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Fritillaria leucantha. White-flowered 

 Fritillary. 



Class and Order. 



Hexandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Tulipace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 6-petala, basi nectarifera. Semina compressa mar- 

 ginata. Spr. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Fritillaria * leucantha ; caule paucifloro, floribus axilla- 

 ribus terminalibusque solitariis, foliis infimis oppositis 

 ovatis apice attenuatis obtasiusculis multinerviis, supe- 

 rioribus verticillatis lineari-IanceolatiVcarinatis apice 

 cirrhosis. 



Fritillaria leucantha. Graham MSS. 



Imperialis leucantha. Fischer MSS. 



Descr. Bulb round, lobed, covered with a thick brown 

 coat, which separates in large fragments, splitting all along 

 the furrows between the lobes. Stem simple. Leaves 

 (three to four inches long) bright green, or slightly glau- 

 cous, somewhat crowded about the middle of the stern, 

 the lowest pair opposite, many-nerved, without a conspi- 

 cuous middle rib, ovate, tapering towards the apex, which 

 is rather blunt; the others more or less perfectly whorled, 

 linear-lanceolate, few- (three to five-) nerved, nearly flat in 

 front, and with a strong middle-rib behind, extended at the 

 apex into a simple cirrhus. Flowers solitary, axillary or 



terminal, 



* From fritillus, a dice-box, but which most authors, according to Sir 

 J- E. Smith, consider to mean a chess-board, to which the tessellated flowers 

 "car a resemblance. 



