  Nineteen carbon stars that show lithium enrichment in their atmospheres have
been discovered among a sample of 674 carbon stars in the Large Magellanic
Cloud. Six of the Li-rich carbon stars are of J-type, i.e. with strong 13C
isotopic features. No super-Li-rich carbon stars were found. The incidence of
lithium enrichment among carbon stars in the LMC is much rarer than in the
Galaxy, and about five times more frequent among J-type than among N-type
carbon stars. The bolometric magnitudes of the Li-rich carbon stars range
between -3.3 and -5.7. Existing models of Li-enrichment via the hot bottom
burning process fail to account for all of the observed properties of the
Li-enriched stars studied here.
