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OLEANIKGS AND OKIGI3AL MEMORANDA. 
168. Echeandia ternifloka. Ortega; {alias Conau- 
thera Echeandia Persoon ; alias Anthericum reflexum Cava- 
nilles; alias Phalangium reflexum Poiret). A half -hardy 
Mexican Lilywort, with fugitive yellow flowers. Blossoms 
in August. (Fig. 81.) 
It seems worth while to reproduce this plant, which, although long 
known in gardens, is rare, and has never been figured in English 
works. It was sent us on the 6th of August by Edward Leeds, Esq., 
of St. Ann's, Manchester, with the following note : — 
** I send you specimen of a plant raised from Mexican seeds : it was 
marked ' Asphodelus sp.,' but is more like an Anthericum. The roots 
are thick and fleshy, and I think it will make a fine border plant, treated 
the same as Commelyna coelestis ; keeping the roots in dry sand, and 
out of frost in winter. The flowers last only one day, but come out 
in succession for a long time ; and when the plants become strong, 
it will be as ornamental as some species of Ixia ; hitherto I have kept 
it in a pot. The seeds were round and black ; and were given to me 
by the lady of Dr. Robinson, of this place." 
The filaments are club-shaped bodies covered near the upper end 
with rings of blunt projections hooked back, which may be regarded 
as an incomplete state of the hairs on such plants as Bulbine, no 
doubt nearly related to Echeandia. Examined with the microscope, 
these projections are found to be caused by the free ends of long 
loose club-shaped cells hooked back and placed in a whorled manner 
around a central cord of spiral vessels. They are filled with a yellow 
grumous fluid. 
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169. Lilium Wallichiantjm. Schnltes. A very fine 
hardy bulbous plant, with white flowers, from the N. of 
India. Introduced by Major Madden. Blossoms in August. 
(Fig. 82.) 
Asia has furnished us with four distinct kinds of tube-flowered 
white lilies ; namely candidum, the common white, japonicum, Imgir 
florum with its dwarf 1 -flowered variety, and WalUchianum. The 
first has a short tube and flowers in racemes. The others have 
them varying in number from 1 to 3, with a very long tube. Of 
these Japonicum has broad leaves, and leathery flowers stained outside 
with olive brown ; the two others have the flowers perfectly white, 
with a much thinner texture. Between themselves L. longiprum and 
WalUchianum differ in the latter having very long narrow leaves, of 
which the uppermost are extended into a linear point, and flowers 
as much as 8 inches long ; while longifiorum has leaves twice as broad, 
and flowers generally much smaller. These are, we believe, the only 
real distinctions between the two, and seem hardly sufficient to justify 
the creation of two species ; the distinctions are however permanent, 
and affect considerably the general appearance of the plants. 
According to Schultes, L. WalUchianum must have been long in 
cultivation, for he refers to it two figures in the Botanical Register 
and Botanical Cabinet, both of which well represent the dwarf 1 -flowered 
form of L. longiflorum, sometimes called eximium in Gardens, and bear 
no resemblance to the Indian Lily. 
The accompanying figure of L. WalUchianum is certainly the first 
that has been given from a European specimen. We received i 
last August from Mr. D. Moore, the skilful curator of the Botanic 
