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Baker. There is also an addition to the series which will 

 be described later in this paper, L. Stewartianum, Balf. f. 

 et W. W. Sm., a very pretty, dwarfish Martagon, with 

 solitary flowers, allied closely to L. taliense. 



Of L. taliense several gatherings were made by Forrest. 

 One of these, No. 7022, comes from the eastern flank of 

 the Tali Range quite near to the area from which Delavay 

 collected the type. T have compared this Tali Range plant 

 of Forrest with Delavay 's type and it agrees exactly. 

 Forrest describes his jilants as from 2J-5 feet high with 

 the flowers pure white, spotted maroon, and fragrant. It 

 occurs amongst open and mixed scrub. Conspecific with 

 this is Forrest 2716 from the eastern flank of the Lichiang 

 Range, growing in open, shady, situations in mixed forests. 

 Forrest describes the plant as 4-8 feet high, the flowers 

 being pui-e waxy white, spotted purplish-lake, and fragrant. 

 The inflorescence has as many as seven flowers and is more 

 robust than Franchet's type with only one or two. Still 

 more robu.st is a plant collected by Forrest in the same 

 locality under No. 6152. Forrest describes this as from 

 4-10 feet high, with fragrant, white flowers, .spotted 

 crimson. One of the specimens shows ten flowers. 

 Forrest also collected a plant under No. 10,473 in 

 the mountains in the north-east of the Yangtze Bend. 

 The white, fragrant flowers are spotted purple, and the 

 plant is 4-5 feet high. The specimen of this number in 

 the Edinburgh herbarium bears eleven flowers. Beyond 

 diflerences in vigour those specimens show practically no 

 divergence from the type. In Franchet's key (J. de Bot., 

 vol. vi, p. 809) falieiise is given with " fleurs purpurines," 

 but in his description, p. 819, it is "albidi." The latter 

 is correct. 



As L. Stewartiannm, Balf, f. et W. W. Sm., is closely 

 akin it will be convenient to discuss it here. Forrest 

 found the type of this species in July 1918 on the moun- 

 tains on the north-east of the Yangtze Bend, No. 10,647. 

 The flowers are of a deep olive-yellow, but almost black 

 with deep crimson-maroon markings, and fragrant. This 

 plant he found again in July 1914 on the Chungtien 

 Plateau at 12,000 feet. No. 12,784. In July 1918 he also 

 discovered on the north-west ol' tiie Lichiang Range a 



