Tab. 6385. 



FBITILLAEIA Hookeri. 



Native of SHckim. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^:. — Tribe Tulipe.e. 

 Genus Fritillaria, Linn. {Baker inJourn. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 361). 



Fritillaria (Notholiriox) Hookeri ; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis mem- 

 branaceis, caule 1-2-pedali, foliis 6-10 linearibus sessilibus sparsis altering 

 floribus 3-8 in racemum laxum dispositis, bracteis solitariis linearibus. 

 pedicellis brevibus cernuis, perianthii infundibularis roseo-Hlacini pollicaris 

 vel sesquipollicaris segmentis obtusis basi obscure foveolatis interioribus ob- 

 lanceolato-oblongis exterioribus oblanceolatis, staminibus perianthio paulo 

 brevioribus, filamentis filiformibus, antheris parvis oblongis, stylo apice 

 stigmatoso tricuspidato, ramis subulatis falcatis, capsulis obovoideo-oblongis 

 obtuse angulatis apice unxbilicatis, seminibus crebris discoideis. 



F. (Notholirion) Hookeri, Baker in Jourti. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 209. 



LlLIUM (Notholirion), Hookeri, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1S71, p. 201. 



The present species forms with Fritillaria macrophylla of 

 D. Don (better known nnder Wallich's name of Lilium 

 roseunij under which it is figured, Bot. Mag. t. 4725, or Lind- 

 ley's of Lilium Thomsonianum) a group intermediate between 

 the Lilies and the Fritillaries, but in my view with the balance 

 of character leaning decidedly in favour of the latter. It is 

 a much less robust plant than F. macrophylla, and so far as 

 at present known is restricted to the Lachong valley in Sik- 

 kim, where it grows at an elevation of nine thousand or ten 

 thousand feet above sea-level. It was first gathered "by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker in 1849. For its introduction into culti- 

 vation we are indebted to the recent visit of Mr. Elwes, from 

 one of whose bulbs presented to the Koyal Gardens, which 

 flowered in the summer of the present year, the drawing was 

 made. 



Desce. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with a firm 

 brown membranous tunic and a dense tuft of slender root- 

 fibres. Stem erect, glabrous, terete, one to two feet in length, 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1878. 



