Tas. 4731. 
FRITILLARIA oxyPpETALa. 
Sharp-petaled Fritillary. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacem.—Hexanpria Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, deciduum, hexaphyllum ; foliola subsequa- 
lia, campanulato-conniventia, intus supra basin linea nectarifera. Stamina 6, 
perigonii foliolis basi adheerentia. Ovarium triloculare. Ovula in loculis plu- 
rima, biseriata, horizontalia. Stylus terminalis, subclavatus : stigma 3-partitum. 
Capsula trigona vel hexagona, angulis acutis, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. 
Semina in loculis plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, compresso-plana ; testa fusca, 
membranaceo-alata, rhaphe hine per marginem decurrente. Embryo minimus, 
umbilico proximus.—Herbee in Europa australiore et Asia media indigene, bul- 
bose, caulescentes ; foliis alternis v. subverticillatis ; floribus axillaribus, plerumque 
maculatis, nutantibus. Endl. 
Fritttiaria owypetala ; foliis linearibus seu lineari-lanceolatis alternis radicali 
lanceolato basi longe attenuato, caule unifloro, flore nutante, sepalis demum 
patentibus oblongo-ovatis acutis basi contractis subunguiculatis, ungue nec- 
tarifero extus et intus ad basin laminam pilis fasciculatis barbato, bulbo 
squamis elongatis erectis tunicato. 
Fritmuarra oxypetala. Royle, Bot. Himal. p. 388. 
Found at Pindari, Kumaon, elevation above the sea 12,500 
feet, by Messrs. R. Strachey and Winterbottom (n. 4 of their Her- 
barium). Roots of this plant, as well as specimens, have been 
sent to me by those gentlemen ; the former producing flowermg 
plants in June, 1853. If I am correct in referring it to the F. 
oaypetala of Dr. Royle, of which he has given a brief character, 
it was discovered by him at Taranda, in Kunawar. It has not 
the bell-shaped corolla of the legitimate Fritillaries, yet hardly 
seems generically distinct. It succeeds well in a cool frame. 
Descr. Bulb oblong, coated with many large, lanceolate, 
erect, fleshy, greenish-white scales, the outer ones a& long as the 
inner. Stem a foot or a foot and a half high, terete, leafy. Radi- 
cal leaf generally solitary, long, lanceolate, tapering down into a 
slender petiole-like base : cauline leaves distant, linear or liear- 
avuaust Ist, 1853. 
