TAB. 77 Loe 
LILIUM svrtvnvenst. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacra.—Tribe Tunires. 
Genus Litium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.) 
Litium (Martagon) sutchuense; bulbo mediocri, squamis appressis, canle 14—- 
2 ped. alto erecto gracili folioso luride virid1 rnfo-brunneo marmorato 
plurifloro basi nudo, foliis numercsis sparsis 3—5-pcllicaribus anguste 
linearibus acuminatis 4-1 poll. latis patenti-recurvis superioribus gradatim 
brevioribus supra saturate viridibus medio canaliculatis subtus palli- 
dioribus carinatis, axillis ebulbiferis, pedicellis robustis 3~4 poll. longis 
horizontalibus cauli concoloribus folio parvo recurvo medium versus 
instructis, foribus pendalis 3-poll. diam., perianthii flavo-miniati medio 
- rubro punctati basi campanulati segmentis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis 
-_- reyolutis expansis 3-poll. longis dorso supra medium crasse carinatis 
- intus versus basin multinerviis, nervis validis flexuosis spinulis carnosis 
obsitis, sulco nectarifero bilamellato lamellis superne rugulosis inferne 
fimbriatis, filamentis divergentibus aurantiacis, antheris periantbio fere 
concoloribus, stylo ovario lineari-ollongo triplo 4-plo longiore, stigmate 
parvo obscure trilobo. 
L, sutchuense, Franch. in Journ. de Botanique, vol. vi. (1892) p. 318. Mottet 
in Rev. Horticole, vol. lxxi. (1899) p. 475, fig. 204. 
L. tenuifolinm, Fisch. var. punctatum, Bur. § Franch. in Herb. Mus. Paris, 
ex Franch. Le. 
Hong pee ho, nom. Sin. 
_ The nearest and indeed very near ally of Liliwm sutchu- 
ense is L. tenuifolium, Fisch., a native of Central Asia, 
from the Altai to Amur-land and N. China, which differs 
in its smaller size, slender stem, narrower leaves, unspotted 
perianth, and shorter style. : 
LL. sutchuense was raised from seed sent by the Abbé 
Farges to Mr. Maurice Vilmorin, of Paris, from Hastern 
Szechuen, where it has also been collected by Prince 
Henri of Orleans. It is one of the twenty-four species 
of Chinese and Tibetan Lilies enumerated by Franchet 
in the * Journal de Botanique”’ (Lc. p. 204). ; 
The plant here figured was received by the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Vilmorin & Co. in 1897. It 
flowered in an open border in July, 1899. 
Descr.— Bulb about an inch in diameter; scales narrow, 
fleshy, appressed. Stem a foot and a half to two feet 
May Ist, 1900. 
