L. Parryi is a native of the San Barnardino Mountains 
in Southern California, on the borders of the Arizona desert, 
in lat. 34° N., and at an elevation of 4000 feet. It was 
found in the potato-patch of a settler in a boggy soil, and 
is described as having only the lower leaves whorled. Mr. 
Elwes remarks that it belongs to a type intermediate 
between L. Washingtonianum and L. pardalinum, the nearer 
affinity being certainly with the former species. 
The specimen from which our plate was made was pre- 
sented by Max Leichltin, of Baden, and flowered profusely 
in July of the present year. 
Descr. Bulb the size of a small apple, new ones (in the 
only root examined) formed close to the old without an 
intervening stalk, scales half an inch long, ovoid, fleshy, 
obtuse. Stem two to three feet high, stout, erect, cylindric, 
bright green. Jieaves three to four inches long, in whorls 
of eight and more, the upper displaced and sometimes 
alternate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, bright green. 
Raceme a foot high and more, many-flowered; rachis stout, 
grooved; bracts one to two inches long, subulate-lanceolate ; 
flowers in whorls of three to six or more, sometimes 
scattered or alternate, horizontal on slender suberect pedi- 
cels. Perianth three inches in diameter, between bell- and 
funnel-shaped ; segments two to three inches long, narrowly 
oblanceolate, upper half spreading and revolute, externally 
deep straw-coloured, greenish towards the base, internally 
golden-yellow, with minute distant specks of _purple. 
Stamens and style about equalling the perianth-segments. 
Anthers linear-oblong; pollen yellow-brown. Capsule linear- 
oblong.—J, D. H, 
Fig. 1, Anthers ; 2, stigma ; 3, longitudinal section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
