Macedonia by Mr. Douglas Blanchard. To the latter we 
are indebted for the information that in Macedonia, as in 
Thrace, F’. pontica is generally distributed and prefers 
shade. Most of the bulbs sent by him to his brother 
came from a nullah running into Gumus Dere, near 
Kopriva, and the Sargest, from the slopes of Black Peak 
near Paprat. Here J. pontica flourishes under the 
shelter of bushes at about 3,000 feet above the sea. 
Mr. H. Blanchard’s experience with the plant extends 
over three seasons. The bulbs first received were all 
small and had been lifted very early; grown in pots in 
full sun the plants died without flowering. The second 
consignment, also lifted early, included some larger 
bulbs. The plants started growth too soon and were 
injured by spring frosts, some being cut to the ground. » 
Grown in sandy soil with partial shade and an eastern 
exposure, some of them flowered when six inches high. 
The final consignment, of mature bulbs, grown on the 
north side of a hich wall, produced plants which flowered 
when a foot high, formed capsules and matured seeds. 
In a soil suitable for other species of /’ritillaria* and if 
given sufficient shade, F” pontica is likely to prove hardy. 
The species belongs to the group Monocodon in which the 
bulbs are tunicated, the styles are tricuspidate and the 
nectaries are uniform. The colour of perianth appears 
to vary, especia'ly in cultivated plants, between dark 
green upwards tinged with purple and pale yellowish- 
green, but the absence of tesselation is constant. 
Description.—Herb, Stem erect up to 1} ft. high, usually 1-flowered, leafy 
above, naked in the lower half. Leaves glabrous, green, 2-8 in. long, 3-2 in. 
wide, the lower opposite or alternate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, blunt, the 
upper 3-nate, lanceolate, narrowed to an acute tip. Flower nodding. Perianth 
campanulate; segments straight, never tesselate, the outer 3 elliptic or 
elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse, 11 in. long, 4 in. wide, green flushed with purple 
towards the tip, the inner 8 subspathulate, obtuse, 11 in. long, about 2 in. wide, 
green with purple tip, all with an ovate-orbicular slightly pitted nectary 
é 10. across, situated } in. above the base. Stamens about half as long as the 
—) filaments nearly } in. long, anthers about 2 in. long, blunt, papillose- 
= Rap ies Ovary cylindric, % in. long, iz in. wide, glabrous; stigmas 3, 
SAaaed s im. long. Capsule oblong-turbinate, without a stipe, its angles 
Tas. 8865.—Fig. 1, peri t : : boas : 
& bist alt mane h segment of the inner series ; 2 and 3, stamens}; 
