 . Meconopsis grandis, Prain. Caulis e rhizomate perennante scapi- 
formis versus apicem fasciculatim foliosus ; folia grosse paucidentata ; flores 
in cymas umbelliformes 3-floras dispositi, nonnunquam floribus 1-2 axil- 
laribus in parte caulis inferiore adiectis ; petala 6-9 fusco-purpurea vel 
nonnunquam intense coerulea ; stylus distinctus ; stigma latum. Prain, 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 320 (1895) ; Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, 
ix. 1. 2, t. 2 (1901); Gard. Chron., ser. Ill, xxxvii. 369, fig. 157 (1905)7 
Flora and Sylva, iii. 82 (1905). 
