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D. Pram — Some additional Papaveraceae. 
[No. 3, 
Botanique v. 19 (1891,] from Szechuen which has more numerous leaves, also close- 
set on a short stem and not truly radical, more numerous stouter scapes and rather 
larger flowers that though nodding in bud are not nodding when full-blown. M. 
Henrici has however a very different ovary which is depressed globose, strigose in 
its upper half and considerably shorter than the style. In M. Franchet’s species 
the same peculiar grouping of the filaments of the outer series in flat phalanges 
is also sometimes met with but there are no epaulettes of papillae on the capsule. 
Another species in which the leaves and stems are exactly like those of M. prim- 
ulina is Meconopsis lancifolia Franchet, from Yunnan. This has a glabrons ovary 
and short style and except in wanting the epaulettes and having a less deeply lobed 
stigma hardly differs from M. primnlina. The flowers too are almost identical but 
instead of having a few flowers on long scapes, it has numerous flowers arranged in a 
racemose cyme with the pedicels bractless as in M. horridula var. racemosn, while 
the sepals are slightly and the stem and pedicels are rather densely strigose. 
Another Yunnan species of this group is Meconopsis Delavayi Franchet, of 
which the flowers are exactly as in M. lancifolia, M. Henrici and M. primnlina but 
which has solitary scapes and crowded very long-petioled pseudo-radical leaves with 
Small spathulate-hastate blades. 
§ 4. Grrandes. Stemless or with simple stems , leaves and sepals softly 
hairy ; ovaries hispid ; stigmas large capitate ridged ; leaves simple entire 
(in the Chinese ) or dentate (in the Indian species ), radical very numerous 
persisting , cauline , if present, few scattered below , whorled above ; flowers 
Sanguinarioid i.e. with 5—8 petals • 
10. (—.) Meconopsis grandis Train ; softly hairy, radical leaves 
tufted numerous ovate-lanceolate coarsely serrate, tapering into a long 
joetiole ; cauline leaves shortly petioled or sessile ; flowers large very 
deep blue; ovary subcylindric sparingly covered with harsh spreading 
ultimately subdeciduous hairs ; placentas 5, slightly intruded ; style § 
the length of ovary; capsule linear-oblong. 
Sikkim : Jongri, in Western Sikkim, very common at 10-12,000 
feet, King's Collectors ! Watt n. 5435 ! G. A. Gammie ! 
Rootstock stout, clothed with sheaths, neck villous ; radical leaves 3£-7 in. by 
1-2 in. with petioles 6-9 in. long ; stem H~3 ft. high leafy, leaves passing into bracts, 
the lower 1-3 scattered, the upper 3-5 collected in a whorl, lowest shortly petioled 
vacant, the next 1-2 with axillary flower-buds : bracts of the whorl subequal 5—6 in. 
by 3 in. with 1-2 axillary flowers ; main axis terminating in a 1-fld. scape extend¬ 
ing 6-18 in. beyond whorl ; sepals 2 hairy, petals 5-7 imbricate, buds 1^ in., flowers 
5 in. diam. ; stamens oo ; capsules 2 \ in. long, seeds rugose. 
This, one of the finest species of Meconopsis in the Himalayas, is evidently, in 
spite of its great difference of habit, very closely allied to M. simplicifolia with which 
it agrees in having tufted coarsely dentate radical leaves and of which it has exactly 
the capsules and the seeds. It is also nearly related to Meconopsis integrifolia 
Franchet [Ball. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxiii. 389 (18S6) et Plant. Delavay. 41 (1889); 
Maxim. Flor. Tangut. i. 35 t. 9. f. 7—12 et t. 22. f. 23-25 (1889) : Cathcartia integri¬ 
folia Maxim Bull. Ac. Imp. Petersb. xxiii. 310 et Mel. Biol. ix. 713 (1876) ; Forbes Sf 
Hemsl. Joarn. Linn. Soc. xxiii. ( Ind. Sinens. i.) 34 (1886)] which agrees with 
M. grandis in having tufted radical leaves and in having a stem that, though 
