Tab. 7177. 

 L1LIUM Henjjti. 



Native of Central China. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^e. — Tribe Tuxipe.b. 

 Genus Lilium, Linn.; (Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 816.) 



LiLirjM (Arcbelirion) Henryi ; bulbo magno globoso, caule 2-3-pedali crebre 

 foliato, foliis sessilibus lucidis inferiorilms longis lanceolatis superioribus 

 ovatis, bulbillis axillaribus nnllis, floribus paucis Jaxe corymbosis, perianthii 

 lutei segmentis lanceolatis e basi recurvatis punctis minutis rubro-brun- 

 neis decoratis et prope basin papillis coucoloribus praeditis, starninibii-5 

 elongatis arcuatis, stylo arcuato atamiaibus breviore, fructu oblongo verti- 

 caliter 6-sulcato. 



L. Henryi, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. iv. p. 660 ; 1890, vol. vizi. p. 380, 

 with figure. 



This fine new lily is one of the many interesting plants 

 which have been discovered by Dr. Augustine Henry, who 

 during the last ten years has sent home very large collec- 

 tions from Western China. At the present time he is 

 engaged at Kew upon the distribution of his collections, 

 and he has kindly furnished me with the following notes 

 upon it. 



" Lilium Henryi only occurs, so far as I have observed, in 

 two situations, both near the town of Ichang in the Hupeh 

 province. I saw no trace of it in my journeyings through 

 the higher mountains of that province, and the portion of 

 Szechwan bordering on it, in the year 1888. 



It occurs on the grassy slopes of precipices, at an altitude 

 of two hundred to two thousand feet above sea-level. A 

 few specimens occur on the eastern side of the dome, a 

 mass of conglomerate which rises to about one thousand 

 eight hundred feet, and which lies ten miles south of 

 Ichang. The plant is very plentiful on the right bank of 

 the Ichang gorge, between the villages of Ping-shan-pa 

 and Shih-pi-shan, and on the grassy slopes of the lime- 

 stone cliffs inland from the last-named village, from which 

 the path leads up to the Taout monastery named Yang-tai- 

 kuan. It does not occur in the ravines, where L. longi- 

 florum and Brownii are very common. It flowers in the 

 last half of J uly. 



Jr.NK 1st, 1891. 



