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shading in parts. The bases of the flowers are, however, not 

 red, and the green colour is not found on the points of the outer 

 segments. Baker takes for his type of this, the plant figured in 

 the Botanical Magazine, table 1704, and I think it is impossible 

 to separate from it the plant figured at table 5992. 



G. L. tricolor aurea. — A cantankerous little plant, differing from 

 L. tricolor in habit and in constitution. The leaves are short and 

 firm, G inches long, 1 inch broad, spotted with dull red : in the 

 older leaves the red becomes a continuous patch at the points. 

 Scape short and stout, G to 7 inches long, a few patches of red 

 near the base ; the upper portion is of a uniform reddish colour, 

 and the apex bright orange-red. Flowers few, eight to ten, close 

 together at the top of the scape, far more spreading than in L. 

 tricolor; the ends of the outer segments are marked with green. 

 Plate 1020 of the Botanical Magazine exactly represents this 

 plant, although it is there called L. tricolor, var. lutcola. 



L. Cami, Hort. Leichtlin. — This is said to be a species, and 

 it emanated from the rich collection of bulbs of Herr Max 

 Leichtlin, of Baden-Baden. Leaves stout, more erect than those 

 of L. Nelsoni or L. tricolor, or tricolor aurea, 9 inches long, 

 bright and shining ; on the upper surface mottled with dull 

 brown. Scapes very stout and erect, heavily blotched with brown 

 to half way, and uniform dull brown in the upper portion. Flowers 

 twelve to twenty, shorter than those of L. tricolor, f inch long, 

 orange-yellow, shaded with green on the outside. Bases of 

 young flowers, sterile buds, and top of the scape, bright red. A 

 very attractive, free flowering, and vigorous plant, not coming 

 into flower until March. 



L. reflexa. — Not a very attractive species. Dwarf ; leaves three, 

 the bottom leaf reduced to a large sheathing scale extending 

 about 2 inches, upper two leaves forming a narrow tube, 3 

 inches long, which is red. Best of leaf green, j inch broad, 6 

 inches long. Scape 6 inches long, four to six flowers. Flowers 

 long, yellow, swollen in the middle, closed almost completely at 

 the mouth. Ovary large, three times as long as broad. Flowers 

 erect on very short pedicels. 



L. glaucina, Jacq. — One of the most striking of all Lache- 

 nalias, and as variable as L. tricolor. From a gardening point of 

 view it is by far the most important species in all the groups 

 except Eulachenalia. The base of the flower is very globose. 



