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Meconopsis and Cathcartia , 
in this species is more closely covered with setae. By an oversight, the locality 
for this plant is given in the ‘ Index Kewensis ’ as Mandshuria ; this error has been 
copied in ‘ Flora and Sylva.’ No species of Meconopsis occurs in Mandshuria, and 
its true locality, Kansuh, is correctly given by Regel with the original description of 
this one. 
This species was introduced to European gardens in 1876 but, like M. pseudo - 
integrifolia , died down without ripening seeds. Apparently monocarpic. 
18 . Meconopsis punic ea, Maxim. Caulis o ; folia integra ; flores in 
scapis simplicibus i-floris singuli, penduli ; petala 4, rarissimo in speci- 
minibus cultis 8-9, punicea ; stylus o; stigma latissimum. Maxim., Fi. 
Tangut., 34, t. 23, figs. 12-21 (1889); Gard. Chron., ser. Ill, xxxvi. 289, 
fig. 130 (1904) ; Flora and Sylva, iii. 84 (1905). 
China occxdentalis. Szechuen ; in pratis alpinis, 12,000 p. s. m. 
Tibet boreali-orientalis. In valle Djao-chu. 
This species, like M. integrifolia , has a large sessile divaricately-lobed stigma, 
with no disk. It differs in having simple 1 -flowered scapes with very dark pink 
flowers, which are pendulous even when fully opened. Usually there are only 
4 petals ; the example figured in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ had, however, 8 to 9. This 
species is now fairly well established in alpine collections. Apparently monocarpic. 
The Grandes constitute a natural group different from the other groups of the 
section Polychaetia , but in habit resembling the Bellae and the Primulinae in the section 
Eumeconopsis. From all other groups, except a single species in the group Cheliaoni- 
foliae , they stand apart as regards the character of the stigma, the lobes of which are 
divaricately radiant instead of contiguously decurrent. M. grandis is unlike the 
other species of the group, and is somewhat exceptional in the genus as a whole, 
in being usually polycarpic ; all the others in cultivation have proved monocarpic. 
All the species appear to flower, as a rule, one year from seed, the leaves dying 
down during the intervening winter. As a rule also, plants of the monocarpic species 
that do not flower at the proper time die along with those that do flower ; under 
exceptional circumstances they may survive till another season and flower then. 
T 7. Torquatae , Prain. Caules elongati simplices scapiformes ; folia 
subintegra plerumque radicalia ; flores numerosi in cymas compactas 
subspiciformes dispositi ; styli distincti vel brevissimi ; stigmata oblonga 
vel clavata lobis decurrentibus contiguis ; capsula appresse setosa vertice 
circa basin styli disco glabro lobato coronata. 
19 . Meconopsis torquata, Prain. Folia plerumque radicalia margine 
integra vel subintegra ; flores brevissime pedicellati vel sessiles ; petala 
extus parce hirsuta; ovarii discus sinuatus et obtuse angulatus lobis integris ; 
stylus perbrevis stigmate ovato brevior (PI. XXIV, Fig. 11). 
Tibet australis. In pratis alpinis, 11,500 p. s. m. 
Hirsuta pilis patentibus aureo-fuscis basi glanduloso excepto barbellatis induta. 
Rhizoma an perennans ? vaginis numerosis foliorum anni praecedentis obsitum. 
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