Tas, 6012. 
MERENDERA Arrtcuaisont. 
Native of the Panjab. 
Nat. Ord. MeLantuacex.—Tribe CoLcnicea. 
Genus Merennrra, Raymond.—Butsocoprum § MERENDERA; 
(Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 187). 
Mrrenvera Aitchisoni ; cormo ampulleformi uno latere obtuse carinato basi 
contracto oblique in discum producto, disco truncato facie inferiore 
radices emittente, tunicis pallide flavo-brunneis, collo elongato, vagina 
membranacea, foliis anguste linearibus acutis 1-poll. latis concavis, 
flore 13-poll. diam., perianthii pallide lilacini lamina ungue gracili bre- 
viore lanceolata dorgo basin versus carinata, antheris virescentibus. 
Buxsocopium, Sp., Aitchison, Cat. Plants Punjab § Sindh. p. 151. 
_ The genus Merendera, regarded by some, and perhaps 
rightly, as a division of Bulbocodium, has been hitherto sup- 
posed to find its Eastern limits in Persia, where JZ. caucasica, 
w Species very clearly allied to the present, has been collected 
by Kotschy - The genus was first detected east of the con- 
necting ranges of our Indian possessions by Major Vicary, 
who, about twenty years ago, sent to Sir W. Hooker frag- 
ments of a species which I suppose to be identical with this, 
from the Mar-gulla Pass of the Salt range in the Panjab. 
More recently it has been found near Jhelum, in the same 
district, by Dr. Aitchison, F.L.S., an ardent botanist, and 
author of avery valuable catalogue of the plants of the Panjab, 
We. During last summer Dr. Aitchison sent bulbs to Kew, 
which flowered in November of the present year, and are here 
figured. 
As a species there is little at first sight to distinguish the 
M. Aitchisoni from VM caucasica, which extends from Persia 
eastward to Asia Minor, and from the tropical African JZ. 
JANUARY Isr, 1873, 
