quoted, in the size and colour of the flower. The species with 
which I would immediately compare it is the Polygonatum Sibi- 
ricum of Redouté’s ‘ Liliacées,’ figured there however from a 
dried and much shrivelled specimen. From this the Convallaria 
cirrhifolia of Wallich is not distinct. It is described as hav- 
ing the leaves almost uniformly verticillate, and with more or less 
cirrhose points. It is indeed extremely common in Himalaya, at 
elevations of from 7—11,000 feet (Hooker and Thomson) ; but 
specimens collected by Messrs. Strachey and Winterbottom, at 
Rinkim in Thibet, in our herbarium, gathered at an elevation of 
13,500 feet above the sea, partake of the characters of the two 
species ; the lower leaves being quite straight at the points, as 
in P. roseum, the upper ones with uncinate or slightly cirrhose 
points, a character so common in P. Sibiricum ; so that unless 
the living plant were to exhibit some mark of distinction, It 
would be difficult to say to which of the two species this should 
be referred. The colour of the flowers seems to be the same in 
both. As neither one nor the other however has, as far as we 
know, been cultivated in our gardens, we gladly represent the 
rosea of Ledebour in our present Plate. : 
Descr. Root a horizontal, fleshy ‘user, sometimes running 
out to a great length, and forming a long, fleshy rhizome, throw- 
ing up annual, simple, herbaceous, erect stems, one to two feet 
high, terete ; but at the same time angular on the surface, pale 
whitish-green, sometimes tinged with red streaks. Leaves gene- 
rally subverticillate but rarely strictly so, and here and there 
quite alternate, especially at the summit and at the very base, 
where indeed they almost constitute scales; in form the leaves 
are linear or linear-lanceolate, the uppermost ones slightly acu- 
minated, striated, entire, the margins and keel under a high 
magnifier scaberulous. Peduncles axillary, solitary or two to- 
gether, generally forked and two-flowered, sometimes bearing 
four flowers, rarely one. Peduncle and pedicels prettily mottled 
_ with dark-purple. Perianth in our living specimens about three- 
quarters of an inch long ; the ground-colour is white, but slightly 
tinged with purple, mottled and streaked with pink, so that the 
general tint 1s rose-colour ; the ¢ube long; the dimé of six, ovate, 
spreading segments, white at the margin and somewhat serrated 
or crested at the very apex. Stamens and pistil included. An- 
thers oblong, yellow. Ovary obovate. Style shorter than the 
ovary. Stigma truncated. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
