Tse: 7257. 
LILIUM svunpuvrevm. 
Native of Burma. 
Nat. Ord. Littacem. Tribe Tutrrez. 
Genus Litium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 816.) 
Litium (Eulirion) swlphurewm ; bulbo globoso magno, caule erecto 6-7-pedali 
apice cernuo, foliis pluribus sparsis linearibus viridibus, superioribus 
sensim brevioribus basi bulbilliferis, floribus 1-3 corymbosis, perianthio 
infundibulari pallide sulphureo segmentis oblanceolato-oblongis parte 
tertia superiore recurvatis exterioribus extus rubro-brunneo suffusis, 
staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus, antheris lineari-oblongis, 
. polline rubro-brunneo, stylo staminibus superante stigmate magno. 
L. Wallichianum var. superbum, Hort. Low. ; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1891, pt. 2, 
p- 480. 
L. ochroleucum, The Garden, 1891, vol. ii. p. 338, non Wallich. 
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The recent exploration of Upper Burma by General 
Collett and others has resulted in the discovery of four 
new Lilies. Of these, L. primulinuin (tab. 7227) and 
L. Lowii (tab. 7232) have already been figured in the 
*‘ Botanical Magazine.” The present plant is the third 
species. The fourth, L. Bakerianum, which has erect 
broadly funnel-shaped flowers, has not yet been brought 
into cultivation, but is figured from the dried specimens 
gathered by General Collett in the twenty-eighth volume 
of the “Journal of the Linnean Society,” tab. 22. For 
the introduction into cultivation of the other species 
we are indebted to Messrs. Hugh Low and Co. Of the 
Lilies previously known, the present plant is most nearly 
allied to L. Wallichianum (Bot. Mag. tab. 4561), which 
inhabits Kumaon and Nepaul. It resembles Wallichianum 
closely in its leaves and general habit, but the Himalayan 
plant has pure white flowers, more slender anthers with 
bright yellow pollen, and does not produce bulbille in the 
axils of the upper leaves. Our drawing was made from a 
plant presented by Messrs. Low to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, which flowered in the Temperate House last October. 
OcToBER 1st, 1892. 
