LILIUM Thomsonianum. 
Dr. Thomson’s Lily. | 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACEZ. 
LILIUM. Linn. 
L. Thomsonianum ; folis alternis linearibus acuminatis mollibus, floribus 
racemosis horizontalibus campanulatis, sepalis petalisque obovato-lanceo- 
latis conformibus intüs glaberrimis apice recurvis ad basin usque dis- 
tinctis basi maculatis, staminibus declinatis sepalorum longitudine, 
stigmate trilobo, ** capsulis turbinatis obtusè hexagonis." 
Lilium roseum, 2. Wall. Cat. no. 5077. Jide Roylit. 
Fritillaria Thomsoniana, Royle Illustrations, p.388.¢.92. Kunth enumeratio, 
4, 672. 
For the opportunity of figuring this beautiful plant we are 
indebted to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it opened its sweet- 
scented flowers in a greenhouse in April, 1844. It is a native 
of Mussooree, one of the northern provinces of British India. 
It was first seen by the people employed by Dr. Wallich, 
who regarded it as a Lily. Professor Royle afterwards referred 
it to Fritillaria ; but its floral leaves have not the honey-pore 
which is essential to that genus. In fact it is far too near in 
structure to the common white Lily, to allow of its being dis- 
tinguished generically. Its delicate rose-coloured flowers offer 
however a very marked feature of distinction. 
The specimen from which the figure was taken had been 
grown in a pot, and was by no means in good health. It 
would doubtless become much larger if treated with the care 
that is bestowed on the Japan Lilies. Indeed Dr. Royle re- 
presents the flowers as being fully twice as large. Pig. 1. 
represents the base of one of the floral leaves, to show that 
there is no trace of a honey-pore. 
It is a very handsome half-hardy bulb, requiring the same 
kind of treatment and soil as Tigridias. 
January, 1845. 5 
