Figure i. A plant of Hemeroccdlis nana obtained from the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society and grown at The New York Botanical Garden. The six- 

 inch pot gives a measure of the dwarf stature of the plant. 



inches long, expanded rather than plicate, and longer than the 

 scapes. The scapes are slender, bending outward, and usually they 

 hear one flower. When there is more than one flower the scape is 

 branched. The bracts are inconspicuous and often there will he 

 two to a scape, even though there is hut one flower. The flowers 

 may have a spread of three or more inches; the segments are rather 

 narrow; the tube short and not sharply defined; the color on the 

 inner face is a clear orange, but on the reverse there may be shades 

 of reddish-brown. 



The photograph taken by Forrest and his herbarium material 

 show plants with rather sparse foliage and short scapes. The same 

 is true of specimens collected by J. V. Rock (his Nos. 523] and 

 9593) collected 111 [922 and [923 in Yunnan, which appear to he 

 //. nana. | See Figure 2.) In the herbarium specimens the leaves 

 seem decidedly plicate, the tips of the leaves are often broken, and 

 in the specimen collected by Forrest ( Figure 2) which the writer 



