as those of L. japonicum, but with a dark band on the 
back of the petals. That it was known at an earlier date 
in England is proved by its being figured in Bury’s 
magnificent folio on Hexandrian plants, which was published 
in the years 1832-1834, where it is named L. japonicum, 
with Japan as its native country. 
Var. leucanthum was first described by Mr. Baker in the 
Gardener's Chronicle, from a plant the bulb of which was 
sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Dr. Henry in 1889, 
along with those of L. Henryi (tab. 7177) from Ichang, 
in the province of Hupeh. The specimen here figured was 
raised from seeds sent also by Dr. Henry, in 1897. It 
flowered in August, 1899. __ . 
Another variety of L. Brownii, called viridulwm, is de- 
scribed by Mr. Baker in the Gardener’s Chronicle (1885, vol. 
i. p. 184) as having only a faint dash of claret-brown on 
the perianth-segments, and is recorded as a native of Japan. 
Descr.—Var. leucanthum. Bulb globose, white, four 
inches in diameter; scales appressed, oblong, fleshy. Stem 
three to six feet high, robust, green, leafy from the base 
upwards. eaves very many, crowded, spreading and 
recurved, sessile, alternate, and uniform in size, except 
the terminal, which are whorled, shorter and broader, 
ovate-lanceolate, three to five inches long by one and a 
quarter to one and a half broad, dark green, with about 
five deeply impressed parallel nerves above, which are 
strongly raised beneath, axils bulbilliferous; bulbils the 
size of a pea, dark brown and green. Flowers two or 
more in the axils of the uppermost whorled leaves, stoutly 
pedicelled ; pedicels green, decurved, shorter than the 
flowers. Perianth five to seven inches long, very narrowly 
funnel-shaped ; segments nearly white, each with a stout, 
broad, green dorsal midrib, dilating into a rounded revo- 
Jute white limb, two to two and_ half a inches broad. 
Nectary linear, margins papillosely pubescent. Filaments 
very stout, sub-declinate, green; anthers half an inch 
long or more, linear-oblong, yellow-brown. Style very 
Stout, green, tip capitate, six-lobed; stigmas decurrent on 
the lobes.—J. D. H. a 
Fig. 1, portion of stem with bulbils of nat. size; 2. anther ; 3, head of style 
and stigmas, both enlarged ; 4, greatly reduced view of whole plant. 
