352 CLVI. LILIAOB2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Lilium. 



side, white within speckled with long purple streaks j segments oblanceolate, f in. 

 broad ; style very declinate. 



Sect. III. Bulb with dark brown scarious coats. Leaves linear. 

 Stamens not spreading. Stigmas 3-fid, lobes short, narrow, recurved. 



NOTHOLIRION. 



10. Zi. Thomsonianum, Royle III. t. 92 ; stem 2-4 ft. very many-fld. 

 Duchart. Obs. Gen. Lis. 68. L. roseum, Wall. Cat. 5077 B; Belgic. 

 Hortic. 1854, 129, cum Ic. ; Berlin Gartenz. 1884, 414, f. 125 ; Gard. GTiron. 

 1884, i. 772, fig. 145. L. longifolium, Griff. Itin. Notes, 345 ; Notul 241 ; 

 Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 277. Fritillaria, Thomsoniana, Don in Royle III. 388 ; 

 JKunth Enum. iv. 672. Notholirion macrophyllum, Boiss. FL Or. v. 191, 

 excl. syn. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 5-7000 ft.; from Kumaon to Kashmir. DISTEIB. 

 Affghanistan. 



Bulb 2-2 in., formed of lanceolate fleshy inner scales (bulbils) covered by dark 

 brown loose scarious longitudinally undulate scales. Stem very stout. Leaves 8-12 

 by -5 in., flaccid, narrowed to very fine points. Raceme dense-fid., 1-2 ft. long ; 

 bract* lanceolate ; pedicels short, stout. Flowers 2-2% in. long, sweet-scented, pale 

 rose or rose-purple, segments narrowly spatbulate, nectary 0. Filaments long ; style 

 much longer than the ovary, tip upcurved. Capsule 1 in. 



11. L. roseum, Wall. Cat. 5077 A. ; stem 12-20 in. few-fld. Duchart. 

 Obs. Gen. Lis. 68 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4725. L. Thomsonianum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 1845, t. 1. L. Hookeri, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1871, 201. Fritillaria 

 Hookeri, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 269 ; in Bot. Mag. t. 6385. ? F. 

 macrophylla, Don Prodr. 61. Notholirion roseum, Wall. mss. in Bot, Mag. 

 under t. 4725. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, at Mussoori (Bot. Reg.) ; Nepal, Wallich ; 

 Sikkim, alt. 9-10,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A much smaller plant than L. Thomsonianum, with the bulb 1 in. l n g> the 

 stem 1-2 ft., and the flowers varying from rose pink to pale lilac ; but Wallich was 

 probably right in thinking them varieties of one. Notholirion was taken up as a 

 genus by Boissier and rightly attributed by him to Wallich, whose mention of it as a 

 genus (not a section) was overlooked in Gen. Plant. Don's F. macrophylla, from 

 Nepal, Wallich, with 3-4 flowers and a trifid stigma, must be meant for this plant, 

 though he describes the flowers as yellow. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



L. NANUM, Klotzsch Bot. Reis. Erget. Waldem, 53 ; leaves linear grassy subobtuse 

 strict erect 5-nerved, flowers small drooping campanulate white, perianth segments 

 sessile oblong obtuse, stigma thickened trigonous puberulous, filaments subulate, 

 anthers oblong "obtuse base obtusely 2-fid. Western Himalaya, Hojfmeister . 

 (Translated from Klotzsch, I.e. 1 cannot imagine what it is.) 



22. FRITILLARIA, Linn. I 



Characters of Lilium, but perianth campanulate or with segments 

 spreading from near the naked or bearded base, nectaries usually broad, 

 stigmas 3-fid with short spreading truncate divisions (as in Sect. 

 III. of Lilium), rarely capitate and 3-lobed. Species about 50, N. temp, 

 regions. 



* Flowers solitary. Perianth segments spreading from near the base ; 

 stigma capitate, 3~lobed. 



1. F. oxypetala, Royle III. 388; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, perianth- 



