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LlLIUM Thunbergianum. 

 Thunherg*s Orange Lily. 



HEXANDRIA MOl^OGY^^lA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace^. 



LILIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 2. fol. 132. 



L. Thunbergianum ; caule supern^ vlUoso, foliis ovato-lanceolatis inferioribus 

 alternis superioribus verticillatis, floribus terminalibus erectis, perianthii la- 

 ciniis sessilibus patentibus apice revolutis intus glabris staminibus multo 

 longioribus. 



L. Thunbergianum. Romer Sf Schulles syst. veq. vi. 415. 



L. bulbiferum. Thunb. in act. soc. Linn. Lond. II. 333. 



L. philadelphicum. Td.Ji.jap. 135. 



This noble Lily was drawn in the nursery of Messrs. 

 Rollissons, in June 1838, and is one of those introduced to 

 Europe from Japan, by Dr. Siebold. It was originally 

 found by Thunberg, who first referred it to L. philadelphi- 

 cum, although its sepals and petals are sessile, and subse- 

 quently to L. bulbiferum, although it has no bulbs, and is 

 also destitute of the papillae which render the inside of the 

 flower of that species scabrous. It is doubtless a distinct 

 species. 



In the volume of this work for 1837, fol. 2000, another 

 fine species is figured ; and in the same place will be found 

 a short account of the other Lilies natives of the same country. 

 Since that time I have received Siebold's beautiful Flora 

 Japonica, in which L. speciosum and a variety are figured, 

 with the following remarks, which the rarity of that work in 

 England will justify my producing at second hand. 



" Among more than 20 kinds of Lily brought by me 

 from Japan to Europe, and deposited in the Botanic Garden 

 at Ghent, are the varieties of L. speciosum now represented. 

 To that with flowers rose-coloured, blotched with purple, I 



