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var. thibeticum, Frauch. in Plantae Forrestianae.^ It is not 

 the same as Forrest No. 457 referred to the same variety. 

 No. 457 is not a Nomocharis, and I do not deal with it here, 

 for the material is hardly adequate for critical decision upon 

 its proper place. Forrest No. 493 is certainly not Lilium, 

 apertum, Franch. It may be the plant Franchet referred 

 to L. dpertum var. thibeticum, which from the diagnosis 

 Franchet gives and in the light of present knowledge I 

 doubt being a variety of his L. apertunn. In default of 

 actual specimens I cannot decide. Were there certainty, 

 Franchet's varietal name might be attached to this species 

 of Nomocharis, but in the circumstances confusion in 

 nomenclature may be avoided by naming it as I have done 

 iV^. saluenense, leaving to future investigation the settle- 

 ment of relation to L. apertum var. thibeticum. 



The species is a distinct one in the genus. One of 

 Monbeig's plants under No. 68/1912 in the Edinburgh 

 Herbarium, collected near Tseku, is a Nomocharis and a 

 near ally of N. saluenensis, but the material is not sufficient 

 for certain diagnosis. 



Nom^ocJiuris tricolor, Balf. f." (Sect. Ecristata.) 



Glabrous plant as much as 35 cm. high. Bulb scaly 

 ovate-oblong about 3 cm. long, scales fleshy ovate-lanceo- 

 late acuminate. Stem fleshy rooting above the bulb, about 

 2'5 mm. in diameter below the foliage-leaves. Foliage- 

 leaves single at the nodes below, more or less paired or 

 in whorls of three towards tlic top, lanceolate shortly 

 acuminate 4-5 cm. long about 1"2 cm. broad more or less, 

 dark green above, paler somewhat glaucous beneath, with 

 three conspicuous nerves and some subsidiary parallel ones. 

 Flower large soHtary terminal erect or slightly nodding; 

 pedicel stout about 3'5 cm. long. Perianth openly concave 



1 Notes R.B.G. Edin., vii (1912), 38. 



"^ Nomocharis tricolor, Balf. f. — Bulbus squamatus. Caulis ad 1 m. 

 vel ultra, supra Inilbum radicans. Folia spar.«a superne plus luinusve 

 2-3-verticillata, lanceolata acuminata 4-5 cm. louga, ad r2 cm. lata, 

 suhtus pallida .subglauca. Flores solitarii ad 8 cm. lati ; pedicelli ad 

 3'5 cm. loiigi. Pcrianthium aperte concavum roseum luteo-oculatum 

 basi rufesceiiti-maculatum et variculosum ; segmenta subae({ualia ovalia 

 vel oblongo-ovalia acuminata apice exce])ta integra ; ciilyciua eglandu- 

 losa ; jtetaliiia basi Vjifovt;olata foveolae cujusque parvulae labio ecristato. 

 Stamina ad lb cm. lunga ; filamenta ovai'io suljloni^iora, infra inllata, in 

 apicem brevem subulalum attenuata ; antlierae circ. medium dorsifixae. 



