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India : one a pretty plant with rose-coloured flowers, treated by him as 

 a Fritillary, under the name of " Thomson's Fritillary," has since been 

 named by Dr. Lindley (in 1845) as Thomson's Lily, L. Thomsonianum ;* 

 the other, distinguished by its linear-lanceolate leaves, is L. Polypliyllum, 

 Royle, which bears two or three white flowers of medium size. 



To Klotysch we are indebted for descriptions of two Indian species of 

 Lily, discovered in the Himalayas by D. Hofmeister, during the visit of 

 Prince Waldemar of Prussia to that part of India. These are the Triple- 

 headed Lily, L. Triceps, Klo.,f a name indicating the separation of the 

 stalk into three short thick branches, with a single white pendulous 

 flower ; and the dwarf Lily, L. Nanum, Klo., a low plant, also with white 

 pendulous flowers of small size. 



More recent additions to the Indian species of Lily are not wanting in 

 the Neilgherry Lily, L. Neilgherricum, Ch. Lem., which would seem to have 

 been discovered by the collector Thomas Lobb, but described and figured by 

 M. Chas. Lemaire, in 1863, in L' Illustration Horticole. 



u To this list I would add L. Punctatum Jacquem, some dried speci- 

 mens of which are in the Jwrtus siccus of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 

 probably having been procured by Jacquement from the Himalayas. 

 They are accompanied by a note stating that the flowers of this un- 

 described species are of a livid yellow, dotted with vinous purple, and 

 possess an agreeable odour. 



"The western and central parts of Asia have been explored by Russian 

 botanists, who have brought from thence several fine species. The first- 

 named region has supplied three species with punctuated yellow blooms 

 in the form of those of the white L. Monadelphicum, Marsh and Bieb., 

 the specific name of which indicates its distinctive character, and to which 

 M. Koch adds, as a simple advanced form of the species, L. Loddigesianum^ 

 Roem. and Sch., which reappears with a recurvated perianth in Szovit's 

 Lily, L. Szovitzianum, Fisch., known in our gardens under the name 

 of Colchicum, with a perianth greenish at first, and afterwards of an 

 ochreous colour, small and strongly reflexed, as in L. Ponticum, Koch. 

 The central and more northerly parts of Asia supply a charming group 

 of species with small blooms of a lively poppy red the Slender-leaved 

 Lily, L. Tenuifolium, Fisch., a species found all over Southern Siberia ; 

 the Graceful Lily, L. Pulchellum, Fisch., with a short stalk and single red 

 punctuated flower ; the " Lis Mignon," L. Pumilum,\\ Roed., of Daouria, 

 closely resembling the slender-leaved species, but with larger and more 

 rigid leaves, without the nectariferous dust ; lastly, Busch's Lily, L. 

 Lodd., upright punctuated flowers. To this list must be 



* Since then another similar form Z. Hooker i, has been introduced. 



t L. Triceps is now referred by Mr. Baker to L. Oxypctalum, and L. Nanum is 

 Considered by him to be Fritillaria Gardneriana. 



j This Lily is evidently closely allied to Polyphyllwn, and is referred by Mr. Baker 

 accordingly. See Synopsis. 



There seems confusion here. Szovitzianum or ColcMcum is the very beautiful and 

 .ijiaceful canary coloured richly punctuated Lily, Monadelphum is the unspotted form of 

 .the same Lily. 



|| Referred now to Tenuifolium. 



11 Buschianum must now be considered a form only of Pulcliellum. 



