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L. ochraceuni has been in cultivation for the last five 

 years in the Royal Botanic Garden here. At first it did 

 not do particularly well, but in 1920 it came up very 

 strongly and flowered freely. During the five years it 

 has been kept in a comparativel}^ exposed position in the 

 Rock Garden and has received no special attention. The 

 flowers on the first two days of opening tended to keep a 

 trumpet shape, but rapidly after that the perianth segments 

 were completely recurved to as full a Martagon shape as 

 anyone would wish. The leaves were 1-3-nerved, were 

 numerous, and showed a firm consistency with a tendency 

 to twist. Mr. Grove sent me a photograph of a specimen 

 he had some years ago under the name of L. ochraceuni, 

 showing the early stages of anthesis. He tells me that he 

 thought little of the plant, at that time considering it as a 

 very poor form of nepalense and not worth keeping. In 

 his photograph the crowded, twisted leaves are particularly 

 noticeable. 



We are now faced with the problem as to whether it is 

 possible to regard this whole series as one species. If I 

 interpret him aright, Mr. Wilson inclines to this view. I 

 admit that I have not, so far, found myself able to draw 

 a dividing line, but, though that may be inconsistent, I 

 cannot reconcile myself to regarding the whole as a unit. 

 Franchet's dry-region Lily is one thing botanically and 

 horticulturally, and the Nepal Lily is another. The 

 Burmese plants certainly form a bridge between the two. 



Before going farther, I wish to contrast various specimens 

 with Franchet's type of oclcraceuwt. Franchet's type was 

 the plant collected by Delavay at the foot of the Tchang- 

 chan, at an altitude of 3000 metres. I am informed by 

 Mr. Forrest that Delavay's Tchang-chan is the Tali Range 

 quite close to the town of Tali. The flowers of the type 

 are said to be yellow and unspotted. I take Forrest No. 

 4813, collected on the margins of open and mixed forests 

 on the eastern flank of the Tali Range to be identical with 

 the Paris type. Forrest describes the specimen as a plant 

 of 2-6 feet with fragrant flowers, olive-brown and purple. 

 The purple does not appear in spots, but diflused through 

 the lower inside part of the perianth. The type shows the 

 same colouring. In the Lichiang Range in dry situations 



