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has been met with in cultivation. The plant is treated, in the passage referred 
to, as a form of M. nepalensis (i. e. of the plant here termed M. paniculata , not of 
the true red-flowered M. napaulensis), but no reference is given to the collection 
in which this white-flowered plant has existed, and no definite authority for the 
statement is quoted. In all probability M . superba, like the other members of 
the group Robustae , is monocarpic. 
22 . Meconcpsis paniculata, Prain. Folia radicalia sinuato-lobata raro 
pinnatifida, caiilina grosse dentata vel interdum parum lobata laxe pilis 
barbellatis simulac dense indumento stellato induta ; sepala laxe strigosa et 
dense stellato-tomentosa ; flores lutei, in cymas racemiformes dispositi ; 
capsula valvis 8-11 appresse setosa et dense stellato-tomentosa ; stylus brevis 
basi manifeste incrassatus. Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 316 (1895). 
M. napaulensis, W alp., Rep., i. no (1842) non DC. M. Wallichii , Hook. f. 
& Thoms., FI. Ind., 254 in parte (1855) ; Walp., Ann., iv. 171 in parte 
(1857); Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. Brit. Ind., i. 119 in parte (1872) — quoad 
exemplum sub Wall. Cat., 8123/b prolatum, non Hook. Papaver panicu- 
latum , D. Don, Prodr. FI. Nepal., 197 (1825) — quoad descriptionem sed syn. 
Meconopsis napaulensis excl. Stylophorum paniculatum, G. Don, Gen. Syst., 
i. 135 in parte (1831) et quoad exempla floribus luteis prolata tantum. 
N. nepalense , Steud., Nomencl., ed. 2, 630 in parte (1841). Polychaetia 
paniculata , Wall, ex Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 316 (1895). 
Himalaya centralis orientalisque. Nepal, Sikkim, et Bhutan; 
in pratis alpinis, 10-11,000 p. s. m. 
Hardly separable even as a variety from the next form, owing to the existence 
of numerous intermediates. 
Var. elata, Prain. Flores in cymas laxe paniculatas dispositi, caeterum 
typi. Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 2. 316 (1895). M. nipalensis , 
Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. Ind., 253 (1855) ; Hook, f., 111 . Him. PL, t. 9 (1855) ; 
Walp., Ann., iv. 171 (1857) ; Hook. f. & Thoms., FI. Brit. Ind., i. 118 
(1872) nec M. napaulensis , DC. M. nepalensis , Lem., 111 . Hortic., iii. 95 
(1856) ; Flora and Sylva, iii. 83 (1905), nec M. napaulensis , DC. M. Wol- 
lastonii , Regel, Gartenfl., xxv. 291 (1876) nomen tantum. 
Himalaya centralis orientalisque. Nepal et Sikkim ; in pratis 
alpinis, 10-11,000 p. s. m. 
This form is treated here as a variety, rather as a matter of convenience 
than of necessity. The two are easily distinguished in their extreme states ; they, 
however, pass insensibly into each other. By keeping them apart it is more 
easy to disentangle the confused synonymy that has resulted from the erroneous 
reduction by Don, to one of them, of De Candolle’s very different M. napaulensis. 
The species is familiar in European alpine gardens. Apparently always 
monocarpic. 
