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ly wild on the foothills of the Lushan range in Kiangsi province, but nowhere else. According to Aiton the Tiger Lily was first sent to Kew from Canton, China, in 1804 by William Kerr in the East Indiaman "Henry Addington.”

Groff (3) p. 27 states that Lilium brownei (sic) N. E. Br. is found growing wild in the Lungt'au-shan range of mountains on the borders of Southern Kiangsi and northern Kwangtung. He gives as the local name TAE Pak, Kung' fa1-one hundred husband flower. Presumably it is the var. colchesteri to which he refers.

Tutcher and Ho Kai (5) p. 41, give to Lilium tigrinum Ker-Gawler, the name i Pak, Hop, and add that the bulbs and seeds are used for medicinal purposes as a "Pulmonary sedative-used to relieve cough and congestion.

Apparently both the names i Pak, (hundred) Hop, and f1 Pak (white) Hop, are used locally for both the lilies L. Brownii var. colchesteri and L. tigrinum and in addition there is the name quoted by Groff in reference to L. Brownii namely Ti Pak, Kung' fa1, hundred husband flower. I should be extremely grateful if some of the Chinese readers of this journal could throw some light on this confusing terminology. REFERENCES.

(1). Bentham, G. B. Flora Hongkongensis, 1861.

(2). Dunn, S. T. and Tutcher, W. J. Flora of Kwangtung and Hong

Kong, 1912.

(3). Groff, G. W. Plants of Lung t'au shan and Vicinities, North River Area, Kwangtung Province, China. Lingnan Science Bulletin 2, 1930. (4). Hu, H. H. and Chun, W. Y. Icones Plantarum Sinicarum, Fascicle

II, 1929 (The Commercial Press, Ltd., Shanghai).

(5). Tutcher, W. J. and Ho Kai. Catalogue of an exhibit of medicinal plants found growing in China, Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine second biennial Congress Hong Kong, 1912.

(6). Wilson, E. H. The Lilies of Eastern Asia, 1925. (Dulau and Co.,

Ltd., London).

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