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D. Prain — So?ne additional Papaveraceje. 
[No. 3, 
rubrofusca of Bot. Mag. t. 6760. This plant agrees with M. robusta in having 
hirsute, but not tomentose, stems, leaves and sepals, but differs in having dark-red 
instead of yellow flowers and in having a narrower capsule with reddish spreading 
instead of adpressed or ascending yellow setae with about half the number of valves 
and with a longer style slender throughout. 
5. (5.) Meconopsis paniculata Prain ; tall stout hirsute with soft 
flexuous spreading hairs and densely clothed with a soft substellate 
golden-yellow or grey pubescence ; leaves linear-oblong or oblanceolate 
sinuately lobed, lobes widely-triangular-toothed, cymes paniculate or 
simple; flowers yellow, margins of petals entire; capsule obovate- 
oblong 8-11-valved densely covered with ascending subpersistent setae 
and with close stellate pubescence. 
Var. typica ; cymes paniculate, pedicels subfastigiate branched 
longer than the leaves even in flower sepals sometimes only puberulous. 
Papaver paniculatum D. Don , Prodr. Flor. Nep, 197 (1825). Sty- 
lophorum paniculatum G. Don , Gen. Syst. i. 135 (1831) in part only and 
as to the yellow-fld. plant cited. Meconopsis napaulensis Walp. Bep. i. 
110 (1842) not of DG. Meconopsis Wallichii If. f. Sp T. Flor. hid. 254 
(1855) Walp. Ann. iv. 171 (1857); H. f. 8p T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 119 
(1872) in part only and as to the citation Wall. Cat. n. 8) 23/b ; not of 
Hook. Polycliastia paniculata Wall. MSS. in Herb. Wall. n. 8123/b. 
Nepal : Gossain Than; Wallich. n. 8123/b ! Sikkim : Jongri, King's 
Collectors! Ling-tu, King's Collectors! Plialloot, 10,000 ft., King's 
Collectors! Lachung and Tankra, 11,000 ft., G. Gammie! Eootan : 
Tak-poo, Dungboo ! 
Yar. elata; cymes simple, pedicels usually solitary, sometimes 2 
together, spreading; not or hardly longer than the leaves in flower, 
elongating and fasciculate in fruit. Meconopsis nipalensis H. f. Sp T. 
Flor. ind. 253 (1855) ; Hook. f. 111. Him. PI. t. 9 (1855) ; Walp. Ann. iv. 
171 (1857) ; H. f. Sp T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 118 (1872) : M. nepalensis 
Lemaire , III. Hortic. iii. 95 (1856) — not M. napaulensis DC. M. Wollas- 
tonii Begel , Gartenjl. xxv. 291 (1876) name only. Wall. Cat. n. 8123/a. 
Central Himalaya : Wallich , n. 8123/a ! Sikkim : Lachen, Hooker ! 
Naton g, Dungboo ! Patang-la, King! Jongri, King's Collectors ! Singa- 
lelali, G. Gammie ! Lachung, G. Gammie ! 
Stems sparingly branched or simple 3-5 feet high, 2-3 in. thick at base; 
radical and lower cauline leaves petioled 6-18 in. long; cymes lax-fld. 1-2 feet long 
conspicuous; sepals in VAR. typica J-f in., in VAR. elata 1 in. long; flowers in var. 
typica 2 in., in var. elata 3 in. diam.; style thickened at base | in. long; capsule, 
including style, 1^—2 in. 
Except for the more branching habit, the smaller amount of gross pubescence 
and the smaller flowers in var. typica there is nothing to separate the two varieties 
which pass into each other by-many intermediates and are only sustained here in 
order the more easily to explain the somewhat complex synonymy which has arisen 
