L ILIUM JAPONICUM. 



Nat. OiemiB— LI LI AC K. Lindlky. 



This Lily has been generally described and figured as one*flontore& In 

 the Horticultural Transactions col 4. p- 553; it is stated that our know- 

 ledge of l-iliuni Japonicum as a native of Japan, was derived Hrsl from 

 K buffer (Amcenilate* eoofttttf, /«w S7ty ft,1, l ftfterwards from Thuwbjrbc 

 'Flora JaponicGi page 133J; from the accounts of both these writers it 

 appears l<> produce only one flower on a stem in its native country, but under 

 the cultivation of Mr. Baoorbs it had produced three dowers on one stem. 

 The specimen from which this drawing waa made grew in ihe Liverpool 

 Botanic Garden, in u plot of liu'ht black loam, shaded by hiirh hed«o>— there 

 they have flourished lor a series of years with such strength and luxuriance 

 of growth, thai many stems riae to four *>r five feet in height, producing five 

 or six (lowers on each— U Japoaicum is a larger, and may perhaps be 

 designated a coarser plant than Candidum <>r Longiflorum to both of which 

 it is nearly allied. The purple marking on the buck, together with the 

 tinge of Limeric tan colour diffused through the petals especially on their 

 Hrst expansion! give u charming richness of appearance^ which is enhanced 

 by the deep shade of the tinn hollow bellfl, and massive looking pistyfe 

 and stamens- 



