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spotted brown, he places Davidi and Fargesii. In the 

 third section with orange-red or bright red flowers he 

 places siitchuenense, teiiuifoliiun, tigrinum, and pseiLdo- 

 tigrinum. The first of these three sections may stand. 

 The division line between the other two sections is difficult 

 to draw, and I doubt its correctness. We have seen that 

 Elwes judged the colour from the dried specimen to have 

 been orange, while Franchet calls the flowers of Davidi 

 " lutei," basing his opinion, if we take the written record, 

 on Elwes' figure, ex icons citato. When Franchet came to 

 describe Fargesii and sutchuenense he separated the former 

 from Davidi b}^ its glabrous perianth and by the numerous 

 fimbriate lamellae on the perianth segments. But when he 

 described sutchuenense he made no comparison with Davidi. 

 I emphasise these points here because they are of moment 

 when we come to deal with siitcJtuenense and Thayerae. 

 This is all that is known in herbaria of L. Davidi under 

 that name. It has not been in cultivation under that name. 

 In the original diagnosis of L. sutchuenense (Journ. de 

 Bot., vi, 1892, 318) Franchet based his description on 

 plants collected in two distinct areas, some collected by 

 Prince Henri d'Orleans near Tatsien-lou, and some collected 

 by Farges in the mountains near Tchen-keou-tin, also in 

 the province of Szechwan. These were accepted as con- 

 specific until comparatively recently. But for Szechwan 

 plants coming into cultivation the question would probably 

 not have arisen as the types are in the Paris herbarium, 

 and duplicates in other herbai'ia rare. Seed was sent by 

 the Abbe Fai'ges to M. Maurice L. de Vilmorin. The lily 

 flowered for the first time in 1897, and was recognised as 

 L. sutchuenense, Franchet, and so named. A good account 

 is given of it by M. Mottet in Revue Horticole, Ixxi (1899), 

 p. 475, fig. 204. Kew received it from Messrs. Vilmorin in 

 1897 and it flowered in July 1899. It was subsequently 

 figured in the Bot. Mag., t. 7715. A large quantity of 

 bulbs was sent from Szechwan by Mr. E. H. Wilson in 

 1904 to Messrs. Veitch. These were from Tatsien-lou 

 where Mr. Wilson says they were common, and frequently 

 cultivated by the peasants. That explorer found it growing 

 in great abundance on rock}', grass-clad slopes of the 

 Chino-Tibetan frontier at altitudes from 7000-9000 ft. 



