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acute, with revolute edge, the upper in sterile stems bearing Ijulbilhe in 

 their axils. Flowers usually two, erect, shortly peduncled. Perianth 

 narrowly funnel-shaped, white, tinged with green outside, half a foot 

 long ; segments oblanceolate, but little spreading, an inch broad ; nectary 

 very broad, glabrous. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; filaments 

 glabrous ; anthers oblong ; pollen yellow. Style reaching to the tip of 

 the perianth. 



Western China : province of Yunnan ; stony ground at Mo-so-yu ; 

 collected by Delavay in 1888. Nearly allied to L. longifloriiin. ])ifiers 

 by its narrow perianth-segments, long stamens and style, and narrow, 

 very numerous leaves. 



Section Isolirion. 



L. elegans,Tb.nYib.,\a,Y. Batemannice, Hort. Stem 2 ft. long. Flowers 

 8-5, large, open, clear apricot-red, without any spots or markings. 

 Japan. (Fig. 211.) 



Section Archelirion. 



L. Hcnry'i, Baker in Gard, Chron. 1888, iv. 660 ; 1890, viii. 380, with 

 fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 7177 ; Journ. Hort. Soc, n.s., xxvii. 191 (fig.). Bulb 

 large, globose ; outer scales oblong, 2-3 in. long. Stem below the inflo- 

 rescence 5-6 ft. long, stiffly erect. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, the lower 

 6-8 in. long, above an inch broad, bright green, glabrous, without any 

 bulbillae in their axils ; upper growing gradually smaller. Inflorescence 

 finally reaching 1^ ft. long and a foot broad ; peduncles spreading, with 

 an ovate reduced leaf at the base, the lower sometimes branched. 

 Perianth yellowish-red, 3 in. long ; segments lanceolate, obtuse, reflexing 

 from low down, with copious minute red-brown spots, and towards the 

 base a green keel, with a few large club-shaped yellow papillfp. Stamens 

 equally arcuate, nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers linear, ;j in. long ; 

 pollen bright orange. Style as long as the stamens. Capsule oblong, 

 H in. long. 



Discovered in the Ichang gorge of the Yang-tze-kiang river, in the 

 centre of China, by Dr. Henry in 1888. A most distinct and beautiful 

 species, now w^idely spread in English gardens. 



L. spcciosum var. gloriosoides, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1880, ii. 198. 

 Difters from the varieties already known by its narrower leaves, much 

 reflexed crisped perianth segments, and scarlet rather than crimson spots 

 and papill?e, which are mainly confined to the third quarter of the segment, 

 beginning to count from the top downwards. 



Central China ; province of Kiu-kiang, in mountains near the 

 " Heavenly Pool." Collected by Mr. Maries for Messrs. Veitch in 1879. 



L. auratum var. tricolor, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1880, xiv. 198. 

 Differs from the type by its more robust habit, broader suberect leaves, 

 the upper 6-8 in. long, 2 in. broad, with 11-13 pellucid veins and larger 

 flowers, without any brown dots, but with copious spots and papilbv the 

 same colour as the lamina. 



L. auratum var. platyphylluvi, Baker, loc. cit. Differs from the 

 type by its dwarf habit, broader leaves (the upper 2 in. broad), and very 



