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7-nerved. The inflorescence is anything from 1- to 7- 

 flowered. Here is a plant which in the bud condition 

 and also in the flower might well invite confusion with 

 L. nepalense. The perianth is recurved from the lower 

 third and is that of a Martagon. The plant has the 

 characteristics which one might expect in a lily of the 

 dry region transferred to a region more influenced by the 

 monsoon rains. 



Coming farther west to Upper Burma and the Chinese- 

 Burmese frontier, I find the series represented by three 

 separate gatherings. Forrest collected under No, 18,280, 

 in July 1919, a lily 4-5 feet high with fragrant, olive- 

 yellow flowers, the interior and exterior flushed deep 

 purple. The leaves are of thin texture, very long and 

 narrow, almost grass-like, the stem somewhat scabrid, the 

 perianth large with the segments recurved from below the 

 middle. The second specimen, collected by Forrest under 

 No. 18,378 from the Mekong-Salween Divide, has perfectly 

 smooth stems, very long, thin, narrowly-lanceolate leaves, 

 and fragrant, dull olive-yellow flowers. The third specimen 

 was collected by the late Mv. Farrer on Hpimaw Hill and 

 he, without hesitation, labelled it nepalense. Under his 

 No. 1122, he states that it is "common on the open slopes 

 of Hpimaw Hill. The flowers are clear yellow, sweetly 

 scented, with brown-purple centre. It attains 7 feet and 

 handsomely emerges from amidst the bracken." His 

 specimen has long, narrowly-lanceolate leaves of firm con- 

 sistency, 3-5 nerved, with a flower almost the recorded 

 size of L. nepalense, and the perianth segments appear to 

 be recurved from about the middle ; the stem is perfectly 

 smooth and shiny. The collection of these three specimens 

 from practically the same area is sufficient to show that 

 we have to deal with a very variable plant and that to 

 suggest names for all these variations is quite unnecessary. 

 The Burman plant collected by Mr. Fairer I cannot dis- 

 tinguish from the Central Himalayan by any distinct 

 character. I have recently had an opportunity of examining 

 again the specimens of L. nepalense in the Kew herbarium. 

 In the majority of these the leaves are long and flaccid, 

 but in one of the specimens from Gossain-than, Nepal, the 

 leaves are firm in texture and the flowers 5 inches long. 



