Tas. 8102. 
LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUM. 
China. 
Lintces. Tribe TULIPER, 
Litium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816. 
Lilium myriophyllum, Franch. in Morot, Journ. de Bot. vol. vi. p. 313; ex 
affinitate L. Brownii, F. E. Brown, a quo foliis linearibus uninervils 
perianthioque basi plus minusve saccato recedit. 
Bulbus ovoideus, 3 poll. diametro, squamatus. Caulis 1-6 ped. altus, infra 
nudus, supra dense foliatus, glaber, nonnunquam ad folicrum axillas bulbi- 
ferus. Folia linearia vel lanceolato-linearia, acuminata, basi incrassata, 
glabra, uninervia, 4 poll. longa, 3 lin. lata, marginibus paullo revolutis. _ 
Flores sepius 2, terminales, nutantes; pedicelli breves. Perianthiwm 
circa 5 poll. longum, tubuloso-campanulatum, intus basi luteum, parte 
superiore album, extus rubro tinctum, costis obscurioribus; segmenta 
exteriora lanceolata, 1 poll. lata, interiora obovato-elliptica, 2 poll. lata ; 
nectariam glabrum. Stamina perianthio paullo breviora; filamenta_ basi 
minute puberula; anthers fere basifixe, semipollicares, aurantiace. 
Stylus staminibus paullo longior; stigma trilobatum, viride. OC. H. 
Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 138; Gard. Chron. 1905, 
vol. ii. p. 328, cum icone. DL. Brownii, var. leuwcanthwm, The Garden, 
April 28th, 1906, Suppl., non Baker. 
This is a member of a group of very closely related 
lilies, which cluster around LZ, Brownii, F. EH. Brown (ex Spae 
in Ann. Soc. Agric. de Gand, vol. i. 1845, p. 487, t. 41), and 
of which they are probably geographical forms. The type 
specimen of L. myriophyllum (of which there is a tracing 
in the Kew Herbarium) is destitute of a bulb, but shows 
the so-called ‘rhizome,’ which Franchet relies on as one 
of the diagnostic characters, to be merely an elongated 
part of the stem bearing rootlets above the bulb. Similar 
rootlets are developed in many species of lilies in early 
summer to supply nourishment to the aerial parts of the 
plant, while those at the base.of the bulb are formed in 
autumn to perform the same function for that organ, as 
was described by the late Dr. Wallace in the second edition 
of his Notes on Inlies, p.4. A specimen bearing a bulb 
has been received from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. 
L. myriophyllum was one of the numerous discoveries of 
the late Pére Delavay, several of which have already been 
figured in this work. He found it in July, 1888, flowering 
amongst bushes in stony places at Mosoyn, in the pro- 
NovEMBER Ist, 1906. 
