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I now refer to plants collected by Henry at Mengtze 

 Xos. 9320 and 9320a. The specimens in the herbaria of 

 Kew and Edinburgh under these numbers agree with 

 ochraceurii in bulb, stem, leaf, and flower. 



In eastern Yunnan, near Yunnan-sen, E. E. Maire 

 collected a lily (No. 937 in Herb. Edin.) with this descrip- 

 tion : " Lys bronze a I'interieur, rouge sombre a I'exterieur, 

 petales en volutes exterieures ; altitude 2350 m. ; tres rare." 

 It has glabrous stems, short, crowded leaves of firm con- 

 sistency, and small flowers with the segments completely 

 recurved to the true Martagon form. It is ocliracewni as 

 one would expect it to occur in the drier east Yunnan. 



Before attempting to sum up the evidence it might be 

 well to look first at the species of this alliance described 

 by Leveille from eastern Yunnan and Kweichow. 



L. Bodinieri, Levi. MSS. in Herb. Levi. — Leveille later 

 reduced his species, incorrectly, to L. apertum, Fr., and as 

 such it appears in his Flore de Kouy-Tcheou. His speci- 

 mens are all referable to the ochraceum of dry eastern 

 Yunnan. 



L. Feddei, Levi, in Fedde Repert. Nov. Spec, xi (1912), 

 303. — Mr. Wilson, Mr. Forrest, and myself have examined 

 the type together and agree that it is taliense. The range 

 of this .species is thus widened. 



L. majoense, Levi, in Fedde Repert. Nov. Spec, vi (1909), 

 265, is a form of L. ochraceum, Fr. — The flowers are in a 

 very poor state of preservation, but agree exactly with 

 those of ocJiraceum. Some of the leaves are quite typical ; 

 others, detached, are very long and flaccid with a very 

 acuminate base. 



There is also L. Tenii, Levi, in Fedde Repert. Nov. 

 Spec, vi (1909), p. 263. — This is a puzzling plant. The 

 flowers are quite those of a small oc/traceu7n. The leaves 

 of the type are broadly-lanceolate with a very broad 

 insertion, and lack entirely the attenuate-base characters 

 of the whole ocJtraceum-nepalense series. Even in the 

 many variations noted above in the series, I can find nothing 

 quite like the leaves of Tenii. Another point, and one, too, 

 noted by Leveille, is the peculiar resupinate fruit. The 

 fruiting specimens show the leaf-form porliaps even more 

 markedly — some of the leaves having 9-Jl distinct nerves. 



