Tab. 5673. 

 LILIUM Leichtlinii. 

 Max LeichtUn's Lily. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^;.— Hexandeia Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5838.) 



Luium Leichtlinii ; caule 2-3-pedali gracili glaberrimo 1-floro, foliis alternis 

 sparsis lineari-lanceolatis 3-4 poll, longis \ poll, latis acufcis sessilibus 

 subenerviis ima basi ad insertionem utrinque pilosulis v. villosulis, 

 nore nutante 4 poll, diametro, perianthii foliolis e basi oblonga lanceo- 

 Jatis obtusis revolutis, exterioribus angustioribus, interioribus basin ver- 

 sus 2-cristatis 2-carinatisve eristis carinisve pubescentibus, omnibus 

 aureis purpureo-maculatis, filamentis stramineis, antheris brunneis. 



Bulbs of this charming Lily were received by Messrs. Veitch 

 and Sons from Japan, along with those of L. auratuni, and com- 

 municated to me for determination in July of the present 

 year. Though resembling in some respects L. tigriniim in 

 the form of the flower, it differs from that plant, not only in 

 colour, but in the graceful habit, scattered leaves, and crested 

 inner segments of the perianth. From the prince of the 

 genus, L. auratum, which in some respects it approaches, it 

 differs both in the colour and form of the perianth-leaves, 

 and in wanting the long processes on these which L. auratum 

 bears. 



I have named this plant after a zealous cultivator of the 

 genus, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for various 

 rare species, M. Max Leichtlin, o£ Carlsruhe, a gentleman 

 who is especially devoting himself to the elucidation, by 

 culture, of the numerous species and races of this noble 

 genus of bulbous plants. 



Desck. Stem tall, slender, two to three feet high, te- 

 rete, glabrous, except where the leaf joins the stem at each 

 side, where a few long hairs appear. Leaves alternate, ses- 

 sile, rather remote, linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading and 

 recurved, three to four inches long by a quarter of an inch 



NOVEMBER 1 ST, 1SG7. 



