found growing wild on hillsides in the midland provinces of 
Japan (no particular island stated); the flowering season, July 
and August, during which months it may be commonly seen 
in situations exposed to the sun. ‘There is no doubt that it will 
prove perfectly hardy in this country.” 
Being myself absent when the specimens were sent to be 
figured, I had no opportunity of making notes from the recent 
plant ; and gladly transcribe Dr. Lindley’s observations, as I 
have above given his specific character :— 
“Tf ever a flower merited the name of glorious, it is this, 
which stands far above all other Lilies, whether we regard its 
size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of colour. Ima- 
gine, upon the end of a purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, 
and not above two feet high, a saucer-shaped flower at least ten 
inches in diameter, composed of six spreading, somewhat crisp 
parts, rolled back at their points, and having an ivory-white skin 
thinly strewn with purple points or studs, and oval or roundish, 
prominent, purple stains. ‘lo this add in the middle of each of 
the six parts a broad stripe of light satiny yellow, losing itself 
gradually in the ivory skin. Place the flower in a situation 
where side-light is cut off, and no direct light can reach it ex- 
cept from above, when the stripes acquire the appearance of 
gentle streamlets of Australian gold, and the reader who has 
not seen it may form some feeble notion of what it is. Fortu- 
nately ten thousand eyes beheld it at South Kensington on the 
2nd instant (July), and they can fill up the details of the picture. 
From this delicious flower there arises the perfume of orange 
blossoms sufficient to fill a large room, but so delicate as to re- 
spect the weakest nerves. It is botanically allied to Lilium lan- 
cifolium on the one hand, and to the orange-red Z. Thunber- 
geanum on the other, but it is wholly different from either.” — 
Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1. . 
In a subsequent number of the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ it is 
staied that Mr. Standish had some two-flowered plants coming 
on, supposed to be the same species; and Mr. Fortune remarks 
that he has usually seen this plant four feet high in Japan, and 
often with three or five of these large flowers on the same stem, 
and he adds, “I rather suspect it is the great-grandmother of 
L. speciosum.” Vf by this expression is meant a hybrid off- 
spring of that species, he is probably correct, for the purple spots 
and papillz show an evident affinity with that. 
The ‘Gardeners’ Monthly Advertiser,’ published at Philadel- 
phia, announces in its August number that the Lily had been 
received in Massachusetts by Mr, Parkman, of Jamaica Place, 
the preceding year, from Japan, and produced its gorgeous 
blossoms, equal in size with those that have appeared in England. 
ie ge aieien. ee, 
