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or swollen below and gradually or suddenlj^ ending in a 

 needle-like tip ; anthers oblong dorsilixed, dehiscing 

 longitudinally at the • sides. Ovary sessile 3-locular, 

 3-angular, angles rounded ; style clavate short about 

 equalling ovary, trumpet-shaped at apex with 3-lobed 

 marginal stigma. Bulb squamate, scales fleshy elongated, 

 ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate. Stem simple, leafy. 

 Leaves alternate or whorled or both. Flowers showy, 

 stalked, nodding, solitary terminal or distant — as many as 

 6 — on long leafy racemes. 



A genus of some thirteen species from the Himalayas 

 and W. China. 



Three sections of the genus may be recognised : — 



1. Ox.ypetala. — Including iV. JVardii, Ward sp. No. 758, and the 



species described under Fritillaria as F. Jlavida, F. lojjhophora, 

 F. oxypetala, F. Stracheyi. 



2. Eunomocharis. — Including iV. leucantha, iV. Mairei, N. meleayrina^ 



N. pardanthina. 



3. Ecristata. — -Including N. Forrest ii, N. saluenensis, N. tricolor. 



The following are descriptions of new .species : — 



NoTYiocharis Forrestii, Balf. f.^ (Sect. Ecristata.) 



A tall growing glabrous plant reaching 1 m. or more. 

 Bulb scaly elongated, scales fleshy ovate-lanceolate at 

 first acuminate or acute, apex soon shrivelling and falling 

 off". Stem stout about 8 mm. in diameter below foliage- 

 leaves, rooting above the bulb. Foliage-leaves distant 

 solitary at the nodes below the inflorescence, where they 

 are paired, lanceolate long- acuminate as much as 7 cm. 

 long 2 cm. broad, dark green above, glaucous beneath, 

 conspicuously 3-veined with parallel subsidiary veins. 

 Flowers large distant in a 6-flowered (or more) raceme with 

 paired linear-lanceolate green leaves ; pedicels stiff" stout 

 about 2 mm. in diameter horizontal deflexed at tips. 



1 Nomocharis Forrestii, Balf. f. — Bulbus squamatus elongatus. Caulis 

 ad I m. vel ultra, >upra bulbuni radicans. Folia distantia, inferiora 

 spai'sa, superiora inter flores per paria verticillata, lanceolata longe 

 acuminata ad 7 cm. longa 2 cm. lata. Flores in raceniuni 6-florum laxe 

 dispositi ; pedicelli horizontaliter patentes ad apicem deflexi. Perian- 

 tliium late jjatens ad 10 cm. diam. pallide roseum nitens maculatuni 

 et basi kermesino-variculosum ; segmenta ovalia vel ovalia-lanceolata 

 accuminata, sub apice obscura limbx'iato Integra ; calycina eglandulosa ; 

 petalina basi bifoveolata foveolae cnjusque labio ecristato. Stamina 

 6 circ. 1'7 cm. longa ; filamenta ovarium subaequantia, infra inflata, in 

 apicem brevem subulatum attenuata ; untlierae infra medium dorsifixae. 



