1895.] D. Prain— Some additional Papaveracete. 305 
t t Stem leaves clasping; plants glabrous and glaucous; 
(capsules glabrous) :— 
J Capsules obovate-oblong, sessile ; filaments subu¬ 
late ; small plants 6-12 in. high ... ... 7. P. Decaisneu 
£ £ Capsules globose, stalked; filaments dilated up¬ 
wards ; tall plants 2-4 feet high ... ... 8. P. somniferum. 
The genus Papaver is hardly an Indian one ; P. somniferum is only known as 
a cultivated plant while, except in a cultivated form, P. Rhoeas is hardly known 
in India. P. hybridum is a species widespread in the Mediterranean and Oriental 
regions ; P. pavoninum , P. turbinatum, P. Decaisnei 'are three species common in 
the Orient (Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan) : all four 
species are therefore Indian only because, along its extreme north-west border, the 
Indian Empire includes a fringe of their natural geographical area. Of the remain¬ 
ing two the Alpine species, P. nudicaule, occurs only in the Hindu-Kush and 
Karakoram and is thus not even truly Himalayan, while the temperate species 
P. dubium is a mere corn-field weed. Even that is limited to the North-West 
Himalaya, where it occurs in a form which extends from Southern Russia through 
all the intermediate countries to the area indicated. 
l. (i.) Papaver nudicaule Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i., i. 507 (1753). 
Var. rubro-aurantiacum Fisch. ex JDG. Syst. Veg. ii. 70 (1821) ; 
Sims , Bot. Mag. t. 2344 (1822); j DO. Prodr. i., 118 (1824). P. cro- 
ceum Ledeb., Flor. Altaic, ii. 271 (1830). P. alpinum var. croceum 
Fiscli. 8f Mey. Ind. Sent . iii, 44 (1837); Ledeb., Flor. Boss, i., 87 (1842). 
P. nudicaule var. croceum JSlkan , Monogr. Papav. 17 (1839); Walp. 
Bep. i. Ill (1842). P. nudicaule H. f. 8f T., Flor. Ind. 249 (1855) 
Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 107 (1867); H. f. & T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 117 
<1872). 
All the Indian wild specimens are referable to this particular variety which 
has orange-yellow flowers, dark coloured hairs on the scapes and dark-coloured 
setae on the capsules. The geographical area of this variety extends from 
Afghanistan, Northern Kashmir and Western Tibet, through Soongaria and along 
the Altai range to Mongolia and Northern China. 
A remarkably fine cultivated form of this plant is to be found in gardens in 
South-Eastern Tibet and in the Chumbi valley. The flowers are sometimes over 
3 inches in diam. and though occasionally yellow, are usually dark purple and 
look very much like those of P. Rhoeas. Some of the Tibet specimens are partial¬ 
ly double-flowered : these were collected in the province of Tsang and communica¬ 
ted to Calcutta by the Lama Ujyen Gtyatsko. The Chumbi specimens were obtain¬ 
ed by one of Dr. King’s Lepcha collectors. It is somewhat remarkable that we 
■have never yet succeeded in obtaining seeds of this plant which might be known 
as P. nudicaule var. grandiflora. Apparently it does not occur in gardens in 
Sikkim. 
2. (2.) Papaver hybridum Linn. 
3. (—.) Papaver pavoninum SchrenJc ex Fisch. Sf Mey. in Euum. 
PI. nov. Schrenk 64 (1842); leaves pinnatipartite, segments oblong- 
