1895.] 
319 
D. Pram— Some additional Papaveracese. 
Serves , viii. t. 735 (1855) ; H. f.8f T. Flor. Lid. 254 (1855) ; Walp. Ann. 
iv. 171 (1857) \JL.f.8r T. Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 119 (1872) excluding in all 
cases the citation Wall. Cat. 8123/b and the Nepal locality. 
This is the pale-blue-fld. paniculate “ Poppy ” familiar to all travellers in 
Sikkim. Dr. King’s Collectors have brought it also from Chumbi (Sham-Chen) 
and Dr. Cummins has sent specimens to Calcutta from Bootan fDichu Valley) but 
though it thus extends further to the east than the F. B. I. indicates it has not as 
yet been collected in Nepal. The plant has long been cultivated iu Europe, seeds 
having first been sent home by Sir Joseph Hooker in 1848 and plants having been 
reared at Kew by Sir William Hooker who figured and described tie species. 
Sir William identified with this the paniculate form of Dr. Wallich’s yellow- 
flowered Nepalese species which is often remarkably like this pale-purple-fld. plant, 
until ripe fruit is obtained. There is however no possibility of confounding the 
capsules of the two — those of M. Wallichii are smaller and narrower with 5-6 
valves, with spreading rufous setae and a longer slender style ; the yellow-fid. plant 
has longer widely-ovate capsules with 8-11 valves, setae that are less patent and 
that remain yellow throughout and a shorter style much thickened at the base. 
One result of the identification of these two plants has been that the Meconopsis 
named in Dr. Wallich’s memory is one that he never collected or distributed. 
§ 3. Piimulinoe. Stems very short simple , leaves and sepals glab- 
rescent; ovaries glabrous (in a Chinese species strigose at apex); stigmas 
cleft or 2-lobed ; leaves simple entire , radical few vanishing , cauline nume¬ 
rous close-set and pseudo-radical; flowers Sanguinarioid i. e. with 6-9 
9. (—.) Meconopsis primulina Brain ; almost glabrous, stem 
short leafy at the base only, leaves linear-oblong entire acute, radical 
few spathulate, all narrowed into short petioles and very sparsely 
strigose on both surfaces flowers on a terminal and one to two axillary 
scapes pendulous dark violet-purple; sepals 2 glabrous, petals 6-8 
imbricate narrowly ovate with a distinct claw; stamens about 50, fila¬ 
ments filiform as long as the ovary, anthers orbicular-ovate golden- 
yellow ; ovary glabrous 4-carpelled narrowly ovate tapering into a 
slender style ^ as long ; stigmas 2-partite lobes oblong plano-convex, 
outer convex surface 2-stigmatic. 
Bootan : Do-lep, King's Collectors ! Chumbi : Sham-Chen, Dungboo! 
Rootstock fusiform 1-4 in. long, neck clothed with old sheaths ; leaves 1^—21- 
in. by \ in. ; central scape 7 in., lateral 3—4 in.; sepals \ in., petals f in. long, a 
in. wide, inner narrower; filaments of the outer series often united into petaloid 
phyllomes with antheriferous fringe; ovary f in. long, T 3 g in. wide, placentas 
far intruded and passing up the substance of the style as 2 pairs of approximated 
traces, each trace bearing at the base of the style a projecting papilla laterally in¬ 
clined so that the 4 papillae are in 2 pairs alternate with placental traces and style 
lobes and opposite the stigmatic cleft, outer stigmatic loops alternate with placentas. 
The capsules though apparently full-grown are unripe. 
The nearest ally of this species is Meconopsis Henrici, Franchet \_Journ. de 
