NEW MONOCOTYLEDONS FROM CHINA AND TIBET 45 
robust pe oe umbel with markedly unequal pedicels, and blunt 
reflexed p 
ab. er rth Central China; Leunteon, aren aL -san, Hugh, 
August, nel and Shensi, Mt. Ngo-san, Hugh, September, 1899. 
Fritillaria flavida, sp. nov. Pla art a glabra peal vel altior, 
bulbo multisqnamoso, squamis crassis, lanceolatis; caul a ili ; 
foliis circa 10, sparsis, anguste linearibus, florem excedentibus, in 
parte caulis superiore magis frequentibus, iengionbuisque, wea a 
tenuioribus et swpe apice flexuosis, ecirrhosis; flore solitario, de- 
clinato, flavido, aperto 5 cm. lato; petalis pene e basi arrest al 
oblon. ngo- -lanceolatis, neatocibup paullo latioribus interdum oblongo- 
bus; ovario oblongo, ae eke alato, quam stylo paullo brevi 
stigmate capitato, trilob 
Bulbs 1-5-2 em. thick, inl (nine to ten or more) about 2 os 
long, spreading ord: Upper leaves 7-12 cm. long, 4-1°5 m 
broad. Petals pale yellow, or white streaked with yellow, about 
2°5 cm. long, the outer 8-10 mm. broad, the inner 8°5-1 
Stamens 15-16 mm. long, anthers 4-5 mm. Ovary barely 1 wa cm. 
long, 4 slightly longer. 
Near the Himalayan 'F. Stracheyt Hook. fil., se which it 
differs in its yellow flowers a rather narrower pe 
Hab. Tibet; Yuo-s 0, King’s collector, epee 29th, 1882, 
‘* flowers pale yellow’; Chambi, Koo-ma-py-a, Dr. King’s collector, 
July 29th, 1884, ‘flowers light yellow,” no. 611; Chumbi an 
Phari, Pit. -Zee- lu, Dungboo, July, 1879, “flower ye ellow” ; Chumbi 
and Phari, Cho-leh-la, near Seu Dungboo, July 8rd, 1878, 
“flower white streaked with yellow 
TovaRIA YUNNANENSIS Franchet i in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xliii. (1896) 
p. 48. There is no authoritative specimen of this in either of our 
great herbaria, but from the description I am unable to distinguish 
the Tibet and Yunnan plants. 
Hab. Tibet; Chumbi, Do-ree- chu, Dr. King’s collector, June, 
1884, no. 448, « flowers dark gree 
S casTaANEUS Sm. Collected by Hugh in Shensi (Mts. 
ourn. Linn. XXV1. 
164), to J. himalensis Klotzsch as a broad-leaved form of the latter, 
seems identical with Hugh’s plant. JJ. castaneus is not included in 
the Enumeration, but Buchenau has recently referred to this species 
two oo collected by Giraldi in Shensi (Engl. Jahrb, xxxvi. 
Beibl. 82, 19). 
ingi, sp. nov. Herba age perennis, deiils terete, 
membranaceis, amen 
ca staiinnndy 3 caus some extn aad bre 
