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larger, more spreading, and less compactly reflexed perianth segments. As usually 

 met witli tlie plant is from 2 ft. to 3 ft higli, but it sometimes reaches double or 

 treble this lieiglit, or even more, with proportionate vigour. The stems are erect, 

 smooth, and of a purplish-green colour. The leaves are numerous, scattered, 

 linear-lanceolate, shortly-stalked, from sis to nine inches long, glossy on the 

 upper surface, and marked beneath with 5 (rarely 7) distinct translucent ribs or 

 veins. The flowers form an open raceme terminating the stems, from three to 

 six or eight-flowered in plants of moderate vigour, from twenty to thirty-flowered 

 in stronger plants, and occasionally bearing on a single stem upwards of a hundred 

 flowers,* the flower-stalks being erecto-patent, and three to four inches long. 

 The flowers when expanded are ten to twelve inches across, the segments spreading, 

 recurved towards the tips, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, and five to seven inches long ; 

 they are ivory-white, studded with numerous deep purple oblong spots, marked 



LiLiUM AUEATDM— tho (Ictached flower one-siith natural size. 



with a broad central yellow band, and copiously papillose towards the base. The 

 anthers are large and conspicuous with bright red pollen. 



This grand Lily is a native of Japan, and was introduced to this country by the 

 Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, who exhibited it for the first time in flower 

 in July, 1862. Mr. Kramer states that it is found in the Japanese woods ; and Mr. 

 Oldham, who calls it the Udi of the Japanese, records it as chiefly occurring in 

 hght rich soil, among the shrubs and between the rocks near Yokohama. Of 

 late years it has been annually imported to this country by tens of thousands, the 

 plants varying to the extent which might be expected amongst natural seedhngs. 

 One or two distinct varieties have been retained. The accompanying woodcut 

 represents a small plant on a very small scale, and a detached flower about 

 one-sixth the natural size. 



L. AUEATUM EUBRO-viTTATUM {Rcv. Hort. 1867, 371). — This variety, obtained 



* Messrs. Standiah and Co., of Ascot, grew iu 18fi9 a fasciated stem 13 ft. high, bearing over 100 blosBoms. 

 Another 9 ft. high, also fasciated, and bearing 103 flowers, was grown by Mr. Joues, of Didsbury. 



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