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Don, as Fritillaria Macro^jhylla, and Mr. Baker, in his revision of the 

 Tuh'pea3 (Linnean Society's Journal, vol. xiv.) retains this name for it, 

 placing- in it a sub-genus having the floral characters of Lilium, and the 

 scariously coated bulbs and distinctly three-lobed style of Fritillaria. 

 Messrs. Loddiges, imported and flowered it about the year 1844, and it 

 was figured in the " Botanical Register " under the name of L. Thump, 

 sonianum. Mr. Baker's description, drawn up from a number of dried 

 and living plants will aid in giving an idea of the general range of 

 variability of this species. Bulb, ovoid, 1 inch thick, clothed with several 

 scai'ious coats 2 inches thick, or more in length, striped on the outside, 

 and bearing bulblets in their axils, stem, H to 3 feet high, erect, round, 

 and smooth, leaves, 20 to 30 directed upwards, narrow, bearing bulblets 

 in their axils, lower ones crowded, 12 to 18 inches long, 3 to 4^ lines 

 broad, upper ones looser and shorter; flower spike 12 to 18 inches long, 

 bearing (j to 30 flowers, flowers when expanded, 3 to 4tV inches across, 

 lower ones nodding, upper ones smaller, half erect. A native of Afghanistan 

 and the North West Himala^-as." — ir. B. Henisley, Garden, vol. 12, p. 136. 

 Fritillaria IlooJieri. — Baker, n. sp. — Closely allied to the last, 

 but clearly distinct from it specifically. Bulb quite similar iu shape 

 aud vestiture, but considerably smaller. Stem more flexuose^ at 

 most only a foot long, much more slender, not more than a line thick 

 at the base, quite glabrous, like the rest of the plant. Leaves 

 similar in shape and texture, but much fewer, not more than 6 — 9, 

 all laxly scattered, not aggregated towards the base as in the other 

 species, with 10 — 12 subequal nerves, the lowest 5 — 6 inches long. 

 Raceme subsecund, 2 — 8 flowered, 3 — G inches long ; lower pedicels 

 ascending, 6 — 9 inches long; upper pedicels shorter, cei-nuous. Bracts, 

 linear, 1 — H inch long. Perianth, in the lower flowers, 15 — 16 lines, 

 in the upper, about an inch long, so far a.'^ can be judged from dried 

 specimens, just like that of lloseum in colour, direction, and texture ; 

 divisions, oblanccolate, bluntish, J to g inch broad, narrowed gradually 

 to the base. Ovary, clavate, ;] — -J inch long; style, 7 — 8 lines long; 

 stigmas linear, 1 lino long. Capsule, oblong or obovoid, ^ — f. inch 

 long, bluntly lobed. Filaments, very slender, nearly straight, 8 — 12 

 lines long ; anthers, linear-oblong, 2 lines long. 



Discovered by Dr. Hooker in the temperate region of the Sikkini Himalayas, at an 

 elevation above the sea-level of 9,0C0 to 1(),000 feet, in 1849. 



It is figured in " BoL Mag.," tab. 6385, also in '' Gard. Chron.," 1871, p. 201, 

 and is said to be restricted to the valley of Lacking, Sikkim. Flowers .3 to 8 in a lax 

 raceme, perianth funnel-shaped, pale rose lilac, floweis from 1 to 1^ inch long. It 

 flowered in 1877 Mith Jlr. Max Leichtlin. 



Sara.na Kamsliotdicnse, often called the Blue Lily. — F. KamfscJiat- 

 censis, Gawl., Bot. Mag., Sub., t. 1216; Eegel, GartenfL, t. 17o. — 

 A well-known and peculiar form, having an annual bulb, common in 

 the northerly regions of Siberia, Asia, America, and Japan, bearing a 

 small bell-shaped dark purple flower ; it is rather a difficult bulb to 

 flower, and very impatient of change of place ; it has been well- 

 flowered at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden by the late Mr. James 

 McNab. 



