to twenty-five, sessile, not cirrhose at 
Tas. 6725. 
FRITILLARIA patuipirtora. 
Native of Siberia. 
Nat. Ord. Lit1acez.—Tribe TULIPEZ. 
Genus Fritituaria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 817.) 
Frrrmrnarta (Monocodon) pallidiflora ; bulbo globoso subsquamoso, caule valido, 
foliis multis ecirrhosis, infimis oppositis oblongis, reliquis alternis, superioribus 
lanceolatis, floribus paucis pedunculatis cernuis, perianthio late cam anulato 
pallide luteo segmentis late imbricatis oblongis vel obovato-oblongis ‘a faciem 
punctis pluribus minutis rubro-purpureis decoratis et supra basin foveola 
globosa viridula preeditis, genitalibus inclusis, antheris filamentis brevioribus, 
stylo conspicue tricuspidato, fructu acute angulato. 
F, pallidiflora, Schrenk Enum. Pl. Nov. part 1, p. 5; Kunth Enum, vol. iv. 
p. 251; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iv. p. 148; Regel Gartenjfl. vol. vi. (1857), 
p. 329, t. 209; FU. Turkest. vol. i. p. 146; Rev. Hort, 1880, p. 215. 
This is a very distinct species of Fritillary. It inhabits 
the mountains of Southern Siberia, where it reaches an 
elevation of 8000 or 9000 feet above sea-level, so that it is 
quite hardy in England. It is allied to F. Meleagris and 
F. pyrenaica, but the leaves are more numerous and broader, 
and the flowers larger. In the wild state they are creamy 
yellow, with a few minute reddish-purple spots on the face ; 
but, as in many other species, they become greener in our 
insular climate. Our Plate was drawn from a plant grown 
in the herbaceous ground at Kew, from bulbs furnished by 
Dr. Recel, We have also received it from Mr. Elwes and 
Dr. Masters. It flowers in April. oe 
Dzsor. Bulb globose, half an inch or an inch in diameter, — 
subsquamose. Stems stout, erect, varying 10 length from 
six to fifteen inches. Leaves varying in number from eight 
the tip, firm in 
texture, glaucous-green, two or three inches long, lowest — 
oblong, opposite, the rest alternate, the upper ones lanceo- 
late. - Flowers one to six, produced from the axils of the 
upper leaves on cernuous peduncles. Perianth broadly 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1883. 
