298 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxu 



with midrib and two latei'al veins conspicuous and some 

 subsidiary parallel nerves. Flower solitary terminal with 

 a long stout brown glossy pedicel as much as 8 cm. long 

 V5 mm. in diameter, straight erect to nodding swollen apex. 

 Perianth openlj^ concave about 9 cm. across yellow un- 

 spotted blotched at the base; segments similar in form 

 narrowly ovate-lanceolate tapering to a long acuminate 

 point which is obscurely fimbriate ; calycine about 4 cm. 

 long 1 cm. broad, basal blotch small, eglandular; petaline 

 about 3"7 cm. long 1'2 cm. broad with a 2-lobed basal 

 gland half on each side of prominent midrib, each lobe 

 yellow-fringed the fringe or crest running upwards for a 

 very short way along the midrib. Stamens 6 about 1'8 cm. 

 long; filaments about 1"2 cm. long longer than ovary 

 slightly flattened at very base, slightly swollen upwards to 

 about 1 mm. from top then attenuate in a subulate tip; 

 anther about 9 mm. long shortly apiculate dorsifixed about 

 3 mm. from base. Gynaeceum about 2 cm. long; ovary 

 oblong pyriform 6-angled, angles rounded faintly 6-tuber- 

 cled at summit; style about 1-2 cm. long clavate beneath 

 the trumpet-shaped end with marginal 8-lobed stigma. 



S.E. Tibet : — Doker La. Open grassland. Shrub and 

 forest belt. Alt. 13,000-14,000 ft. F. Kingdon Ward. 

 No. 741. July 1913. 



S.E. Tibet: — Ka-gwr-pw. Alpine meadow turf. Alt. 

 15,000 ft. F. Kingdon Ward. No. 813. 19.7.13. 



A beautiful species not yet in cultivation. Its nearest 

 ally is the plant described by Franchet as Fritillaria 

 lo'phopliora^ afterwards renamed by him Lilium lopho- 

 phorum.^ Ward's plant can be recognised by its grass- 

 like foliage and the many more leaves which each stem 

 bears. I do not find on the petaline segments of N. 

 Wardii any marginal fimbriation at the base such as 

 characterises Franchet's species, and is perhaps more con- 

 stant than Franchet supposed to be the case. 



This F. lophopJcora of Franchet has particular interest in 

 relation to the queHti<ni of the limits of the genua Nomo- 

 charis which we have been considering. When he described 



1 Franchet in Journ. de But., v (1891), 153 ; Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PL, 

 xxiii (1894), t. 2219. 



2 Franchet in .Journ. de Jiot., xii (1898), 221. 



