Tas. 6250. 
LILIUM PHILLIPINENSE. 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Nat. Ord. Lin1ackm.—Tribe TULIPE2. 
Genus Linium, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 225). 
Lrt10m (Eulirion) philippinense ; bulbo subgloboso, squamis magnis lanceolatis, 
caule gracili tereti glabro sesquipedali vel bipedali unifloro, foliis 30-40 
sparsis laxe dispositis anguste linearibus acutis uninerviis viridibus glabris 
erecto-patentibus margine revolutis, perianthii albi horizontalis suaveolentis 
segmentis oblanceolatis supra medium in tubum anguste infundibularem diu 
imbricatis, quarto superiori latioribus flore expanso faleatis, interioribus lati- 
oribus, staminibus ex tubo protrusis, antheris parvis oblongis, polline luteo, 
ah ie cylindrico, stylo stamina superante apice stigmatoso profunde trilo- 
ato. 
L. philippinense, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 114, fig. 243 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. 
vol. xiv. p. 228. 
This fine plant comes very near ZL. longiflorum, Thunb, of 
Japan and China, and may prove to be an extreme variety 
of that species. The characters mainly relied upon to 
distinguish it are the very narrow one-nerved leaves and 
extravagantly elongated tube formed by the permanently 
imbricated claws of the perianth segments, in which, 88 In 
its allies, only the distinctly-raised keel of the inner divisions 
is visible. It is a native of the Phillippines and was sent 
by Mr. Wallis to Messrs. Veitch, and first flowered by them 
in August, 1873. Whether it will prove hardy still remains 
to be seen, but the mountains in the Philippines are said 
to reach a height of ten thousand feet. Botanically it 1s 
interesting as showing the extreme development of the 
peculiarities that mark the ‘‘ Hulirion” group. 
Duscr. Bulb subglobose, perennial, with large lanceolate 
scales. Stem one and a half to two feet high, slender, terete, 
glabrous, plain green or slightly mottled with purple. 
Leaves thirty or forty, scattered laxly all down the stem 
from within a short distance of the solitary flower to the 
base, narrow linear, sessile, falcate-ascending, three to four 
inches long, one-eighth to one-sixth inch broad at the 
middle, acute, bright green, glabrous, with only the 
midvein distinct, the edges narrowly decurved, and not 
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