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vening rhizomatous portion characteristic of the plant 

 noted by Mr. Grove in " Gardeners' Chronicle," 16th August 

 1913,3rd series, vol. liv. ; the stem shows the same scab- 

 ridity as Prince Henri's plant ; the leaves of this plant lack 

 the white tufts, but are otherwise similar ; the flowers of 

 which there are two fully developed with remains of other 

 two are likewise similar ; the fully expanded perianth 

 segments show no remains of villosity. The second speci- 

 men of No. 186 has no bulb; the scabridity is very faint; 

 the leaves similar in form and consistency show traces of 

 the white tufts ; the inflorescence is ample, showing nine 

 fully developed flowers with remains of one or two un- 

 developed. They agree with the flowers of the previous 

 specimen, and show no villosity at this stage. The differ- 

 ences noted between the plants of these three sheets are all 

 practically negligible. I think Franchet's sutchuenense, 

 as based on these three/ is distinctly one species and not 

 two. I cannot bring the discriminating characters used in 

 the description of L. Thayerae into harmony with Prince 

 Henri's plant. The stem is if anything less rigid than in 

 No. 186. It is equally scabridulous ; No. 186 shows traces 

 of the white beards in the axils ; I can see no difference in 

 the leaves ; there is only a solitary flower. There is no 

 trace of villosity in the flower, whatever it may have shown 

 in the bud. The description of L. Thayerae, however 

 applicable to other specimens from Szechwan and Yunnan, 

 does not fit in with what Franchet had before him. The 

 three sheets are conspecific, and Franchet's sutchuenense 

 is a unit. I should note here that if Farges, No. 186, were 

 left as the type of sutchuenense then the plant noted by 

 Mr. Grove in " Gardeners' Chronicle," 16th August 1913, 

 vol. liv., p. 114, fig. 45, is not equivalent. No. 186, as 

 already noted, has a moderate-sized bulb from which the 

 stem arises straight, while the leaves are crowded, not 

 sparse. If the lily named sutchuenense in that article is 

 a good species it is not L. sutchuenense, Franch. The lily 

 with which it is contrasted is what was named later L. 

 Thayerae, and now L. Bavidi. But the characters given 



1 These three do not represent all the Paris material. I can speak 

 only of what I have seen. Mr. Wilson tells me in a letter from Paris 

 that he finds some of the material to be his JFillmotliae. 



