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Pram . — A Review of the genera 
perennantes succo flavo. Folia lobata crenatave. Flores longe pedunculati 
in cymas paucifloras racemiformes vel singuli caulem terminantes dispositi, 
speciosi, alabastris nutantibus. 
Species 4, quarum 3 in Himalaya oriental!, 1 in China austro-occi- 
dentali crescunt. 
Genus in sectiones naturales 2 commode dividitur ; scil. : — 
§ Eucathcartia. Pilis setisve barbellatis densius indutae ; flores lutei ; stylus 
subnullus ; stigmatis lobi radiantes divaricati. 
§§ Cumminsia. Pilis simplicibus sparse obsitae ; flores coerulei vel purpura- 
scentes ; stylus distinctus ; stigmatis lobi decurrentes contigui. 
Clavis specierum. 
Flores lutei, maiusculi; stamina 32 ; stigma depresso-dilatatum lobis radiantibus 
divaricatis ; folia dense villosa 1. villosa. 
Flores purpurei vel coerulei ; stigma clavatum lobis decurrentibus contiguis ; folia 
sparse hirsuta : — 
Folia ovato-lanceolata; petala margine integra : — 
Flores majusculi ; petala rotundata, obtusa; stamina 64 2 . betonicifolia. 
Flores minores ; petala ovato-lanceolata, acuta ; stamina 16 3. polygonoides 
Folia integra hastata, vel lobata lyrato-pinnatifida ; flores minores ; petala ovato- 
lanceolata obtusa apice subfimbriata ; stamina 16 4. lyrata. 
§ I. EUCATHCARTIA. Herbae dense pilis setisve barbellatis villosae ; 
folia radicalia plurima cordata lobata ; flores lutei ; capsula anguste cylin- 
dracea ; stylus subnullus ; stigma depresso-dilatatum lobis divaricatis 
radiantibus. 
1 . Cathcartia villosa, Hook. f. Folia molliter villosa, radicalia plurima, 
cordata 3-5-lobata lobis plus minusve incisis; flores maiusculi lutei in cymas 
racemiformes paucifloras caulem terminantes dispositi, pedicellis axillaribus ; 
stamina 32 ; capsula anguste cylindracea ; stylus subnullus ; stigma latum 
depresso-dilatatum ; semina scrobiculata raphe cristata. Hook, f., Bot. Mag., 
t. 4596 (1851) ; FI. des Serres, vii. t. 686 (1851) ; Lem., Jard. Fleur., ii. t. 
1 67 (1852) ; Hook. f. & Thoms., Flor. Ind., 254 (1855) ; Hook, f., 111 . 
Him. PL, frontisp. (1855); Walp., Ann., iv. 175 (1857); Hook. f. & 
Thoms., Flor. Brit. Ind., i. 119 (1872) ; Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxiv. 
2 - 325 ( l8 95 )- 
Himalaya orientalis. Nepal orientalis et Sikkim ; in pratis 
alpinis, 10-12,000 p. s. m, 
Habit of Meconopsis Oliveriana and M. chelidonifolia , but more hairy, with more 
numerous radical leaves, much larger flowers, and a capsule in shape like that 
of Meconopsis Oliveriana but larger, and with the valves separating to the base. 
§ II. CUMMINSIA. Herbae sparse pilis simplicibus hirsutae ; folia 
radicalia saepissime pauca margine crenata vel lyrata lobata ; flores purpurei 
