NOTES ON CHINESE IJLTES. 



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Yunnan, at two points : Menf^tse* close to the Tonkin frontier, and 

 Bzemao, to the north of the British Shan States and Burmah. Both 

 these regions and indeed all Yunnan are extremely mountainous, and I 

 collected at elevations of from 1,000 feet to 10,000 feet aljove sea-level. 

 In the high mountains near Mengtse Liliam cjigantaum occurs in the 

 forests, as I have already mentioned. Lilium leucanthum is common 

 near Mengtse in glens, in rocky places more or less sheltered. It has 

 larger flowers than the Ichang plant, and the bulbils and greenish tint of 

 the flowers make it look very different from Lilium Broivnii. 



On the bare grassy mountains near Mengtse, at elevations of 5,000 to 

 7,000 feet above the sea, a Lily is very common, occurring in great 

 quantities. This Lily is from 1 to 3 feet in height, and the flowers are 

 pink or purple-pink, with much speckling of a browner tint in the lower 

 half of the perianth interiorly. This is represented at Kew by my 

 number 10,774, and has been identified as Lilium IjoiuH, Baker, which was 

 found in the British Shan States much further south, and was described as 



Fig. 182. — L. nepalense. 



being a white Lily with claret markings. The Mengtse Lily is never 

 white. Its leaves are very variable, but are generally narrow and coria- 

 ceous, and very numerous. This Lily only occurs in exposed situations on 

 the mountains amidst the grass. 



Closely resembling the preceding Lily is my No. 10,774 B, which has 

 also pink flowers. This has been identified at Kew as Lilium Pseudo- 

 tigrimtm, Carr. It was collected by me on grassy mountains, south of 

 Mengtse, at 6,000 feet elevation. 



My No. 10,743 is a much smaller Lily, with pinkish-purple flowers, 

 occurring in similar situations in the mountains near Mengtse. It has 

 been identified at Kew as Lilium Tjunnanense, Franchet. Whether these 

 last three Lilies are mere varieties of one species is worth considering. 



Near Szemao I found a Lily at about G,000 feet elevation, my No. 

 13,026, with white flowers and reddish markings. It has been identified 

 as Lilium Bakerianum, Collett & Hemsley. It differs from the last Lily 

 not only in the colour of the flowers, but in the leaves, which are much 

 fewer on the stem, larger, wider, and not coriaceous. This Lily occurs in 

 grassy exposed mountain spots. 



