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Don, as Fritillaria Macrophylla, and Mr. Baker, in his revision of the 

 Tulipese (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. 

 u\Iessrs. Loddiges, imported and flowered it about the year 1844, and it 

 was figured in the " Botanical Register J ' under the name of L. Thomp- 

 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 

 scarious coats 2 inches thick, or more in length, striped on the outside, 

 and bearing bulblets in their axils, stem, ]J 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 4J lines 

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

 bearing (5 to 30 flowers, flowers when expanded, 3 to 4 inches across, 

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

 and the North West Himalayas." W. B. llevisley, Gardm^ol. 12, p. 136. 

 Fritillaria Hookeri. Baker, n. sp. Closely allied to the last, 

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

 and 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, cernuous. Bracts, 

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

 in the upper, about an inch long, so far as can be judged from dried 

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

 divisions, oblanceolate, bluntish, to inch broad, narrowed gradually 

 to the base. Ovary, clavate, | J inch long; style, 7 8 lines long; 

 stigmas linear, 1 line long. Capsule, oblong or obovoid, ^ jj- 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 Sikkim Himalayas, at an 

 elevation above the sea-level of 9,000 to 10,000 feet, in 1849. 



It is figured in "Bot. Mag.," tab. 6385, also in ' ' Gard. '"CJtron. , " 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, flowers from 1 to 1 inch long. It 

 ilowered in 1877 with Mr. Max Leichtlin. 



Sarana KamskatcJiense, often called the Blue Lily. F. KamfscJtat- 

 censis, Gawl., Bot. Mag., Sub., t. 1216; Regel, Gartenfl., t. 173. 

 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. 



