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D Prain —Some additional Papaveraceoe. 
[No. 3, 
flowers'dark fuscons-purple, capsules subcylindric or narrowly ovate 
4-6-valved, densely covered with harsh setae at first yellow and ad- 
pressed at length rufous and spreading or sub re flexed. Meconopsis 
robusta H. f. 8f T. Flor. Brit. Lid. i. 118 (1872) in part and as to the 
Nepal plant cited (Wall. Cat. n. 8121) not of H. f. Sf T. in Flor. Ind. 
M. Wallicliii var. rubrofusca Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6760 (1884). Stylo- 
phorum nepalense Spreng. Syst. iv. cur. post. 203 (1827). S. panicula- 
tum G. Don , Gen. Syst . i. 135 (1831) in part only and as to the crimson- 
fid. plant cited. 
Nepal : Gossain Than, Wallich n. 8121 ! Thari, in Eastern Nepal, 
King's Collectors ! Sikkim: Tehni-Zen King's Collectors ! Tiamphung and 
elsewhere in Jongri, frequent, King's Collectors! 
Stems simple 2-5 feet high, |-1 in. thick at base ; flowers nodding, 3 in. in 
diam. ; lower canline leaves long-petioled ; sepals rather densely crinite but not or 
sparsely stellate-pubescent; petals broadly obovate-oblong ; capsules |-1 in. with 
a slender style f in. long. 
The bibliographical relationship of this species to M. robusta and M. paniculata 
has been already explained. From both it is readily distinguished by its dark 
purple not yellow flowers, by its smaller capsule with fewer valves and very dif¬ 
ferent setae, and by its much longer slender style. Its association with M. robusta 
has been due to both having rounded lobes of leaves and to the two having very 
similar sepals. Its identification with M. paniculata lias been the result of a mis¬ 
apprehension on the part of Mr. D. Don who, of the two Meconopsis collected by 
Wallich in Nepal, has, contrary to M. de Candolle’s explicit statement, selected the 
many-valved one as the equivalent of the Prodromus species. Mr. G. Don has 
attempted to overcome the difficulty thus created by treating these two Nepal 
plants, the red and the yellow-fld., as conspecific. This is however impossible for 
the botanical relationship of M. napnulensis is, as Sir Joseph Hooker has clearly 
shown, in the most recent notice of this species ( Bot. Mag. t. 6760), with M. Wallichii. 
It has many of the characters of that plant but besides having dark-red-, in place 
of pale-blue-purple flowers it is easily distinguished by its leaves and sepals being 
patently crinite with long hairs and by having very little, usually indeed none, 
of the close stellate pubescence that characterises the leaves and sepals of M. 
Wallichii where on the other hand there are none of the long hairs of M. napaulensis. 
This species has only recently been successfully introduced into European Gardens, 
plants having been reared by Mr. G. Wilson in his garden at Weybridge from seeds 
sent by Dr. King. It may ultimately be satisfactorily proved that Sir Joseph 
Hooker’s suspicion, which the writer shares, that this and M. Wallichii are only 
forms of one species, is correct. In that case the name M. Wallichii which has 
become familiar in European horticulture will have to give way to the older name 
M. napaulensis, which is at present, but quite erroneously, associated in European 
gardens with Wallich’s yellow-fld. species. In the meantime however it is more 
satisfactory and less misleading to treat M. napaulensis and M. Wallichii as speci¬ 
fically distinct. 
8. (6.) Meconopsis Wallichii Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4668 (1852); 
Jard. Fleur, iii. t. 315 (1853) ; Belg. Hortic. iv. t. 18 (1854) ; Flore des 
