PLATE IX. 
MECONOPSIS NIPALENSIS, pc 
Nat. Ord. PAPAvRAcE”. 
Herba elata, robusta, tota setis patentibus crinita pubeque stellata sicco aurea obtecta, foliis caulinis sessilibus linearibus 
lineari-oblanceolatisve smuato-lobatis, floribus aureis racemosis, pedicellis elongatis patentibus, capsula 8—10-valvi 
setis appressis pubeque stellata dense obsita—De Candolle, Prodromus, v. 1. p. 121; Hook. fil. et Thoms. Flora 
Indica, v. 1. p. 253. Papaver paniculatum, Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 197; Wall. Cat. 8123 A. 
Has. In sylvis Himalayee centralis et orientalis temperate: Nipal ad Gosain-than, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 ped. 
Hl. Mai. Jun. 
POLI enn 
This superb plant, when seen from a distance, resembles a small yellow Hollyhock. It was discovered 
by Dr. Wallich’s collectors in Nipal, and I found it im the damp interior valleys of Sikkim, growing amidst 
a rank and luxuriant herbage on the skirts of Silver-Fir forests (Abies Webbiana), at 10-11,000 feet above 
the level of the sea. The accompanying figure is taken from a sketch of my own, of a specimen that was 
five feet high. The whole plant, like its congeners, abounds in a bright, chrome-yellow, fetid, acrid juice, 
and is considered to be highly poisonous. 
There is another and scarcely less beautiful species of this genus in Sikkim, with a much more branched 
many-flowered panicle and smaller blue-purple flowers; it is found at equal clevations on the outer ranges 
of Sikkim and Nipal, and is abundant on the top of Tonglo; it is the M% Wallichii, Hook. (Bot. Mag. 
pl. 4668), and has flowered at Kew, from seeds which I sent to England in 1848. The present plant has 
also vegetated at Kew from seeds which I sent home in the following year, but has not flowered. Two 
other panicled species of JJeconopsis inhabit the more Western Himalaya, the JL. aculeata, Royle, and 
M. robusta, Hf. et T., both very beautiful plants, neither of which have hitherto been introduced into 
England. The single-flowered species I have alluded to under the previous Plate. 
Prats IX. Fig. 1. Hairs of the stem. 2. Stamen. 3. Pollen. 4. Ovary. 5. Transverse section of ovary. 6. Ovules :-— 
all magnified. 7. Ripe capsule, natural size; and 8, hairs of its surface, magnified. 9. Seeds, natural size. 10. 
Seed. 11. The same with the testa removed. 12. Longitudinal section of albumen. 13. Embryo. 14. Seeds 
that have grown together. 15. Longitudinal section of the same. 16, 17. Deformed embryos from the same :— 
all magnified. 
