Tas. 6126. 
LILIUM macunatoum. 
Native of Japan and N.E. Asia. 
Nat. Ord. Liniacem.—Tribe TuLirez. 
Genus Litium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1871; Journ. Hort. Soc. 
, N.S. vol. iv. p. 39). 
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Litium (Martagon) maculatum ; glaberrimum, bulbo solitario squamis fusi- 
formibus apice articulatis, foliorum verticillis 1-3, foliis in verticillo 
4—2() lineari-lanceolatis ellipticisve obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis, racemo 
1-12 flore, floribus 2-8 poll. diametr. cernuis, perianthio aurantiaco | 
basi late campanulato, foliolis patenti-recurvis oblongis obtusis basim 
versus rima nuda nectarifera instructis medium versus punctls majus- 
culis atro-purpureis notatis, capsula pyriformi vertice depresso abrupte 
in pedicellum brevem attenuata. 
L. maculatum, Thunb. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., vol. iii. t. 5; Baker in Journ. 
Hort. Soc. Lond., N.S. vol. iv. p. 45. a 
L. avenaceum, Fischer—F’. Schmidt Flor. Sachalin ined. ex Maa imovicz in 
Regel Gartenfl., vol. xiv. (1865) 290, t. 485. 
L. Martagon, Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 149, quoad plantam Kamtscha- 
ticam. 
A native of Kamtschatka, the Kurile and Sachalin Islands, 
Japan, and South Eastern Manchuria, whence it was intro- 
duced into the Russian Imperial Botanical Gardens, and we 
have dried specimens from Sitcha on the American coast. 
According to Maximoviez (in Gartenflora), there are two 
‘varieties of it: one, with a scented orange-yellow flower, 
which is that figured here, and which came from Victoria 
Sound; the other, with red inodorous flowers, 1s found in 
Japan and Kamtschatka, is figured by Regel in the Gartenflora. 
The leaves of both varieties vary extremely, both as to the 
number of whorls, the number in each whorl, and in length 
- and breadth. ; 
I am indebted to G. F. Wilson, F.H.S., of Weybridge 
Heath, for the specimen figured, the bulb of which he pur- 
chased at a sale of Japan Lilies, in London, and which 
flowered in June of the present year. I have also seen a 
specimen flowered by Mr. William Saunders, F.H.S., in 1871. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1874. 
