348 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
41. L. LANKONGENSE Franchet, Jour. Bot. 6: 317. 1892. 
Stem 3—6"" high, leafy almost to the ground: leaves narrow 
lanceolate, 5-nerved, scarcely scabrous along the nerves and 
margins, crowded, the lower ones wide at the base, half clasping, 
obtuse, those at the middle and upper parts a little longer, acute, 
and those at the upper part beneath the inflorescence 3-5- 
whorled: flowers one or more often two or three, on long 
peduncles nodding when they first come out; perianth white or 
purple, spotted with black, with the segments oblong, somewhat 
incurved above the base, open, nectar furrow papillose: stamens 
divergent, with yellow anthers: style two to three times longer 
than the ovary. 
Yun-nan, China. 
42. L. avenaceum Fischer in Regel, Gartenfl. 1865 : 290- 
L. Martagon Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 4: 149, ex parte, 1814. 
Bulb globose, small, perennial, with very many lanceolate 
scales: stem 3-6 high: leaves few, scattered or somewhat 
whorled, oblanceolate, 7-10 long: flowers few, nodding, aia 
anth small, 2.5—3.5°" long, revolute, bright reddish-yellow, with 
a few fine dots, segments lanceolate: ovary half as long as the 
curved style. 
Kamchatka, Manchuria, Kurile islands, Japan. 
43. L. MonapELpuum Bieb. Fl. Taur, 1: 267. 1808. 
L. Loddigesianum Schultes f. Syst. Veg. 7: 416. 1829- 
L. Szovitsianum Fisch. & Lall. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop- 6:58. 1830 
L. colchicum hort. in Planch. Fl. d. Serr. I. 5:507- 1849: m 
Bulb perennial, ovoid, with several lanceolate scales: ase 
6-15™ high: leaves 30-50, scattered, linear lapeeia 
oblanceolate, distinctly many-nerved: flowers 2-12; ve a 
20-30, in a raceme, nodding, bracteate, fragrant, yalow; ; le; 
few small spots and tinged at the base and tip ees 
perianth segments 6-8 long, oblanceolate, recurved par as 
middle, smooth at the base inside: pollen red: ovary 94 
long as the style; capsule obovoid, umbilicate. 
Persia. 
