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Himalaya orientalis. Sikkim occidentals ; in pratis alpinis a finibus 
Nepaliae orientalibus prope, 10-12,000 p. s. m. 
This species is like M. integrifolia in having a scape-like stem with a cluster 
of sessile leafy bracts at the apex and generally two flowers there in addition to the 
terminal one. On the scape below the apical cluster there are usually a few scattered 
sessile leaves, occasionally in the axils of the highest of these are other flowers. 
M. grandis, however, differs from M. integrifolia in having a distinct style, purple 
not yellow flowers, coarsely toothed not entire leaves, and a sparsely not densely 
setose capsule. 
M. grandis is now quite established in a few European alpine gardens, more 
particularly at Edinburgh, where one old plant had, up to 1906, flowered in at least 
twelve successive seasons. Usually polycarpic. 
16 . Meconopsis simplicifolia, Walp. Caulis o ; folia integra vel 
remote dentata ; flores in scapis simplicibus i-floris singuli ; petala 6-8, 
coerulea ; stylus distinctus ; stigma latum. Walp., Rep., i. no (1842) ; 
Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. Ind. 252 (1855); Hook, f., 111 . Him. PI., t. 8 (1855) ; 
111 . Hortic.,iii. 114 (1856) ; Walp., Ann., iv. 170 (1857) ; FI. des Serres, xiii. 
t. 1324 (1858); Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. Brit. Ind., i. 118 (1872); Prain, 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 321 (1895); Flora and Sylva, iii. 84 (1905). 
Papaver simplici folium, D. Don, Prodr. FI. Nepal., 196 (1825). Stylophorum 
simplicifolium , Spreng., Syst., iv., cur. post. 203 (1827) ; G. Don, Gen. Syst., 
i. 135 (1831) ; Steud., Nomencl., ed. 2, ii. 650 (1841). 
Himalaya centralis orientalisque. Nepal, Sikkim, Chumbi, 
Bhutan ; in pratis alpinis, 12-16,000 p. s. m. Tibet australis. Khamba 
et Phari ; in pratis alpinis 14-15,000 p. s. m. 
In habit and general appearance M. simplicifolia agrees with M. pseudoin- 
tegrifolia , as regards fruit it agrees with M. grandis. To the latter species it bears 
somewhat the relationship that the former bears to M. integrifolia. The species 
has long been well known in European alpine gardens. Apparently always mono- 
carpic. 
17 . Meconopsis quintuplinervia, Regel. Caulis o ; folia integra ; 
flores in scapis simplicibus i-floris singuli, nutantes ; petala 4, purpurea ; 
stylus distinctus; stigma latum. Regel, Gartenfl., xxv. 291, t. 880, figs, 
b, c, d (1876); Maxim., FI. Tangut., 34, t. 23, fig. 27 (1889); Flora and 
Sylva, iii. 84 (1905). 
China OCCiDENTALis. Kansuh; in pratis alpinis, 9,500-11,000 p. s. m. 
Tibet boreali-orientalis. Amdo ; in pratis alpinis, 9,500-11,000 
p. s. m. 
This species is nearly allied to M. simplicifolia but differs somewhat in foliage, 
and more considerably in number and colour of petals, also in number of stamens 
which are here fewer and subbiseriate instead of several-seriate. The capsule 
