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LILIUM speciósum. 
The Crimson Japan Laly. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. LiLiacez. 
LILIUM. Supra, vol. 2. fol. 132. 
L. speciosum ; caule erecto ramoso glabro, foliis sparsis ovato-oblongis nervosis 
dieere ramis unifloris, flore-cernuo reflexo, corollis revolutis intus papil- 
oso-barbatis. Morren Notice sur un Lis du Japon, p. 2. 
L. speciosum. Thunb. in act. linn.2. 332. Willd. sp. pl. 2.86... * Encycl. 
regn. veg. pars. 1. t. 1. Horticulteur Belge, March 1833, t. 1." 
L. superbum. Thunb. fl. jap. 134. 
Kasbiako vulgò Konókko Juri. Kempf. aman. 871. Banks ic. Kempf. t. 47. 
All the Lilies previously seen in Europe, however beauti- 
ful they may be, are quite thrown into the shade by this 
glorious species, for which we-have to thank Dr. von Siebold, 
‘who introduced it to Holland from Japan. Not only is it 
"handsome beyond all we before knew in gardens, on account 
of the clear, deep rose-colour of its flowers, which seem all 
rugged with rubies and garnets, and sparkling with erystal 
points, but it has the sweet fragrance of a Petunia. Vell 
A ‚might Kempfer speak.of it as “ flos magnifice pulehritu- 
| dinis,” for surely if there is any thing not human, which is 
‘Magnificent in beauty, it is this plant. 
- Beyond its own country it has no rival; but in Japan 
there are others that will scarcely yield even to it. Kampfer 
tells us ofthe Oni Juri, or Devil's Lily, with a showy flower, a 
span in breadth, the flowers all stained and mottled with 
crimson and purple, and minium ; of the Fime Juri, a dwarf 
species, daggled with marks of blood, its purple flowers 
moreover spotted with crimson; and of the FiJuri, or Fiery 
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