388 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [ Tulipacea. 
chiefly distinguished for their mucilaginous properties, and for the secretion, in their 
bulbs, of fecula, which is accompanied by an acrid principle, easily dissipated by heat. 
Lilium candidum, the xpw of the Greeks, thought by some to be sosun (soucan) of she 
Arabs, has alone been much employed medicinally, sometimes in its recent state in 
dropsy, but more frequently as an emollient cataplasm. L. bulbiferum is thought to be 
the Hemerocallis of Dioscorides. The bulbs of Z. Martagon, thought by Fée to be ine 
hyacinth of the ancients, are said by Pallas to be eaten by the Cossacks residing 
between the Volga and the Oural; as are also those of Z. kamtschatense ; so vase of 
L. Pomponium and of L. tigrinum in China. The bulb-scales of L. japonicum dried, 
are said to be employed in China, like salep, in pectoral complaints. The bulbs of 
the Crown imperial are acrid and disagreeable, and said even to be poisonous. 
FRITILLARIA. 
1. F. Thomsoniana, caule multifloro, floribus erectiusculis, foliis elongato-linearibus acutis, bracteis 
lanceolatis scariosis, sepalis lineari-spathulatis obtusis longé unguiculatis, stylo subdeclinato ovario 
5-plo longiore, stigmate tripartito, capsulis turbinatis obtusé 6-gonis, ’ 
Lilium roseum, B. Wall. Cat. n. 5077. 
Hab. Neighbourhood of Mussooree. : 
Obs. Bulbus e squamis pluribus sublanceolatis acutis carnosis extimis marcescentibus membranaceis 
compositus. Semina aptera. | 
I have named this species in honour of my friend, Dr. A. T. Thomson, Professor of Materia Medica 
in University College, author of Lectures on Botany, 1822, from whom I received my first instructions 
in this science, and whose zeal in acquiring I ever found equalled only by his desire to communicate 
information. 
2. F. oxypetala, caule unifloro, foliis lanceolatis obtusé acuminatis, flore erectiusculo, sepalis acutis 
unguiculatis, stylo subdeclinato ovarii longitudine, stigmate trifido. 
Hab. Shalma. 
LILIUM. 
1. L. polyphyllum, sepalis revolutis unguiculatis glabris, stylo ovario duplé longiore, foliis lanceolatis 
acuminatis sparsis ; floralibus verticillatis, caule subtrifloro. | 
Hab. Taranda, in Kunawur, 
‘ 
LLOYDIA. ; 
L. himalensis, caule unifloro foliis radicalibus vix longiore, bractea flori approximata, sepalis spathu- 
latis : nervis lateralibus ramosis, filamentis inferné magis dilatatis, stylo ovarii sublongitudine. Tab. 93, 
£2. ' . 
Hab. Kedarkanta, Choor, and Nako. 
Obs. L. alpina a precedente dignoscitur bractea a flore subremota, sepalis brevioribus obovatis, nervis 
lateralibus ramosissimis, filamentis basi minis dilatatis, stylo ovario breviore. 
1. kunawurensis, caule multifloro foliis breviore, bracteis remotis, sepalis oblongis ; nervis lateralibus 
simplicibus, antheris subrotundis, stylo ovarii longitudine. Tab. 93, f. 3. See 
_ Hab, Chango, in Kunawur. 
GAGEA. S i 
G. elegans, scapo triquetro paucifloro: foliis linearibus planis glabris breviore, bracteis lanceolatis 
acuminatis pedunculisque subvillosis, sepalis acutis, stylo staminibus pariim longiore. Tab. 95, fig. 1. 
- Gagea elegans. Wall. Cat. N. 5065. bas 
_ Hab. Choor, Kedarkanta, &c. in the Himalayas. 
I am indebted to Professor Don for the above specific characters. 
180. HEMEROCALLIDEE. 
