4l6 LILIACE^. 



quite white. Filaments two-thirds as long, white, 



glabrous, stiff, thinner just below the anther: anther 1/16 



inch, yellow, attached very near the base. Style thickest 



about the middle, thinner above : stigma terminal, 



punctate, t. 263. 



Common on grass. Nilgiris : at Pykara, flowering May. 

 Fyson 2482. Bourfte 4783. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats from Canara southwards. 



LILIUM. F.B.I. 156 XXI. 



True Lily. 



Bulbous plants, with erect more or less leafy stem. 



Flowers few, at the end of the stem, large, pendulous or 



horizontal, bell-shaped. Anthers attached by their 



backs, versatile. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. 



Species 45, all in north temperate countries. The common 

 White Lily of gardens on the plains of India is a crinum 

 (family amaryllidace/e). 



Lilium neilgherrensc Wight ; F'.B.L vi 350, XXI 3 ; 



the Nilgiri Lily. Stem ij^ to 3 feet. Leaves 2 by J^ 



inch, narrow-lanceolate acute, three-nerved. Flowers 



solitary, 6 by 4 inches, bell-shaped, horizontal. 



Common on the open downs, flowering July to October. 

 Fyson 522, 532. Bourne 62, 2024. 



Peculiar to South India, not northwards in the Bombay Presidency, 

 The bulbs should not be moved while the plant is in flower, nor until 

 the leaves have died down, and if it is desired to plant them elsewhere a 

 stake should be put to make the place, and the bulb dug up later. Lily 

 bulbs are delicate movers and this species will not grow in the plains. 



DISPORUM. F.B.I. 156 XXXII. 



Herbs with creeping rhizome and erect branched 

 leafy stems, clothed below only with sheathing scales. 

 Leaves sessile or shortly stalked not stem-clasping, net- 

 veined between the many nerves. Flowers solitary or 

 in pairs, narrow bell-shaped, pendulous, soon falling^ 

 Sepals and petals not connected, sometimes saccate at 

 the base. Anthers opening outwards. Fruit a berry. 



