354 OLVI. LILIAOE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Fritillaria. 



opposite upper longer whorled, flowers umbelled yellow or brick-red not 

 tessellate, nectary large rounded. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 274 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 189; Bot. Mag. t. 194 and 1215 ; Redoute Lil. t. 131. 

 F. Corona-imperialis, Gsertn. Fruct. i. 64, t. 17, f. 1. Petilium imperiale, 

 J. St. Hil. Fam. Nat. i. 120 ; Kunth Enum. iv. 246. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson, CUrJce. DISTEIB. 

 Westward to Kurdistan. 



JBulb large, globose, of broad obtuse gibbous fleshy yellowish scales, strong- 

 smelling. Stem 3-4 ft.; robust, naked below. Leaves crowded, 6-10 by 1-2 in., 

 lower obtuse, upper acute, often 10 in a whorl. Flowers 5-8 ; bracts leafy, whorled, 

 erect, linear. Perianth 2-2% in. long ; segments f-l-j in. broad. Filaments flat- 

 tened below. Capsule 2 in. long, obovoid, almost 6-winged, umbonate. Crown 

 Imperial. 



23. X.X.OYDXA, Salisb. 



Small slender bulbous herbs. Leaves filiform. Flowers few or solitary, 

 small, white or yellow. Perianth funnel-shaped, suberect ; segments 6, 

 persistent, straight, 3-5-nerved, with an obscure basal fold or nectary. 

 Stamens 6, subhypogynous, filaments erect, filiform; anthers basifixed. 

 Ovary triquetrous; style columnar, sigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed; 

 cells many-ovuled. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds compressed and angled, 

 testa appressed, brown or white. Species 2 or 3, Northern. 



Zi. serotina, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 102 ; Ic. Fl. Germ. x. t. 440 ; 

 Enum. iv. 244 ; BaJcer in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 300 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 202. L. alpina, Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 328. L. himalensis. 

 Royle III. 388, t. 93, f. 2; Kunth I. c. 672. L. longiscapa, HooJc. Ic. PL. t. 

 834. Anthericum serotinum, Linn. Sp. PL Ed. ii. 444. Gragea ? pulchella, 

 Wall. Cat. 5064. Nectarobothrium striatum, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. ii. 36. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and TIBET; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 12-17,000 ft. 

 DISTBIB. Alps of Europe, Asia and America. 



Eulb elongate, -1 in., base rhizomatous, neck very long, coats membranous. 

 Leaves 2-8 in., wiry, convolute. Stem 4-12 in., with 1-2 small leaves, rarely forked. 

 Flowers snberect, white with violet veins or yellow, purple at the base ; segments 

 i-f in., oblanceolate or spathulate, broad or narrow ; nectary very small, green. 

 Stamens -f shorter than the perianth ; filaments glabrous pubescent or villous ; 

 anthers minute, very variable in shape. Style as long as the ovary. Capsule 

 i~i in., obovoid or obcordate. Seeds triquetrous, foveolate. I am unable to find 

 any character whereby to distinguish the yellow from the white fld. states, and, what 

 is more remarkable, the specimens with hairy filaments (L. longiscapa, Hook., 

 Gagea ? pulchella, Wall.) pass into these with glabrous filaments and grow inter- 

 mixed with them. A very minute tufted state, under an inch long, occurs at 

 13-14,000 ft. elevation in Sikkim with sepals only - in. long. In a drawing which 

 I made of the ordinary Sikkim form, the nectary is represented as a drop of fluid on 

 the naked surface above the base of the sepal. 



24. TULIPA, Linn. 



Bulb coated. Leaves few, linear or oblong. Scape naked above, or 

 1-2-leaved, 1-3-fld. Flowers large, usually erect. Perianth campanulate ; 

 segments 6, quite free ; nectary 0. Stamens 6, hypogynous ; anthers 

 basifixed, erect. Ovary oblong ; stigmas 3, subsessile, recurved ; cells 3, 

 many-ovuled. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds flattened, testa membranous, 

 pale, appressed. Species about 60, temp. Europe, N". Africa and N". 

 Asia. 



