402 
Botanical Magazine for November —Figures and descriptions are 
given of the following plants :— Lilium myriojthyUHm, Franeh., 
leriana, Sander, Cotyledon devensis, N. E. Brown, Ribes 
omentum, Greene, and Plr'nnu i/n,i>i>nieyisis s Rolfe. The Lilium 
is one of the allies of L. Bmintii. F. K. Brown, and is a native 
of Yunnan and North-west Szechuen, having been introduced 
into cultivation from the l.i-r-natn.-d province by Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, who supplied the material figured. Franchet, when 
he described the species, had not seen a bulb, but remarked the 
presence of a rhizome. Messrs. Veitch sent a specimen bearing a 
bulb. Lycaste dyericma, a Peruvian species, is curious in having, 
like Gattleya citrina, Lindl., and a few other Oivhids, a pendulous 
habit. The plant drawn was received, in 1903, from the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Glasnevin -. it Sowers annually at Kew. The 
i otylfdnn is of garden origin, and is probably a hvbrid between 
C. f/tmtca, Baker, and (7. gibbijlora, Baker. The plant is 
remarkable in the genus on acconiir ot its extraordinary stature, 
having a stem fifteen inches high, and oblanceolate leaves eight 
to ten inches long, while the flower stems are as much as five to 
seven feet long. The Kew plant was received from Messrs. 
Dicksons, of Chester, in 1902. Ribes cruentwn is a pretrv species 
belonging to the section Grossularia, and is a native of the 
Western United States. Its globose crimson fruits are armed 
with long straight prickles. The material figured was obtained 
from a plant purchased from Mr. L. Spaeth in 1899. Pleione 
yunn.innms, from Yunnan, is a new introduction to gardens, 
and differs from the species already in cultivation by having 
globose-ovoid pseudobulbs and a taller scape. The drawing was 
prepared from material sent to Kew by Messrs. Buttons & Sons, 
Reading. J 
Lihum Brownii.— The name Lilium Brownii has been used for 
at plants; first by Poiteau in Rev. Hort. 2me ser., ii., 
Idi-li is synonymous with /,. jaj,nnirnm, 
\ v\' l l Jap " m (1784 >' and afterwards for another species 
DJ r. h. Brown, a nurseryman at Slough, in whose catalogue the 
"ame hrst appeared. A descripti plant was 
published by Spae in Ann. Soc. Agric. Gand, i, 437, t, 41 (1845), 
" '"' «l'i"tt'd as the authority "Brown in litt." In the same year 
this plant was also described by Lemaire and figured in the Flore 
aes feerres, t. 46, and enumerated by Mielle in his catalogue ; as a 
resultthese^riurs],,, .authorities 
toi the specific name. The plant referred to in the Botanical 
Magazine and now extensh.h ,,,,«„ ,. /. /;,„„■„,,. <>t which 
"ur forms exist, is this L. Brownit of F. E. Brown, not 
that ot Poiteau. 
mL ^*Jf* bMTO » Ti ™nb. (which is confined to Japan), has 
glabrous filaments, fewer wrf more mem- 
n^rtiS ^"^ 01 ^ lea ^s,and a more widely campanula^ 
ESS ? ^ ^ ? 1 V Vnii > F " E - Br - while the latter has nutm-i-us 
fiS! 7 imb " cate bul b-Bcales, usually sessile leaves and papillose 
-^ is a native of China and the Corean Archipelago. 
C. H. W. 
