325 
1895.] D. Prain — Some additional Papaveracese. 
6. (3.) CATHCARTIA Hook. f. 
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Key to the Indian species (incorporating the new forms'). 
# Stigma large, style very short; flowers large, stamens 
numerous (32) ; a softly hairy plant with (cordate 
lobed leaves and) rounded yellow petals ... 1. C. villosa. 
* * Stigma small, style distinct, flowers small, stamens defi¬ 
nite (16) ; glabrescent herbs with narrow pale-purple 
petals:— 
f Leaves hastate-entire to lyrate-pinnatifid ; petals 
ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, apex subfimbriate ... 2. C. lyrata. 
t t Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; petals lanceolate, acute, 
apex entire ... ... ... 3. C. polygonoides. 
A purely E. Himalayan genus only separable from Meconopsis by the character 
of capsule dehiscing by valves from apex to base. As originally described the 
genus was supposed to have no style. There is however even in the original species 
a distinct, though short, style. 
1. Cathcartia yillosa Hook. f. JBot. Mag. t. 4596 (1851); Flore 
des Serres v ii. t. 686 (1851); Lemaire, Jard. Fleur, ii. t. 167 (1852); 
H. f. 8f T., Flor. Ind. 254 (1855) ; H. /., III. Him. PI. frontisp. (1855); 
Walp. Ann. iv. 175 (1857) ; H. f. 8p T., Flor. Brit. Ind. i. 119 (J872.) 
This has been obtained in Eastern Nepal as well as in Sikkim by 
Dr. King’s Calcutta collectors. 
2. Cathcartia lyrata Cummins 8f Prain ; glabrescent, rootstock 
slender clothed with sheaths; stem slender glabrous ; radical leaves few 
early withering, cauline 3-4 from hastate-entire to lyrate-pinnatifid 
sparingly hirsute on both surfaces ; flowers small, blue, solitary or in 
few-fld. cymes; style distinct; stigma small 2-3-lobed; seeds smooth 
without crests. 
Sikkim Himalaya; 13-14000 feet, not common; Ta-ne-da King! 
Cliiani, Phallut, and Jongri, King's Collectors ! Tankra, G. Gammie ! near 
Gnatong, H. A. Cummins ! 
Stem 3—10 in. simple or sparingly branched ; leaves |-1| in. by f in., radical 
disappearing, cauline petioles 1£ in. Flowers 1-3 (usually solitary), sepals glabrous, 
buds k hi. diam. nodding ; full blown flowers 1 in. diam.; pedicels very slender, petals 
narrowly to widely lanceolate rounded or obtuse rarely acute always fimbriate at the 
margin. Stamens 16, in 2 rows of 8 each ; placentas 2-3, distinctly intruded. 
Capsules 1^ in. long, very slender, erect, valves membranous. 
The complete elaboration of this interesting little species which has puzzled 
Indian botanists since 1877 when it was first obtained by Dr. King, is largely 
due to the efforts of Surgn.-Capt. Cummins of the Medl. Staff' who met with it 
when stationed at Gnatong in 1893, and who has assisted the writer in preparing a 
description. The ripe fruits show that it is undoubtedly a Cathcartia; the valves 
dehisce to the base while the stigmatic rays are opposite the placentas. It 
differs however from the original Cathcartia villosa in having ripe seeds without a 
crested raphe, in having a distinct style, and a much smaller stigma. It must prove 
