Tas. 7076. 
EREMURUS uaimatatcus. 
Native of the Western Himalayas, 
Nat. Ord. Littacex.—Tribe AsrHOpELEE. 
Genus Eremurus, M. Bieb. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 787.) 
Enremurvs himalaicus ; fibris radicalibus carnosis, foliis lanceolatis bipedalibus 
flaccidis obscure ciliatis, pedunculo stricto foliis duplo longiori, racemo 
denso 1-2-pedali, pedicellis strictis flore longioribus apice articulatis, 
bracteis parvis lineari-subulatis, perianthii segmentis oblongis albis dis- 
tincte fusco-vittatis, genitalibus perianthio equilongis, seminibus brunneis 
acute angulatis. 
E. himalaicus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 283 ; Regel Descr. fasc. ix. 
p- 80; Gard. Chron. N.S. 1881, vol. i. p. 50, fg. 11. 
About thirty species of this fine genus are now known, 
at least twenty of which have been discovered during the 
last generation in Central Asia. The present is the only 
species known in the Himalayas, and it is perfectly distinet 
from H. Olge of Turkestan, which Dr. Regel has doubted. 
It is a very striking plant, reaching a height of six or. 
seven feet, with hundreds of pure white flowers, with 
segments narrowly banded with brown. Although it is 
widely spread in the Western Himalayas, at a height from 
seven thousand to ten thousand feet above sea-level, and 
produces seed freely, it does not appear to have been 
introduced into cultivation till within the last ten years. | 
It was flowered by the late Rev. H. Harpur Crewe in 1881. 
Our drawing was made in the herbaceous ground at Kew 
last June. Mr. W. EH. Gumbleton, who has cultivated 
several of the species in the south-west of Ireland, informs - 
us that this is the first of all of them to come into flower, 
beginning, with him, at the middle of May. 
Desor. Root-fibres fleshy, cylindrical, densely fascicled. 
Leaves many in a dense radical rosette, lanceolate, flaccid, 
obscurely ciliated, reaching a length of two feet or more. 
Peduncle terete, stiffly erect, twice as long as the leaves, 
bearing only a few empty bracts. aceme dense, one or _ | 
_ two feet long, three or four inches in diameter when fully © 
expanded; pedicels ascending or spreading, articulated 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1889. 
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