350 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [way 
3-nerved: flowers few, in a loose corymb, on spreading pedicels, 
either bright lemon-yellow, light orange or red, thickly dotted 
with dark purple, and tinged with purple on the outside; seg- 
ments lanceolate, 5—7.5°" long, strongly revolute, thickened at the 
tip: anthers reddish-brown: ovary slender, one third the length 
of the curved style. 
Japan. There are several good garden varieties, but none deserving the 
distinction of a botanical name. 
47. L. TEstaceum Lindl. Bot. Reg. Misc. 1842:51. 
L. Isabellinum Kunze in Mohl & Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 1; 609, 1843. 
L. peregrinum hort. Germ. in Lem. Fl. d. Serr. I. 1: 192. 1845. 
L. excelsum hort. in Seem. in Harting Parad. Vindob. 2. 1845 cir. 
L. altissimum hort. in Duch. Soc. Hort. Par. Jour. II. 4: 215. 1870. 
Bulb perennial, globose: stem 1.5—2™ high: leaves 60-100, 
scattered, linear, ascending, 3—-5-nerved, the lower ones 7.5-10 
long, gradually becoming smaller upward: flowers 2-10, umbel- 
late, nodding, fragrant, creamy-yellow, with sometimes a few 
minute reddish dots, slightly papillose; perianth segments 
67.5 ™ long, strongly revolute: filaments half as long as the 
perianth; pollen red: ovary a little more than half as long 4s 
the curved style. 
Not known in the wild state, and thought to be a hybrid. A fine, statel) 
plant, with delicate, pretty flowers. 
48. L. ocHRACEUM Franchet, Jour. Bot. 6; 319. 1892. 
Bulb small, with few fine lanceolate scales: stem wan 
9-12" high, bare for a long distance at the base: leaves crowde 
at the middle, smooth, 1-nerved, or the lower ones slightly 
3-nerved, narrowed at the base, subpetiolate, ligear arene 
or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, all scattered: flowers pee 
first nodding, spotted with yellow; perianth tubular for wi sa 
its height, segments oblong, incurved subrevolute ; nectar 'Ur ae 
bare, smooth: stamens less than half as long as the periant' 
anthers yellow: style three times as long as the ovary. 
Yun-nan, China. 
49. L. Farcesi Franchet, Jour. Bot. 6:317- 1892. oe 
Bulb ovate, small, with 10-15 fleshy scales: stem slendet 
