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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEW SPECIES AND PRINCIPAL 

 VARIETIES OF LILY DISCOVERED SINCE THE PUBLI- 

 CATION OF THE MONOGRAPH OF ELWES (1880). 



By J. G. Baker, F.R.S., V.M.H. 



Section Cardiocrinum. 



L. mirabile, Franchet in Journ. de Bot.Yi. (1892) 810. Stem slender, 

 about 4 ft. long. Leaves alternate, thinly papyraceous, cordate-ovate, 

 acute. Inflorescence centrifugal, composed of 7-15 flowers, spreading hori- 

 zontally, all shortly peduncled. Perianth funnel-shaped, 5-7 in. long ; 

 segments oblanceolate, above an inch broad, narrowed gradually from 

 above the middle of the base, white outside, tinged with violet towards 

 the margin. Stamens half as long as the perianth ; anthers short, golden 

 yellow. Pistil more than half as long as the perianth ; ovary an inch long. 

 Capsule subglobose, under IJ in. long and broad. Seeds like those of 

 L. cordifoUum in shape, but not above half the size. 



Western China ; province Szechuen, district of Ichen-keou-tin ; 



Fig. 175. — L. cordifolium. 



collected by Father Farges. Differs from L. cordifolium by its centrifugal 

 inflorescence (a character previously unknown in the genus), globose 

 capsule, and small seeds. 



L. Glehni, F. Schmidt, Beise Amur, und Insel SacJiaL, 187. Said 

 to differ from L. cordifolium by its more numerous smaller flowers (4 in. 

 long) and valves of the capsule 1-nerved on the back. 



Island of Sachalin, north of Japan. Collected by Glehn and Albrecht 

 in 1861. Probably should be regarded as a northern variety of L. 

 cordifolium (fig. 175). 



Section Eulirion. 



L. sulpliureum, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 7257 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 vi. 851 ; L. Wallichianum var. supcrbiim, Hort. Low (flg. 170) ; Baker in 

 Gard. Chron. 1891, ii. 480; L. ochroleiicnm, Gardoi, 1801, ii. 388, non 



