3895.] 
D. Prain — Some additional Papaveracete. 
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shorter, has also 1—2 scattered leaves below and a whorl of 5-8 bracts with 2-3 
axillary as well as a terminal flower above, but which differs in having all the leaves 
entire, in having yellow in place of dark purple flowers, and in having a very short 
style with a rather larger stigma. Of the two, M. integrifolia is perhaps the more 
beautiful species ; both must prove, when ultimately introduced, great acquisitions 
to European horticulture. M. grandis seems to be confined to the district of Jongri 
bat is very plentiful there. 
11. (—.) Meconopsis simplicifolia Walp. Rep. i. 110 (1842) ; 
H. f. Sf T. Flor. Ind. 252 (1855) ; Hook. /., III. Him. PI. t. 8 (1855) ; 
III. Hortic. iii. 314 (1856); Walp. Ann. iv. 170 (1857) ; Flore des Sevres 
xiii. fc. 1324 (1858) ; Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 118 (1872). Papaver simplicifol- 
ium D. Don, Prodr. FI. Nepal. 196 (1825) Stylophorum simplicifolium 
Spreng. Syst. iv. cur. post, 203 (1827); G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 135 (1831). 
Wall. Gat. n. 8125. 
The species most nearly related to M. simplicifolia is M. quintuplinervia Regel 
[Gartenfi. (1876) 291. t. 880, f. b. c. 8f d.; Maxim. Flor. Tangut. 34 t. 23. f. 27 (1839j] 
from Northern Tibet and Kansu. M. quintuplinervia differs from the Himalayan 
species in having entii'e leaves, filaments sub-2-sei'iate those of the outer rather 
shorter series being moreover slightly dilated upwards. A second closely allied 
species is M. punicea Maxim. \_Flor. Tangut. 34. t. 23. f. 12—21 (1889)] which also 
differs from M. simplicifolia in having entire leaves but is further easily distin¬ 
guished from both M. simplicifolia said M. quintuplinervia by having much longer 
and narrower petals and by having a short globose ovai’y with a much larger almost 
sessile stigma. 
§ 5. Bellas. Stemless; scapes, leaves, sepals and ovaries glabrous, 
stigmas small capitate; leaves 2-3-pinnatijid all radical numerous persisting, 
-flowers sub-Papaveroid, i.e. petals 4 or 5. 
12. (—.) Meconopsis Bella Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxiii., pt. 
2, 82 [Novicise Indicse vii. 71] (1894). 
This species is, as already mentioned in this work, vei’y distinct from any 
hitherto reported Meconopsis and represents a group not very closely related to any 
of the preceding. This also, when -ultimately introduced, must prove a great 
acquisition to European hoi'ticulture. 
4. (—.) RCEMERIA Medik. 
Annual herbs with yellow juice; leaves petioled pinnatipartite 
with multifid lobes; flowers in cymes, on slender leaf-opposed pedicels ; 
sepals 2, petals 4 violet-purple, with a dark basal eye ; stamens nu¬ 
merous; ovary linear, stigmas 2-4-lobed sessile; rays opposite the 
many-ovuled placentas. Capsules elongated, 3-4-valved, 1-locular, 
dehiscing throughout their length; seeds scrobiculate, without crests. 
Species 2; Mediterranean and Oriental. 
Key to the Indian Species. 
* Capsule uniform, setose ; filaments filiform ... 1. R. hybrida. 
* # Capsule nari’owed upwards, glabi'ous; filaments dilated 2. Ii, refracta. 
