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D. Pram — Some additional Papaveraceoe. 
[No. 3, 
It is impossible to sustain the specific rank claimed for this form. In the 
northern and central portions of the area inhabited by the species the two forms 
come from adjacent districts. In Sikkim, the extreme southern limit of its 
geographical distribution, the two forms grow intermixed ; all our Calcutta gather¬ 
ings, as well as Hooker’s original ones, show transitions from the one to the other. 
[Var. rudis ; stems like those of var. racemosa but taller, thicker, 
hardly grooved and leafy at the base with the lower pedicels bracteate; 
leaves very thick with snbsinuate margins and very sparsely prickly 
as are the sepals and stems ; capsules small, hardly exceeding in diam. 
the much expanded torus. M. racemosa Franchet , Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 
xxxiii. 38 (1886) ; Plant Delavay. 41 (1889) vix Maxim. 
Yunnan : Li-kiang, Delavay ! 
This plant, united by M. Franchet with Mr. Maximowicz’ M. racemosa, certainly 
differs varietally in the points noted.] 
The suggestion made in the Flora Indica and again in the Flor. Brit. Ind. that 
M. horridula may after all be no more than an Alpine form of M. aculeata has not, 
so far, been supported by the collection of the necessary intermediate forms. On 
the contrary the facts of distribution among the members of the Aculeatx group 
point decidedly in the opposite direction. Although M. aculeata lias capsules re¬ 
markably like those of M. horridula its torus is not thickened, its leaves are widely 
dissimilar, its stem is leafy and its pedicels are bracteate. 
2. (3.) Meconopsis aculeata Boyle , III. 67. t. 15 (1839) ; Walp. 
Pep. i. 110 (1842) ; H.f.Sfl T. Flor. Ind. 253 (1855); Walp. Ann. iv. 
171 (1857); Klotzseh , Reis. Pr. Waldem. 129 (1862) ; Hook. Bot. Mag . 
t. 5456 (1864); H. f. 8f T. Flor. Brit. Lid. i. 118 (1872). M. Ghilielmi- 
Waldemari Klotzseh , Reis. Pr. Waldem. 129. t. 36 (1862) ; Walp. Ann. 
vii. 86 (1868). M. napaulensis Jacguem. MSS. in Herb. Paris; Falc . 
MSS. in Herb. Saharanpur; nee M. napaulensis DG. Wall. Gat. n. 8122 ! 
It is not possible to accord even varietal rank to the form figured and des¬ 
cribed by Klotzseh as M. Gulielmi-Waldemari. 
3. (—.) Meconopsis sinuata Prain ; prickly, stem leafy, leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, flowers pale blue-purple; capsules long narrowly 
obconic, sparsely prickly. 
Var. typica ; leaves obtuse with sinuate margins. 
Sikkim: Patang-la, Pey-kiong-la and Ney-go-la, King's Collectors! 
Jongri, G. Gammie! Bootan : Pichu Valley, Cummins! 
[Var. Prattii ; leaves subacute serrate or subentire. 
Szechuen : near Tachienlu, Pratt., n. 525 !] 
Rootstock stout, fusiform ; stems 1-3 ft. smooth except for the scattered prickles. 
Leaves 4-7 in., long petioled, upper cauline sessile. Cymes few-fld., flowers 2-3 in. 
diam., pedicels bracteate slender fastigiate in fruit, prickly; petals 4. Capsule 
H-H in. sparsely prickly, ultimately subglabrous ; style in.; stigma small. 
Seeds scabernlons hilum slightly crested. 
This species has much the habit of M. aculeata of which it appears to be in 
