1895.] 
D. Praia —Some additioyial Papaveraceae. 
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the Eastern Himalaya the representative form. It has however different leaves 
and a totally different capsule with a much smaller stigma. The plant here des¬ 
cribed as var. Prattii has leaves quite like those of M. horridula var. racemosa 
though of somewhat thinner texture. But besides having bracteate pedicels it 
differs in having an unexpanded torus and a much less eculeate ovary. The cap¬ 
sules of var. Prattii are unfortunately not yet ripe but they agree exactly with 
those of typical M. sinuata at a similar stage and are totally unlike those of M. 
horridula or M. aculeata at any stage. 
§ 2. Robustee. Tall often branching ; stems, leaves and sepals hir¬ 
sute or pubescent; ovaries setose; stigmas capitate ; leaves pinuatifid to 
-partite, radical many withering, cauline numerous all scattered', flowers 
Papaveroid, i.e., with 4 petals. 
4. (4.) Meconopsis roburta H. f. Sp T. Flor. Ind. 253 (1855) ; 
tall, glaucescent, glabrous or sparsely crinite with soft flexuous spread¬ 
ing hairs, leaves pinnatifidly lobed, lobes rounded acnte, tips of 
peduncles and sepals sparsely patently crinite; cymes simple, flowers 
sulphur yellow, margins of petals creimlate; capsule obovate-oblong 
8-11-valved, sparingly covered with adpressed sub-deciduous setae. 
Walp. Ann. iv. 171 (1857). M. nipalensis Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5585 
(1866) nec VC. etvixPL.f. Sp T. Flor. Ind. Sp Flor. Brit. Ind. M. 
robusta H. f. Sp. T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 118 (1872) in part; excluding 
the Nepal plant anl the citation Wall. Cat. 8121. Argemone mexicana 
Wall. Cat. 8126 E (1830) nec Linn. Wall. Cat. n. 8124! 
Western Himalaya : Kamaon, 8-10,000 ft. BlinJcworth in Wall. 
Cat. n. 8124 ! 8126 E ! and in a third specimen without number in the 
Wallichian type herbm. ! Hanik, Strachey and Winterbottom ! Chenab 
Valley, Stewart! Ellis n. 1362 ! 1471 ! near Mussoorie, King ! Pindi, 
Collett! Palang Cfadh, Byaus; above Ramri; and Galmar, 10-12,000 
ft., Futhie ! 
Stems simple or branched 4-6 ft high almost 2 in. thick at base ; cymes 
lax-fid. 1-2 ft. long, flowers 2-3 in. across; sepals | in. ; styles thickened at base g in 
long; capsule, including style, If in. 
This species, apparently strictly confined to Kamaon though not at all uncom¬ 
mon there, is perhaps only a geographical form, certainly is the western represen¬ 
tative of the next species, from which it only differs in the want of fine pubescence 
intermingled with its long hairs, in the somewhat different lobulation of its leaves 
and in the margins of its petals being crenulate. In the Flora Indica Hooker and 
Thomson have cited only the Kamaon locality and only Wallich’s n. 8124, and 
8126, both of which came from that province, for their species. The description 
given, however, of the capsule applies rather to Wallich’s n. 8121 from Nepal which 
is cited as equivalent to n. 8124, in the Flora of British India, where the locality 
Nepal is also given for the species. But the plant thus included (Wall. Cat. n. 
8121) is not the same as the Kamaon one; it is the true M. napaulensis of DC. 
\_Prodr. i. 121]—the crimson-flowered portion of Stylophorum paniculatwm of G. 
Don [Gen. Syst i. 135]—and is not distinguishable from the M. Wallichii var 
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