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fleshy ovate-lanceolate acuminate the tip drying off. Stem 

 stout about 6 mm. in diameter below the foliage-leaves, 

 rooting above the bulb. Foliage-leaves solitary at the 

 nodes below the inflorescence, truly lanceolate as much 

 as 7 cm. long 2 cm. broad shortly acuminate, narrowed to 

 the base and there contracted into a short and broad 

 petiole some 5 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, conspicuously 

 3-5 veined with subsidiary parallel veinlets, apparently 

 concolorous above and below. Inflorescence racemose 

 3-flowered, leaves on the inflorescence-axis in pairs ; 

 flowers large on a stout more or less nodding pedicel about 

 same length as leaves. Perianth broad open approaching 

 9 cm. across, pale whitish rose with purplish rose spots on 

 all segments more or less ; sepaline segments oblong-oval 

 narrowed to both ends most to the tip, narrowly obtuse 

 ending in a conspicuous h3^dathodal mucro, 4*4 cm. long 

 2"2 cm. broad, unblotched at base, without a basal nectary ; 

 petaline segments slightly broader and shorter and over- 

 lapping the sepaline ones about 4 cm. long 2"4 cm. broad 

 sub-elliptic narrowed to both ends broadly obtuse at apex, 

 dark red-purple blotched at base and there provided with 

 two cushion-like pocket-nectaries one on each side of mid- 

 rib, flap of pocket not fringed nor crested. Stamens 6 

 about 1'4 cm. long; filaments about 1*1 cm. long flattened 

 at the base then terete swollen dark-coloured to about 

 1 mm. from end, tip subulate 1 mm. long pale coloured ; 

 anther about 6 mm. long oblong thick dorsitixed about the 

 middle. Gynaeceum about 1"2 cm. long; ovary about 

 7 mm. long shorter than filaments, 6-grooved the ridges 

 between grooves rounded, 6-lobulate at summit, slightly 

 wider at top, about 2-5 mm. in diameter; style clavate 

 about 5 mm. long, shorter than ovary, trumpet-shaped at 

 top with 3-lobed marginal stigmas. 



N.W. Yunnan : — Mekong-Sal ween divide. Open moist 

 situations. Alt. 9000-10,500 ft. Lat. 28" 12' N. Plant 

 of 2-3 ft. Flowers pale whitish rose marked purplish 

 rose on interior. G. Forrest. No. 493. Sept. 1904. 



This is one of the plants referred to Lilium apertutn 



variciilosa biglandulosa glandulae labio integro ecristato efimbriato cres- 

 centico. Stamina ad 1 '4 cm. longa ; filamenta ovario paullo longiora infra 

 paullo inflata in apicem subulatum ad 1 mm. longum attenuata ; antherae 

 circ. medium dorsifixae. 



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