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in favour of the specific distinctness of this lily (in plate 

 45) do not impress me in view of what follows. 



I bring in here some observations on the plants of this 

 series collected in Yunnan by Forrest and others as they 

 form an interesting corollary. Forrest collected " Pei-Ho," 

 a plant of 2|-6 feet, with orange-scarlet flowers with 

 crimson markings in the Licliiang Valley (No. 6391;. He 

 notes that it is cultivated by the Chinese and natives who 

 use the bulb as an article of diet. The flowers and buds of 

 these specimens show distinct but not copious villosity 

 along the median line of the perianth segment. The 

 villosity obviously tends to be easily deciduous. Mr. 

 Wilson has noted this specimen as L. Davidi. On Forrest, 

 No. 8429, collected in the Mingkwong Valley, Forrest notes 

 the flowers as deep salmon-red, spotted deep purple-lake. 

 He finds it on dry, open situations amongst rocks, un- 

 doubtedly wild on the hills, but cultivated by the inhabit- 

 ants of the Tengyueh and adjacent valleys for the bulb 

 which is sold as an article of food under the name of 

 " Pei-Ho." The specimens are from 1- to 4-flowered; the 

 bulb is on the small side ; one of the buds shows a villosity 

 comparable to the figure of Davidi in Elwes' Monograph. 

 This is also named Davidi by Mr. Wilson. 



No. 4814, collected in the Tali Valley, named Davidi by 

 Mr. Wilson, has a many-flowered inflorescence ; the buds 

 and flowers are almost glabrous, but there are indications 

 of villosity on some of the perianth segments. 



No. 14,663, collected on the Mekong-Salween Divide on 

 open rocky slopes and on clifls, is a wild specimen ; the 

 bulb is missing, but there is an indication of a certain 

 amount of rhizomatous growth before the development of 

 the stem exactly comparable to the figure attached to Mr. 

 Grove's paper referred to ; the leaves are crowded, well- 

 bearded at the axils ; tliey, moreover, show the scabridity 

 which is noted in the description of Thayerae ; the buds 

 are glabrous. I call attention to this specimen as illus- 

 trating how this wild form touches both Thayerae and 

 sutchuenense as described. 



A plant collected by Monbeig in 1907, No. 264, and 

 probably wild, shows a rliizomatous growth, but a very 

 scabrid stem ; the leaves are crowded and somewhat 



