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" Mountains of the Cliungtien plateau. Lat. 27° 30' N. 

 Alt. 12,000. July 1911 Duplicate of 1913." G. Forrest. 

 No. 12,734. 



The following with less darkh^ spotted perianth is the 

 same species. 



" West China. — N.W. flank of the Lichiang Range, 

 Yunnan, on ledges of limestone cliffs and stony pasture. 

 Lat. 27° 35' N. Alt. 12,000 feet. Plant of 2 feet. Flowers 

 greenish-yellow, profusely spotted maroon, fragrant. July 

 1913." G. Forrest. No. 10,659. 



I come now to L. ochraceum. There has been much 

 confusion regarding this species. The identification of 

 species from W. Yunnan and Northern Burma is involved 

 in many cases owing to the fact that Franchet described 

 so many plants from the standpoint of the Paris herbarium, 

 while others from the same area were described from the 

 standpoint of Indian and Burmese collections in the her- 

 baria of Kew, Calcutta, and the British Museum. Paris 

 lacks reliable sheets of many Indian species, while, con- 

 versely, in this country authentic representations of many 

 of Franchet's species are unavailable. This is obvious in 

 manj^ genera besides L ilium. In the present instance L. 

 nepalense, D. Don, is the plant from which L. ochraceurti 

 can only with some difficulty be distinguished. In his 

 diagnosis of L. ochraceum, Franchet makes no reference to 

 L. nepalense. This was hardly to be expected as Franchet 

 dealt with ochraceum as a lily with its perianth segments 

 completely recurved at the end of anthesis — that is, he 

 treated it as a Martagon in the strict sense. We shall see 

 whether Franchet was justified in his assumption. L. 

 nepalense has since been recorded from both Yunnan and 

 Northern Burma. The first Burma record (Collett and 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxviii, p. 138) was later 

 seen to be an error and the plant identified as L. nepalense 

 was subsequently named L. Lowii, Baker (Bot. Mag., tab. 

 7232). L. primtilinu'in on its discovery in Upper Burma 

 was referred first of all to L. neilg/terrense and its affinity 

 with L. nepalense was not suggested. But in addition to 

 these there is undoubtedly to be found in Upper Burma 

 and on the Chinese-Burmese frontier a lily almost indis- 

 tino-uishable, perhaps indistinguishable, from L. nepalense. 



