354 crtiVi, LiiiiAOEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Frittllaria. 



opposite upper longer whorled, flowers Timbelled yellow or brick-red not 

 tessellate, nectary large rounded. Baker in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xiv. 274 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 189 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 194 and 1215 ; Redoute Lil. t. 131. 

 ¥. Coroua-imperialia, Osertn. Fruct. i. 64, t. 17, f. 1. PetiUum imperiale, 

 J. St. Hil. Fam. Nat. i. 120 ; Xtinfk Fnum. iv. 246. 



Westbrit HlMAiATA; Kashmir, alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson, Clarke.— Dist^tb. 

 Westward to Kurdistan. 



Salb large, globose, of broad obtuse gibbous fleshy yellowish scales, strong- 

 smelling. Stem 3—4 ft., robust, naked below. Leaves crowded, 6-10 by 1-2 in., 

 lower obtuse, upper acute, often 10 in a whorl. Floyoers 5-8 ; bracts leafy, whorled, 

 erect, linear. Perianth 2-2J in. long ; segments J-IJ in. broad. Filaments flat- 

 tened below. Capsule 2 in. long, obovoid, almost 6-winged, umbonate. — Crown 

 Imperial. 



23. I.X.OVDXA, Salish. 



Small slender bulbous herbs. Leaves filiform. Flowers few or solitary, 

 small, white or yellow. Perianth fnnnel-sbaped, suberect ; segments 6, 

 persistent, straight, 3-5-nerved, with an obscure basal fold or nectary. 

 Stamens 6, sabhypogynous, filaments erect, filiform; anthers basifixed. 

 Ovary triquetrous; style columnar, sigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed; 

 cells many-ovaled. Capsule loculicidal. SeeAs compressed and angled, 

 testa appressed, brown or white. — Species 2 or 3, Northern. 



Ill serotina, Reichh. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 102 ; Ic. Fl. Germ. x. t. 440 ; 

 Sunth Bnum. iv. 244 ; Baker in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xiv. 300 ; Boiss. Fl. 



Orient, v. 202. L. alpina, Salisb. in Trans. Hart. Soc. i. 328. L. himalensis. 

 Boyle III. 388, t. 93, f . 2 ; Eunth I. c. QT2. L. longiscapa, 3ook. le. PI. t. 

 834. Anthericnm serotinum, Linn. 8p. PI. FA. ii. 444. Gragea ? pulchella. 



Wall. Cat. 5064. Nectarobothrium striatum, Ledeh. Fl. Alt. ii. 36. 



Alpine Himalaya and Tibet ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 12-17,000 ft. — 

 DiSTKiB. Alps of Europe, Asia and America. 



Sulh elongate, ^-1 in., base rhizomatous, neck very long, coats membranons. 

 ieoues 2-8 in., wiry, convolute. Stem 4-12 in., with 1-2 small leaves, rarely forked. 

 Flowers suberect, white with violet veins or yellow, purple at the base ; segments 

 3-f in., oblanceolate or spathulate, broad or narrow ; nectary very small, green. 

 Sterner! s ^— I shorter than the perianth; filaments glabrous pubescent or villous; 

 anthers minute, very variable in shape. Style as long as the ovary. Capsule 

 i-i in., obovoid or obcordate. Seeds triquetrous, foveolate. — 1 am unable to find 

 any character whereby to distinguish the yellow from the white fld. states, and, what 

 is more remarkable, the specimens with hairy filaments (i. longiscapa, Hook., 

 Gagea ? pulchella. Wall.) pass into these with glabrous filaments and grow inter- 

 jnixed with them. A very minute tufted state, under an inch long, occurs at 

 13-14,000 ft. elevation in Sikkim with sepals only ^-J in. long. In a drawing which 

 I made of the ordinary Sikkim form, the nectary is represented as a drop of fluid on 

 the naked sarface above the base of the sepal. 



24. TTTIiXPA, Unn. 



Bulb coated. Leaves few, linear or oblong. Scape naked above, or 

 1-2-leaved, 1-3-fld. Flowers large, usually erect. Perianth campanulate ; 

 segments 6, quite free ; nectary 0. Stamens 6, hypogynous ; anthers 

 basifixed, erect. Ovary oblong ; stigmas 3, subsessile, recurved ; cells 3, 

 many-ovuled. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds flattened, testa membranouB, 

 pale, appressed. — Species abont 60, temp. Europe, N. Africa and N. 

 Asia. 



