294 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxii 



Perianth widely open, about 10 cm. across nearly flat, 

 satiny pale rose spotted and blotched deep crimson ; seg- 

 ments of about the same length and width about 5 cm. 

 long and 2*5 cm. broad more or less ovate or ovate-lance- 

 olate, all entire and acuminate, the tip ciliate with club- 

 shaped short white processes; sepaline .segments without 

 a basal nectar gland but always with a darker spot at the 

 very base ; petaline segments bearing a basal dark-coloured 

 two-lobed nectariferous gland the large lobes separated 

 by the prominent midrib, each lobe with a free rounded 

 swollen not fringed or crested flap. Stamens about 1*7 

 cm. long ; filaments about equal in length to ovary slightly 

 flattened at very base, upwards dark-coloured and slightly 

 swollen as much as 1 mm. in diameter to about 1 mm. 

 below anther, pointed not rounded at top and passing 

 gradually into a thin subulate paler portion attached to 

 anther at about 2 mm. above its base ; anther about 7 mm. 

 long. Ovary about 1*2 cm. long oblong and widening 

 upwards, about 3"5 mm. in diameter at top, 6-angled, 6- 

 lobed at top, very finely shagreened ; style slightly shorter 

 than ovary about 1 cm. long clavate at top beneath the 

 trumpet-shaped 3-lobed stigma. 



E.N.W. Yunnan : — Mountains in the N.E. of the 

 Yangtze bend. Open alpine pasture. Alt. 13,000 ft. Lat. 

 27' 45' N. Plant o£ 2 ft. Flowers satiny pale rose, spotted 

 and blotched deep crimson, (j. Forrest. No. 10,620. 

 July 1913. 



In habit like N. leiwantha, but a mucli taller plant and 

 easily recognised by the nearly equal perianth- segments, 

 the non-crested petaline glands, the less swollen filaments 

 of the stamens not rounded at top of swollen portion. 



N^oriiocharis saliumrn.His, Balf. f.^ (Sect. Ecristata.) 



Glabrous tall herlj as much as 1 m. high. Roots thick 



fleshy. Bulb scaly oblong about 3 cm. long, scale-leaves 



' Nnmncliaris saluenensis, Balf. f. — Planta ad 1 m. alta. Biilbus 

 ob]oii<,'u.s squainatu.s. Caulis crassiusculus iiilernodis brevibus, supra 

 l)ull)uiii radicaiLS. Folia inferiora spar.sa, .sn peine j^er paria distribiita 

 lanceolata breviter acuiiiiiiata, ad 7 cm. longa 2 cm. lata. Klores 3 

 racemosi lati ; pedicelli folia aequaiites, divaricati. Periaiitliium albido 

 roseum maculatum patens ad 9 cm. diam. ; segmeiita sepalina oblongo- 

 ovalia ntrinque angustata .«nbobtusa evariciilosa eglandulosa ; petalina 

 paidlo longiora et latiora sidjelliplica apice lata oljtusa basi kermesino- 



