EASTEKN H.MAUYA: Sikkim, at 13—14,000 ieot, not common; Ta-me-da; K«^ 1
Chiani, Plmllnt and Jongri; OaUMa Garden Oolhcton ! T a n i r a ; G. Gammie < near
Grnatong; Cummins!
Tins httle species was a puzzle to Indian systematic botanists from 1877 when it
was first obtained by Sir G. King, till it was met with by Oapt. Cummins at
Gnatong in 1883. The ripe fruits, dehiscing downwards towards the base and not by
valves at the tip only, indicate that it is a Oaihcarfia rather than a MecompA; the
fact that tliere are often 3 valves, and the placentation, show tint it is not a
Si^lop/ionm.
PLATB 7.-C.lhoaili. Ij-rsta Omm. & Pnm. 1, p k o t , - « / ml,nl .¡I., 8, aoral di.grsm; 3,
p.t.1 X 2; 4, .lm?n x 3; 5, 6, ovari.a, out tr.nsver.ely x 2 ; 7, oupsule X 2; 8, seed x s'
Specimen from Cbiftni, oa tlie Nepal Frontier.
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8. OiTac.VETlA poLYaoNolDEs Pram m J m . Ai. Sa^. Bmj. Uiv. 3. 326 (1893).
Atilural order Papaveraceaj.
A glabrescenl herb with a slender rootstock clothed with sheaths, 4—5 cm long •
Item, simple, slender, strigose, 1 5 ^ 5 em. high, about as thick as a crow-quill or
less ; radical and subradical kavea long-petioled, cauline loaves 2—3, lower long-petiolcd
uppermost sessile stem-clasping, rauicui and lower canlino petioles 6—10 cm lon<^
laminae ovate-oblong, obtuse, base cuneate, truncate or slightly cordate, margins entire
or slightly incised crenate, sparingly hairy on both surfaces, 4—5 cm. Ion..
1 - 5 - 3 cm. wide ; fi,«ert soKtary, nodding, 2-.i cm. across; peUt hluoisb-white'
rather narrowly laneeckte, apei acnte or rarely obtuse, margin entire; si™«» 16 in
two rows ot 8 each; o«ary narrowly ovate, style distinct, stigma small 2—3-lobed
i litlle intruded, 2—3. '
EABTESH HIMAUTA: Chuinbi, at Sham-Chen, at Put-lo, and at Lin>-moo-ton» •
Calcutta Garden Colkctor, ! = o i
The Sowers and unripe capsules of this plant are so like those of O, Igrala
that thero would seem to be little , room for doubt as to its generic position. But
i t is also very like a small form of a plant from Yunnan described and figured
by M. Franchet as Meconopili bdmicaefoHa [^Planiae Deluva^anae, 43. t. 12 (1889)] of
which it has all the habit and, though on a smaller scale, exactly the foliage.
A final decision as regards both Catkarfia polsgamiden and Meconopsis hetonicaefilm
can only be given when ripe fruits of both have been received. The spEHfu;
diiferences between the two plants are the fewer (16) stamens in the Chmnbi plant
than in the Yunnan one, which has 64 ; the narrower, much smaller petals ; and the
smeller ovary and stigma.
PIAI'E 8.-0»tlie.rtiB poljgonoides Fr.dn. 1, pl.mt,-»/ ; 2, flomi di.grim • 3 petal
from the pi.et 8g,.r«l fig, I ; „ d 4, petd, from , pl.ut eollecied at Put-lo,-4«i x 2 • s'
stameu x a j 6, ovary X 3. Plant from Sham-Cheu, Ohuaibi. ' '
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9. CHEIJDONIDM DICSANOSTIGMA Praia in Bull Seri. Doiiì. iii. 585 (1895).
Kalural order P&paveraceai.
A glaucous, glabrous or puberulous herb with a stout, fusiform, descending rootstock
10—15 cm. long, enlarged at the apex to 1-5 cm. diam. and there densely
covered with old sheaths; radical leaves many, petioled, 4—8-jugately pinnatifid to
-partite, 12—25 cm. long. 3—5 cm. wide, segments usually distant, • rhomboid, acutely
incised-lobed, terminal lobe 3-6d ; petioles 4—5 cm. long ; stems several, leafless
below, 10—35 cm. long before branching, apex of stem and of each brandi
supporting a terminal flower, branches few, subfastigiate, 6—8 cm. long, in t]ie
axils of floral leaves conformable with the radical but sessile and smaller only 3 8 cm
long by 3'5—4 cm. wide, sefiments 2—4-jugate, and with occasionally 1—3 sterile
bracts or, less often, 1—3 flowers near the middle ; fiomers 3—5 cm. across, pedicels
ebracteolate, 5—8 cm. long; sepah ovate-acute, pubernlou^, 2 cm. l o n g ; petals orangestamens
about 80 ; ovari/ narrowly ovate-acute, puberulous with soft weak hairs, style
distinct, stigmas mitraeform, lobes large erect acute ; capsule cylindric 5 6 cm', long
(including style 5 mm. long) tapering, softly puberulous ; seeds small, numerous, ovate!
not serobiculate and not crested. Journ. As. See. Bentr. Ixiv. 2. 327 {189.Ì). Dicranostii'ma
lactucoides Hook, f . ^ Thorns. Fior. Ind. 255 (1855) ; Walp. Aiiìì. lv. 272 (1857)
Stylophorum lactucoides Baili, Hist, des Piante» iii. 114 (1871); Hook / ir TJioma
Fior. Brit. Ind. i. 119 (1873).
HIMALAYA : Kamaon ; Straeher/ a'ld Winierhottom n.
5326 ! Phari ; Ei„s's Collectors !
Dulhie nn. 2699 ! 3819 !
Nearly allied to Oielidonium Framhetlanum Prain and 0. leptopodum Ptain (Glaacium
leptopodum Maxim.) but differing from both in having large stigmatic lobes
softly hairy capsules, and simple or subsimple cymes. The plant from Phari which is
figured on PLATE 9 as fig. 1, almost always has one or two flowers on the branches
whereas none of our specimens of the Kamaon plant have other than simple cymes'
though some of them have a barren bract near the middle ; the Phari plant has
nioreovet the angles of tlie leaf-segments more acute, and is glabrous and smaller
in all its parts ; to illustrate these features an outline of a leaf of tho Kamaon plant
and a figure of a capsule with its pedicel, from the Western Himalayan form are
given as (igs. 4 and 5 respeotively. I do not feel able at present to consider 'these
differences specific ; should they prove constant, however, it may ultimately be
necessary to recognise tho two as distinct, in which case the name C Dicranastian
may be restricted to tho Eastern form and the Western may be known
C. lactucoides.
PLATE 9.-Chelidoaiem Dieranoetigma P,m„. 1, pl,„l Piati,—./ mtor.I m, •
X 2 ; 3, .eed X 5 , - i eM / , . „ , ¡l„ ph.l , i „ „ i , /¡g. i - 4 5 o»p,do,-W/, of
6, seed X 5 i fig,. 4, 5 .ad 6 are from . K.m.oa pl.nt. ' """•'
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