Mud nop sis and Cat hear Ha. 365 
M. Oliveriana , and with a distinct style. Not yet introduced into European gardens. 
Evidently perennial. 
27 . Meconopsis Oliveriana, Franch. & Praia. Rhizoma villosum ; 
folia ovato-oblonga segmentis ovatis lobis obtusis vel subobtusis, caulibusque 
sparse strigosa ; sepala glabra ; capsula anguste cylindrica stylo perbrevi. 
Franch. & Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Ixiv. 2. 312 (1895). 
China centralis et occidentalis. Hupeh ; in dumetis et umbrosis. 
Szechuen orientalis ; in dumetis 12,000 p. s. m. 
This species agrees in every character with M. chelidonifolia except as regards 
the fruit, which is in this species very like that of Cathcartia villosa , but only opens by 
short valves at apex, not all the way down as in a Cathcartia. Not yet introduced 
into European Gardens. Evidently perennial. 
The Chelidonifoliae include only two species, which are so much alike that they 
can only be distinguished by their ripe capsules. These, however, are so dissimilar 
that while one has a style and stigma such as is characteristic of the majority of the 
species in the genus, the other has a sessile stigma exactly like that of M. punic ea 
and M. integrifolia , or like that of Cathcartia villosa. In habit the two species are 
unlike any of the groups of Meconopsis except the Camhricae ; in this respect they 
agree with Cathcartia § Eucathcartia . The capsules, however, open by the short 
apical valves characteristic of Meconopsis. 
Species excludendae. 
Meconopsis betonicifolia, Franch., PI. Delavay., 42, t. 12 (1889). 
= Cathcartia betonicifolia, Prain. 
This species has been accurately described by Franchet loc. cit., and the question 
as to whether the generic position assigned to the plant by Franchet, or that suggested 
by the writer, be the correct one turns on the nature of the ripe fruit, which as yet is 
unknown. 
Meconopsis diphylla, DC., Syst. Veg., ii. 88 (1821). 
= Chelidonium diphyllum, Michx, FI. Bor. Am., i. 309 (1803). 
Meconopsis petiolata, DC., Syst. Veg., ii. 87 (1821). 
= Chelidonium diphyllum, Michx. 
2. CATHCARTIA. 
The genus Cathcartia was founded in 1851 by Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. 
Mag., t. 4596) to accommodate a yellow-flowered Himalayan Poppy 
collected by himself in Alpine Sikkim. The name perpetuates the memory 
of J. W. F. Cathcart, a member of the Indian Civil Service who, with the help 
of a native artist, prepared an important series of drawings of Sikkim 
plants. The validity of the genus has never been questioned, but its history 
during the past thirty years has been complicated by the reference to it of 
species that do not really belong. The first addition was suggested by 
