ON FOUR NEW SPECIES OF EREMURUS FROM PERSIA. 17 



nor does any specific locality for it appear to have been previously 

 given. 



74. Asplenium lyrolongatum, Hook. SiDecimina in parva insula 

 juxta Hong-Kong, a. 1872 lecta communicavit cl. C. Ford. Not, 

 I believe, heretofore recorded from China. United by Baker with 

 A. rutifolium, Kze., but all the specimens I have seen from India, 

 Ceylon, and Japan are very constant in form, and it appears to me 

 more distinct than A. borbonicum, Hook., which, though kept 

 apart by Mr. Baker, was regarded as a variety of A. rutifolium by 

 Mettenius. 



75. Polypodium hemionitideum, Wall. In continenti chinensi 

 prope Hong-Kong, a. 1872. Commun. C. Ford. Only previously 

 known from the mountainous regions of India. 



ON FOUE NEW SPECIES OF EREMURUS FEOM 



PERSIA. 



By J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 



The four following new species of the fine Asphodelaceous 

 genus Eremurus were discovered by Dr. Bunge in Persia in the 

 years 1858 and 1859. My descriptions are taken from specimens 

 sent by Dr. Cosson to the Kew herbarium this present summer. 

 The numbers prefixed to the names refer to my monograph of 

 the genus in the fifteenth volume of the ' Journal of the Linnean 

 Society.' 



1*. Eremurus (Eu-eremurus) Bungei, Baker, n. sp. Root fibres 

 cylindrical, the crown of the root surrounded both by fibres and 

 membranes. Leaves cotemporary with the flowers, linear, a foot 

 long, under \ inch broad, firm in texture, glabrous on the faces, 

 minutely ciliated at the edge. Scape terete, moderately stout, a 

 foot long, glabrous. Raceme oblong, dense, 4-5 inches long when in 

 full flower, above 2 inches in diameter, including the exserted 

 stamens. Pedicels erecto-patent, ^-f inches long, articulated at 

 the tip. Bracts subulate, flexuose, shorter than the pedicels, 

 glabrous. Perianth bright yellow, 4-4^ lines long ; segments 

 oblong, reflexing from above the base, ^ mch broad, furnished with 

 a distinct green keel. Stamens finally twice as long as the 

 perianth ; anthers minute, oblong. Ovary minute, globose ; style 

 declinate, an inch long. Immature fruit the size of a small pea. 



Persia, between Nischapur and Medsched, 13th July, 1858, in 

 full flower. Bunge LiliacecR, No. 3 ! 



12-. Eremurus (Henningia) albocitrinus. Baker, n. sp. Root 

 and leaves not seen. Scape above a foot long, moderately stout, 

 terete, glabrous. Raceme finally above a foot long, moderately 

 dense, an inch and a half broad when expanded. Pedicels f— | 

 inches long, erecto-patent, articulated at the tip. Bracts minute, 

 lanceolate, brown, scariose, glabrous, at most a third of the length 

 of the pedicels. Perianth white, with a yellow throat, 5 hues 

 long ; segments oblong, reflexing from near the base, ^ inch 



