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D. Prain — Some additional Papaveraceic. 
[No. 3, 
linear incised-dentate sparingly hispid, filaments filiform, sepals hir¬ 
sute with a dorsal conical process under the tip; capsule ovate setose 
aculeate, stigma convex rays 4-6. 0. A. Mey. in Ind. Sem. ix. 35, 82 
(1843); Bunge, Bel. Bot. Lehm. 16 (1847); Stscheg. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 
(1854) i., 151 ; Trautv. Bull. Soc. Mosc. (1860) i. 91 ; Begel 8f Herder, 
Bull. Soc. Mosc. (1866) iii. 90; Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 216 (1867); 
Osten-Saclien & Rupr. Sert. Tianschan. 38 (1869) ; Regel Sf Herder , Bull. 
Soc. Mosc. (1870) ii. 248. P. hybridum Kar. Sf Kir. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 
(1842) i. 141 non Linn. P. cornigerum Stocks , Bond. Journ. Bot. iv. 
142 (1852): H. f. Sr T. Flor. Ind. 250 (1855); Walp. Ann. iv. 173 
(1857). 
Panjab: Peshawar, Vicar y! Stewart! Scinde: Stocks! British 
Beluchistan : near Quetta, Sanders! Duke! Lace ! Duthie ! Appleton ! 
Distrib. Throughout Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan and Soon- 
garia. 
Annual, stems slender sparingly branched ; leaves, flowers and habit very like 
those of P. hybridum; the capsules however are smaller while the horned sepals 
and the filiform filaments at once easily distinguish it. 
4. (3.) Papaver Rhieas Linn. Sp. FI. ed. i., i. 507 (1753). 
Var. typica ; stigmatic rays 8-12. 
This is an extremely rare plant in India; the only undoubted specimens the 
writer has seen were collected by Sir D. Brandis in Chamba, Panjab Himalaya 
(Brandis n. 4336!). Some specimens that may also be referable to genuine P. 
Rhoeas were collected in Kashmir by Dr. T. Thomson. These, however, in spite of 
the smaller number of their stigmatic rays, look more like a reversion to type, 
after “ escape, ” of the following variety, than like the European plant. 
Var. latifolia ; stigmatic rays 12-20. Papaver Rhoeas var. lati- 
folia Ham. Mss. in Wall. Gat. n. 8119 (1830). P. Hookeri Baker in 
Bot. Mag. cix. t. 6729 (1883). The Shirley Poppy: Journ. of Horlicult. 
(1886) p. 367, f. 55. 
Cultivated in Indian gardens from Scinde, Stocks! to the North- 
West Provinces, Royle! Falconer! Thomson ! King ! and Lower Bengal, 
Hamilton! Hooker! 
Annual, branched, 3-4 ft. high, covered with spreading hispid hairs; stem as 
thick as little finger at base, branches erect and ascending, flowering copiously ; 
jiowers 2-4 in. across; petals in unequal pairs, crenulate, pale rose to bright 
crimson, base wedge-shaped with diffused white to blue-black spot ; capsule |—f in. 
diam., shortly stalked, crenations of disk rounded overlapping. 
From this description, which applies to the cultivated plant, it will be seen 
that there is hardly room for doubt that we have here to deal with only a form 
of P. Rhoeas. The distinguishing botanical feature is the larger number of 
stigmatic rays ; on the strength of this character Mr. Baker has proposed specific 
rank for the plant. This it certainly does not deserve and from the existence of 
