136 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxvi 



to these variable Burmese plants, retaining also the name 

 L. iwimidiniiin for the well-marked canary-yellow plant 

 without blotches. The other species of the alliance, 2^oly- 

 pltyllum, Steivartianum, and taliense are comparatively 

 easily discriminated from the foregoing and from each 

 other. 



I submit a key to the species discussed above. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



I. Martagon typeof perianth — completely 

 revolute. 



* Flowers with white ground-colour . taliense 

 ** Flowers with yellow or greenish- 

 yellow ground-colour. 



+ Stems always 1-fld. . . Stewartianum 



tt Stems usually 2-10-fld. 



I AVest Himalayan species with 



narrow elongate bulb . poljfphylluin 



II Chinese Sj^ecies. 



i^ Leaves with cuneate base . ochraceum 

 §§ Leaves with rounded Ixise ; 



fruit small, resupinate . Tenii 

 II. Intermediate type of perianth between 

 Martagon and Eulirion. 



* Flowers heavily blotched inside 



with purple . . nepaUiue var. burmanicum 



** Flowers canary - yellow, un- 



l)lotched . . . nepalense var. 'primidinum 



III. Archelirion-Eidirion typeof ])erianth 

 with segments .sjireading 

 from the upper third . neimlense var. typicum 



INDEX TO NAMES llELATING TO LILIUM TALIENSE 

 AND ITS ALLIES. 



Liliura aiiertum, Levi, in Flore de Kony-Tclieou, \>. 25, nee Franch. 

 = ochraceam. 



L. Jlodinieri, Levi. MSS. in Herl). Li''vl. = ochraceum. 



L. claptonense, Hort. Low. ='primulinum.. 



L. Feddei, Levi, in Fedde Re pert. Nov. Spec, xi (1912) 303. =taliense. 



L. majoense, Levi, in Fedde Repert. Nov. Spec, vi (1909), 265. 

 = ochr(iceam. 



L. neilgherrense, Collet. & Ilemsl. in Jour. Linn. Soc, xxviii (1891), 138, 

 nee Wight. =primulinum. 



L. nepalense, D. Don in Trans. Wern. Soc, iii (1821), 412. North- 

 West aurl Central Himalaya. 



var. burmanicum, W. W. Sni. Uiiper Lurma and Burnio- 

 Yunnan frontier. 



var. primulinum (I5akei'). li])per Lurma. 



