Tas. 8072. 
LILIUM Ducnartret. 
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Western and Central China. 
Litiacea. ‘Tribe Tutirez. 
Luium Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816. 
Lilium Duchartrei, Franch. in Nowv. Arch. Mus. Par. 2me sér. vol. x. p. 90, 
et in Journ. de Bot. vol. vi. (1892), p. 316; O. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. vol. xxxvi. p. 180; L. Leichtlinii, Hook. f., affine, quod perianthio 
luteo purpureo-maculato segmentis basi carinato-cristatis recedit. 
Herba tripedalis. Bulbi parvi, ovoidei; squame lanceolate, acuminate, 
ciliates. Caulis teres, glaber, rubro-striatus, apice 1-7-florus. Folia 
alterna, lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, basi attenuata, 2 
poll. longa, 6 lin. lata, trinervia, subtus glauca. Flores subcernui, circa 
3 poll. diam., albi, extus roseo-tincti, intus roseo-maculati; perianthium 
basi breviter campanulatum ; segmenta oblonga, recurva, exteriora acuta, 
interiora obtusa, intus basi lineis papillosis instructa. Stamina wqualiter 
divergentia, perianthio breviora; filamenta alba; anthers lute. Stylus 
staminibus wquilongus; stigma capitatum. 
Thirty-two lilies are now recorded from China. Of 
these, seventeen are confined to that country, while five 
extend into India, seven into Japan and three into 
Northern Asia. ‘The present species was discovered in 
June, 1869, by the late Abbé Armand David during his 
journey in the district of Moupine; since then it has been 
found in other parts of Szechuen, in Kansuh and in Yunnan. 
Our plant was raised from bulbs collected in moist meadows 
at an altitude of from 8,000 to 9,500 ft. at Tachienlu, in 
Szechuen, by Mr. E. H. Wilson for Messrs. Veitch & Sons, 
of Chelsea. It flowered at Kew in July last, and seems to 
thrive under cultivation, as in a wild state it rarely 
produces more than three flowers on one stem. 
Li. polyphyllum, D, Don, figured in Elwes’s Monograph 
of the Genus Lilium, tab. 48, resembles L. Duchartret in 
habit, but the perianth has a long tubular base, and is 
greenish outside. 
Descr.—A herb about three feet high. Bulbs small, 
ovoid; scales lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Stem terete, 
glabrous, striped with reddish-purple, one- to seven- 
flowered. Leaves alternate in the upper part of the stem, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering towards 
May Ist, 1906. 
