Tab. 8645. 

 FUNKIA lancifolia, var. tardiflora. 



Japan ? 



Liliaceae. Tribe Hemerocalleae. 

 Funkia, Spreng. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 774. 



Funkia lancifolia, Sjpreng., var. tardiflora, Hort. ex Kew Handlist of Herba- 

 ceous Plants, ed. 2, p. 489 (1902) ; a typo foliis rigidioribus, petiolis brevi- 

 oribus racemisque dense multifloris differt. 



Herba. Folia radicalia, late lanceolata, acuta, glabra, obscure viridia, sub- 

 rigida, 12 cm. longa, 3 cm. lata ; nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 4, angulo 

 acuto adscendentes ; petiolus 10 cm. longus, purpureo-maculatus, vagina 

 . 1 • 5 cm. lata, ovato-lanceolata, alba, purpureo-maculata. Bacemus simplex 

 vel ramosus, usque ad 50-florus, floribus congestis ; pedunculus 30-45 cm. 

 altus, purpureus, maculis obscurioribus notatus; bracteolae lanceolatae, 

 acutae, pallide lilacinae, infimae usque ad 2 ■ 5 cm. longae ; pedicelli graciles, 

 1 • 5 cm. longi, apice articulati. Perianthium pallide lilacinum ; tubus 

 infundibuliformis, 2 cm. longus ; lobi oblongo-ovati, 1"2 cm. longi, 5 mm. 

 lati, apice incrassati et minute pubescentes. Filamenta declinata, 

 inaequalia, quam perianthium paullo longiora; antherae dorsifixae, 

 oblongae, 4 mm. longae, connectivo apice obtuse producto. Ovarium 

 oblongum, trisulcatum, 5 mm. longum, 1'5 mm. diametro ; stylus sub- 

 robustus, staminibus longior ; stigma subeapitatum, obscure trilobatum. — 

 F. tardiflora, W. Irving in Garden, 1903, vol. lxiv. p. 297, cum ic— 

 C. H. Weight. 



The Funkia which forms the subject of our plate has 

 the merit of being very hardy and easily grown and 

 propagated. It thrives in any soil of good or moderate 

 quality, and a large stock of plants can quickly be 

 secured by dividing up the clumps and replanting in 

 spring. The especial value which attaches to it lies, 

 however, in its time of flowering, which does not set in 

 till the end of September or early October and goes on, 

 if the weather be at all favourable, well into November, 

 thus providing colour in the garden at a dull season of 

 the year. The origin of this plant is obscure. It cannot 

 be distinguished by any good morphological character 

 from F. lancifolia, a species common in Japan, which 

 extends thence to Corea and to the Kiang-si province of 

 China, originally described by Sprengel in the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society, vol. ii. p. 335, in 1797, though it 

 has leaves which are rather firmer and of a darker green, 



January, 1916. 



