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tlie Himala) 7 as and Tibet and occurring in Szecliuen and Yunnan; 
species 4-8, the group Robustse peculiar so far as is known to the central 
and Eastern Himalaya; species 9 belongs to the group Primulinse of 
which the remaining known members inhabit Szecliuen and Yunnan ; 
species 10 and 11 to the Grandes of which the three other known 
members occur in Kansu, North Tibet, Szecliuen and Yunnan; species 
11 is the only representative of a very distinct group the Belize. 
The genus includes 2 other groups not represented in India ; viz., 
the Ghelidonifolise with 2 Chinese and 1 Western European species and 
the Anomalse with 2 Californian species. 
Unlike Papaver, Meconopsis is a characteristically Himalayan genus since 12 
species, or nearly one-half of the known forms have been reported from the Himalay¬ 
an region. Only two occur in the Western Himalaya ; one, M. aculeata, extending 
from Garhwal and Knnawar to Kashmir, overlaps the eastern fringe of the area 
occupied by Papaver ; the other, If. robusta, which is perhaps only a condition, and 
certainly is at most the representative, of the more widely distributed M. parii- 
culata, is confined to Kamaon. It is only when we reach the region from Central 
Nepal eastward that we come upon the main body of the genus. In Central Nepal 
we find three species, M. paniculata. M. napaulensis and M. simplicifolia ; these we 
find in Eastern Nepal and Western Sikkim along with five other forms ; M. Walli- 
chii, which seems only a local manifestation of M. napaulensis; M. sinuata, a 
similar local manifestation of M. aculeata; M. grandis, a local manifestation of ilf. 
simplicifolia; M. horridula, a somewhat variable species widely extended through¬ 
out Tibet and Western China of which M. aculeata and M. sinuata alike appear to be 
derivates ; lastly, the exceedingly distinct M. bella. Somewhat farther east we come 
upon M. superba, a very handsome species that would however appear to be hardly 
more than a local representative of M. paniculata ; and M. primulina, a near ally, and 
perhaps only the local representative of a Szecliuen species, ilf. Henrici. 
The region which includes Western and Central China from Kansu to Yunnan 
and Hupeh is quite as rich in species as the explored Eastern Himalaya. In 
Kansu there are three species; M. quintuplinervia and M. punicea extending to 
Northern Tibet, and M. integrifolia exte; ding to Szechuen and Yunnan ; all three 
are near allies of the Sikkim M. simplicifolia. In Szechuen we find six ; one species, 
confined to the province, is M. Henrici nearly allied to the Himalayan M. primulina; 
another is a form of the Tibeto-Himalayan M. horridula; a third is apparently 
a form of the Sikkim If. sinuuta; a fourth is M. integrifolia already discussed ; the 
last two are species which are very distinct from the rest and which have no Hi¬ 
malayan representative, but which are very closely allied to each other; these are 
M. chelidonifolia , confined to Szechuen, and M. Oliveriana extending also to 
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Hupeh, In Yunnan, besides If. integrifolia and a form of the nearly ubiquitous 
M. horridula there are two species of the Primulinas group, M. lancifolia and M. 
Pelavayi. * These two species, originally tentatively referred by M. Franchet, 
in the absence of ripe fruit, to Cathcartia, are, as their distinguished author has 
* Meconopsis lancifolia Franchet MSS. in Herb. Paris. Cathcartia lancifolia 
Franchet Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxii. 391 (1886). Meconopsis Delavayi Franchet MSS. 
in Herb. Paris. Cathcartia Delavayi Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxii. 390 (1886). 
