1895.] 
9. P rain — Some additional Papaveracete. 
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from the inadequacy of the material in European Herbaria. In some cases var. 
typica has only a close stellate pubescence and then remarkably resembles M. Walli- 
chii, but even if the colour of the petals has not been noted the ovaries with 10-11- 
placentas and the 10-11-lobed stigma, or at a later stage the larger ovate 10—11-valved 
capsule with shorter style much thickened below and the altogether different 
pubescence of the capsule amply distinguish this from M. Wallichii. 
That Wall. Cat. n. 8123/b is D. Don’s Pa paver paniculatum is made certain by 
the fact that Don has himself written this name on the type sheet of Wall. Cat. n. 
8123/b, which moreover retains the original field ticket on which Wallich has 
written the MSS name Polychsetia paniculata. D. Don has at the same time 
identified n. 8123/b with Meconopsis napaulensis DC. ; this identification is quite 
erroneous; Meconopsis napaulensis forms the red-flowered portion of G-. Don’s 
Stylophorum paniculatum whereas D. Don’s Papaver paniculatum forms the yellow- 
flowered portion of G. Con’s Stylophorum paniculatum. Hooker and Thomson on 
the other hand have assigned the name M. nipalensis to Wall. Cat. n. 8123/a, and 
have referred Wall. Cat. n. 8123/b to M. Wallichii in this following Sir W. 
Hooker who does not however include Wallich’s yellow-flowered Nepal plant in 
his description of the blue-flowered Sikkim one though he cites the sheet itself. 
Besides being both, as it now transpires, truly conspecific, neither of the portions 
of Waliich’s n. 8123 agrees at all well with the original description of M. napaulen¬ 
sis; that description applies alone among the Himalayan species, to Wall. Cat. n. 
8121 and a comparison of that number with the original M. napaulensis in Mr. C. 
de Candolle’s “ Prodromus Herbarium” shows them to be identical. 
The precise locality of Wall. Cat. u. 8123/a is doubtful. The original field 
ticket is missing ; in the Lith. Cat. list it stands as “ Kamaon ? ” This citation is 
almost certainly wrong ; for the species does not occur amongst the plants sent by 
Blinkworth from Kamaon, and no collector has found it in Kamaon since Blink- 
worth’s time. In all probability, Wall. Cat. n. 8123/a, like n. 8123/b, came from 
Nepal. 
6. (—.) Meconopsis superba King ; tall stout hirsute with soft 
flexuous spreading hairs and densely clothed with soft grey pubescence; 
leaves obovate oblong serrate ; cymes simple ; flowers white margins 
of petals entire; ovary globose 7-11-valved densely clothed with ad- 
pressed setae and with close stellate pubescence. 
Bootan : Ho-Ko-Chu, Dungboo ! 
Stems simple, apparently 6 ft. high, 1| in. thick within 2 feet of top; cauline 
leaves sessile amplexicaul 10-20 in. long; cymes rather dense-fld, pedicels 2-3 
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in each axil; sepals If in. long; flowers nearly 4 in. diam. 
This very fine plant is perhaps only a form of M. paniculata var. elata ; the 
chief differences are the larger size of all its parts, the white, not yellow, petals 
and the serrate but not lobed cauline leaves. The ovary is exactly like that of 
M- paniculata ; ripe fruit is as yet unknown. 
7. (—.) Meconopsis napaulensis DC. Prodr. i. 121 (1824); tall 
glaucescent sparsely hirsute with soft flexuous spreading hairs rarely 
also thinly substellately pubescent, leaves lobed pinnatipartite or ly- 
rate-pinnatisect lobes rounded-oblong widely crenate-dentate; cymes 
simple or paniculate, tips of peduncles and sepals patently hirsute, 
