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on stony pasture. In the development of its bulb it is 

 very similar to L. Duchartrei. 



V. 



L, Bakerianum, Coll. et Hemsl., and its Allies. 



We have in this group a good illustration of the over- 

 lapping in nomenclature which has resulted from the more 

 or less contemporaneous description some thirty years ago 

 of Yunnan species at Paris and Burmese species at Kew. 

 Geographically the two areas are continuous and the flora 

 has much in common, especially in genera where there 

 tends to be a wide distribution of individual species as is 

 the case in Liliuiii. The Burmese representatives are L. 

 Bakerianum and L. Loivii. The species described by 

 Franchet which pertain to this group are L. Delavayi and 

 L. yunnanense. Fianchet in his key, Journ. de Bot., xii 

 (1898), 308, associated with these two the following : — 

 L. formoswm, L. inyriophyllum, and L. concolor. 



The last mentioned has little in common with the group 

 and may be at once left out. Although placed by Franchet 

 among the lilies with perianth " regulierement evase de 

 la base au sommet," forinosmn and myriophylluin have 

 their affinity in the longifiorum- Wallichianum series and 

 need never be confused with the Bakerianum group. L. 

 Henrici, Franchet, Journ. de Bot., xii (1898), 220, is stated 

 by its author to be near Delavayi : — • 



" Le L. Henrici peut-etre place au voisinage du L. 

 Delavayi, dont il difFere bien nettement par la coloration 

 de ses fleurs", ses longs pedoncules et ses feuilles allongees, 

 tres rapprochees sur la tige." 



Allowing that Henrici is correctly referred to Lilium, 

 it has no close connection with the Bakerianum series, 

 but in point of fact as regards habit and structure of the 

 flower it comes very near to Nomocharis of which genus 

 it may be a member. There is also L. linceorum, Levi., 

 which as I have shown is only Delavayi {supra, p. 139). 

 Finally there is L. sempervivoideum, Levi., which has 

 claims to specific distinctness. There are consequently 

 five lilies for comparison within the Bakerianum group : — 



