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stoues principally. L. lankongense is in the type sheet 

 ver}' much dwarfed. The characters of the bulb and 

 rhizome, of the leaves, and of the details of the flower 

 correspond very closely with L. Duchartrei. The presence 

 of leaves towards the base of the stem seems to me to be 

 conditioned by the absence or sparse production of other 

 plants or herbage in the vicinity. Mr. Forrest, Mr. Wilson, 

 and I have examined the type together and agree that it 

 represents nothing more than a dwarfish state of L. 

 Dtichartrei, Franch. 



When I named L. Forrestii I had, as I thought, no 

 adequate material of L. Duchartrei available and I laid 

 undue stress on the yellowish-rose ground-colour. Mr. 

 Wilson, who examined the types, gave it as his opinion 

 that it is also a form of Duchartrei. The leaves are 

 shorter and broader than what obtains in typical Duchar- 

 trei, but Mr. Wilson is right, and I accept the reduction. 

 It is only a form of that species at most and not worthy 

 of even a varietal name. 



L. Farreri, Turrill, was collected by Mr. Farrer in 

 Kansu in 1914 under No. 183, No dried specimens of it 

 were sent home by Mr. Farrer. The plants were grown in 

 this country in several places from seeds forAvarded by Mr. 

 Farrer. When Mr. Farrer first found it he was remote 

 from books and thought that he had possibly stumbled on 

 the L. Davidi of Elwes' Monograph. I quote from " Gard. 

 Chron.," 3rd series, vol. Ivii, j). 1 (2.1.15), what he says of it : — 



" All the banks are aflame with the scarlet of Liliwm 

 tenuifolium amid mounded lavender masses of a very 

 delightful Aster of acris relationship, which always forms 

 into a neat round dome, and flowers simultaneously in 

 such profusion that you can see its crowded blobs of lilac 

 from far away on the green hills, amid the fiery haze of 

 the lilies. There is another lily, too, but this is i-arer, and 

 begins only at higher elevati(ms, in a more limited district. 

 It haunts cool mountain slopes and river banks amid the 

 coppice. I cannot perfectly recall the figure of L. Davidi 

 (which I incline to believe this lily to be), or I could be 

 more certain as to what is, or is not, the name of this. 

 L. Davidi on its recent introduction was hailed as a 



