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amongst scrub, Forrest found a lily, No. 2869, with olive- 

 yellow flowers, veined and edged maroon ; some of the 

 upper leaves are 8-nerved, while the stem is " levissimus " 

 except at the very base. This is obviouslj^ conspecific. So 

 also is Xo. 6465 from the eastern flank of the Lichiang 

 Range, greenish-yellow flowers with crimson markings ; 

 also No. 10,879 from the Tong Shan in the Yangtze Bend, 

 a plant of 5 feet, flowers yellow with maroon markings. 

 The two last cited collections have longer and more 

 membranous leaves than the tlrst two and the type. In 

 their shape and consistency they closely approach those of 

 typical nepalense. 



The above come from a fairly well defined geographical 

 area. The next two show a divergence. They come from 

 the south-west of Yunnan, one from the neighbourhood of 

 Tengyueh from a lava-bed (No. 8930), and one from the 

 Tai-ping-Irrawadi Divide (No. 9080). They are not identical 

 with one another, and neither of them with the t^'pe. 

 They exceed the type in robustness. No. 8930 attains 

 9 feet, according to Mr. Forrest. The flowers are dull 

 greenish-yellow, interior base deep crimson-maroon, and 

 are fragrant as those of the typical series. The chief 

 difficulty is in the papillose scabridity of the stem through- 

 out its whole length. Typical ochraceum has the stem 

 "levissimus." The papillose scabridity is present only at 

 the very base of the stem in certain of the plants which 

 I have admitted above as equivalent to Franchet's type. 

 Is this scabridity to be correlated with vigour of growth ? 

 In view of the general agreement in other characters, I 

 do not feel justified in giving even a varietal name to 

 this form. 



No. 9080 is a stout plant attaining, it is true, only 

 4 feet, according to Mr. Forrest, but showing verj^ much 

 larger and Ijroader leaves in the upper half and also larger 

 flowers. These Mr. Forrest records as olive-yellow and 

 maroon, and states that they are non-fragrant. The bulb 

 is that of L. ocltraceuni and likewise the leaves in the 

 lower half of tlie stem. The scabi-idity is that of No. 

 8930, tliough scai-cely so pronounced. The upper leaves 

 attain 4 inches and are 3-nerved ; the leafy bracts of the 

 inflore.scence are quite f-inch wide and 5-nerved or even 



