Tas. 4725. 
~ LILIUM roseum. 
Rose-coloured Lily. 
Nat. Ord. Lintacka.—Hexanpria Monocynia. © 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 4561.) 
Li1uM (§ Notholirion, Wall.) roseum ; foliis alternis flaccidis lineari-acuminatis ca- 
rinatis superioribus remotis multoties brevioribus, floribus racemosis cernuis 
subinfundibuliformibus, sepalis uniformibus spathulatis apicibus reflexis ad 
basin usque distinctis basin versus maculatis, staminibus declinatis sepalorum 
longitudine, stigmate trilobo, “ capsulis turbinatis obtuse hexagonis.” 
Litium roseum: Wall. Cat. n. 5077, et var. B. 
Fririttarta Thomsoniana. Royle, Illustr. p. 388. t. 92. Kunth, Enum. v. 4. 
p. 672. : 
Litium Thomsonianum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, ¢. 1. Walpers, Annal. Bot. 
v. 1. p. 852. 
We quite agree with Dr. Lindley that this is a Lilium, as it 
has been named by its discoverer, rather than a Fritillaria, as 
Dr. Royle and the late Professor Kunth have considered it, and 
assuredly it has no real nectary on asdjnear depression to the sepals. 
The habit however is peculiar, and the leaves in form rather re- 
semble some Hemerocallis than a Lily or Fritillary. Dr. Wallich 
indeed has, in his MS. with which he has favoured us, named it 
Notholirion roseum, observing, “ Lilio affine, sed differt stigmate 
bilobo.” Lilium roseum is a native of Gossain Than and Kamaon 
(Wallich), and of Mussooree (Royle), and Almora (elev. 8000 
feet), where it was found by Messrs. Thomson and Strachey. 
Seeds were sent by the latter gentleman to Kew Gardens, and 
the plants flowered in a cool frame in April, 1853. A slight 
variety or form of this (the Gossain ‘Than plant of Dr. Wallich) 
is given as a new species by Dr. Royle, different from L. roseum 
(Frit. Thomsoniana, Royle); but Dr. Wallich’s notes on both | 
plants, made on the spot, prove that they are one and the same. 
JULY Ist, 1853. 
