354 OLVI. LILIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Fritillaria 
opposite upper longer whorled, flowers umbelled yellow or brick-red not 
tessellate, nectary large rounded. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 274; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 189; Bot. Mag. t. 194 and 1215; Redouté Lil. t. 13l. 
F. Corona-imperialis, Gertn. Fruct. i. 64, t. 17, f. 1. Petilium imperiale, 
J. St. Hil. Fam. Nat. 1.120; Kunth Enum. iv. 246. 
Western Himataya; Kashmir, alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson, Clarke.—DisTRi». 
Westward to Kurdistan. 
Bulb large, globuse, of broad obtuse gibbous fleshy yellowish scales, strong- 
smelling. Stem 3-4 ft., robust, naked below. Leaves crowded, 6-10 by 1-2 in., 
lower obtuse, upper acute, often 10 in a whorl. Flowers 5-8 ; bracts leafy, whorled, 
erect, linear. Perianth 2-2} in. long ; segments ł-1} in. broad. Filaments flat- 
tened below. Capsule 2 in. long, obovoid, almost 6-winged, umbonate.—Crowu 
Imperial. 
23. LEO Y DIA, Salisb. 
Small slender bulbous herbs. Leaves filiform. Flowers few or solitary, 
small, white or yellow. Perianth funnel-shaped, suberect ; segments 0 
persistent, straight, 3-5-nerved, with an obscure basal fold or nectary. 
Stamens 6, subhypogynous, filaments erect, filiform; anthers basifixed. 
Ovary triquetrous; style columnar, sigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobe à 
cells many-ovuled. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds compressed and angled, 
testa appressed, brown or white.—Species 2 or 3, Northern. 
L. serotina, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 102; Ic. Fl. Germ. x. t H 
Kunth Enum. iv. 244; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 300; Bots. ^^ 
Orient. v. 202. I. alpina, Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 328. L. himalens* 
Royle Ill. 388, t. 93, f. 2; Kunth l. c.672. L. longiscapa, Hook. Ic. Wi 
834. Anthericum serotinum, Linn. Sp. Pl. Ed. ii. 444. Gagea ? pulehe^^ 
Wall. Cat. 5064. Nectarobothrium striatum, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. n. 36. 
ALPINE HIMALAYA and TIBET; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 12-17,000 ft^ 
Disrris, Alps of Europe, Asia and America. us 
Bulb elongate, 4-1 in., base rhizomatous, neck very long, coats membranos, 
Leaves 2-8 in., wiry, convolute. Stem 4-12 in., with 1-2 small leaves, rarely for e 
Flowers suberect, white with violet veins or yellow, purple at the base; segme " 
3-3 in. oblanceolate or spathulate, broad or narrow; nectary very small, Eas, 
Stamens 3-2 shorter than the perianth; filaments glabrous pubescent or Y! 0 d 
anthers minute, very variable in shape. Style as long as the ovary. Hoi 
4-3 in., obovoid or obeordate. Seeds triquetrous, foveolate.—1 am unable debat 
any character whereby to distinguish the yellow from the white fld. states, an Hook.» 
is more remarkable, the specimens with hairy filaments (Z. longiscap®, inter- 
Gagea ? pulchella, Wall.) pass into these with glabrous filaments and grow pm at 
mixed with them. A very minute tufted state, under an inch long, apu 
13-14,000 ft. elevation in Sikkim with sepals only 3-4 in. long. In a drawing FV, 
1 made of the ordinary Sikkim form, the nectary is represented as a drop of fiu 
the naked surface above the base of the sepal. 
24. TULIPA, Linn. 
above, or 
Bulb coated. Leaves few, linear or oblong. Scape naked te; 
1-2-leaved, 1-3-fld. Flowers large, usually erect. Perianth campanu ors 
segments 6, quite free; nectary 0. Stamens 6, hypogynous; Za? 
basifixed, erect. Ovary oblong; stigmas 3, subsessile, recurved; C° ^. 
many-ovulel. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds flattened, testa membre» N. 
pale, appressed.—Species abont 60, temp. Europe, N. Africa an 
Asia. 
