Lilium duchartrei Franch.

Bulb ovoid, 1.5--4 cm in diam.; scales white, ovate to lanceolate, 1--2 × 0.5--1.8 cm. Stem 0.5--1.5 m, sometimes slightly papillose. Leaves scattered, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4.5--5 × ca. 1 cm, papillose abaxially and at margin, 3--5-veined, axil with a cluster of white hairs. Flowers solitary or several in an umbel, nodding, fragrant. Tepals white, with red-purple spots, 4.5--6 × 1.2--1.4 cm, margin revolute; nectaries papillose on both surfaces. Filaments ca. 3.5 cm; anthers yellow, narrowly oblong, ca. 1 cm. Ovary ca. 1.2 × 1.5--4 cm. Style 3--4 cm. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5--3 × ca. 2.2 cm. Seeds with a 1--2 mm wide wing. Fl. Jul--Aug, fr. Sep. 2 n = 24*.

Gansu, Hubei, ?S Shaanxi (Qin Ling), Sichuan.

* Forest margins along valleys, grassy slopes, hillsides; 1500--3800 m.

Lilium farreri Turrill; L. forrestii W. W. Smith.

Flowering from July to August; fruiting in September.

Lilium duchartrei is close relative of Lilium lankongense, but differs from the latter in its leaf axils with a cluster of white hairs (vs. without hairs), leaf veins not elevated abaxially (vs. elevated abaxially), tepals white, with purple-red spots (vs. pink, with deep red spots).

Lilium duchartrei is occurring in Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan of China.

Bulb ovoid, 1.5-4 cm in diameter; scales white, ovate to lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm wide. Stem 0.5-1.5 m, sometimes slightly papillose. Leaves scattered, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-5 long, ca. 1 cm wide, papillose abaxially and at margin, 3-5-veined, axil with a cluster of white hairs. Flowers solitary or several in an umbel, nodding, fragrant. Tepals white, with red-purple spots, 4.5-6 cm long, 1.2-1.4 cm wide, margin revolute; nectaries papillose on both surfaces. Filaments ca. 3.5 cm; anthers yellow, narrowly oblong, ca. 1 cm. Ovary ca. 1.2 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide. Style 3-4 cm. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5-3 cm long, ca. 2.2 cm wide. Seeds with a 1-2 mm wide wing.

The chromosomal number of Lilium duchartrei is 2n = 24 (Huang and Li, 1996).

Growing in forest margins along valleys, grassy slopes, hillsides; 1500-3800 m.