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On the evidence before me I cannot justify the reduction 

 of this species, at any rate meanwhile, to anj^ previously 

 described species. It is a near ally of ochraceiiin. See 

 Plates v., VI. 



Of this alliance there remains to be considered only L. 

 primiilimim, Baker. I have no acquaintance with this 

 species in cultivation, but a recent examination of the type 

 leads me to consider it as a colour variant of the Burmese 

 form of L. nepalense. The purplish blotching so character- 

 istic of the rest of the series is here lacking. Like its 

 Burmese relative it occupies an intermediate position 

 between Eulirion and Martagon, as was pointed out by 

 Baker in describing the species. 



I shall now try to summarise the foregoing pages. I 

 look upon L. ochraceiiin, Francli., as a good species of the 

 Martagon group extending from the Tali and Lichiang 

 Ranges eastwards towards Yunnan-sen, East Yunnan, and 

 still farther to Kweichow. It also extends into the south- 

 east in the neighbourhood of Szemao and Mengtze. In 

 Eastern Yunnan there is the allied L. Tenii, Levi. L. 

 ochraceum, in the experience of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, is a hardy lily. At the other extreme of the 

 area of the series is the trumpet-shaped Nepal Lily con- 

 fined in its typical form to the Central and North-West 

 Himalaya. According to the uniform experience of culti- 

 vators this is not a hardy species. In the country running 

 from Tengyueh over the Chino-Burmese frontier into Upper 

 Burma we have a region of great variability of the series 

 contrasting strongly with the comparative homogeneity of 

 ochraceum and of nepalense in the other areas. The stem 

 may be quite smooth to quite scabrid ; the leaves may be 

 linear and grass-like and of very thin consistency, or they 

 may be long lanceolate and flaccid, or broadly and shortly 

 lanceolate and of firm consistency ; the flowers show a 

 t3'pe of perianth intermediate between Martagon and 

 Eulirion ; they may be heavily blotched with purple or 

 they may be quite unblotched as in L. privxulinum. 

 These variations do not appear restricted to any definite 

 geographical area but intermingle. I doubt whether any 

 of them can be called truly equivalent to the Nepal Lily. 

 I suggest, therefore, the varietal appellation of hurinanicum 



