LILIUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



LILIUM 



Japanese L. Hansoni. Flowers dark 

 brownish-purple, on stems 5 ft. high. 

 (G'<inh')i, 1893, ii. 927.) 



L. dauricum or davuricum (L. 

 jiennsi/lvanicum). — This is often con- 

 fused with L. vmhellatum. It has 

 orange-scarlet flowers flushed with 

 red and spotted with black. Siberia. 

 (/Jot Jfarj. tt. 872, 1210; Elwes, 



L. Delavayi. — A native of Yunnan, 

 Western China, distinguished by its 

 long slender rhizomes, slender downy- 

 stems 1 to 2 ft. high, rather narrow 

 leaves 1 3 to 3 ins. long, and wine-red 

 openly funnel-shaped flowers heavily 

 dotted with brown inside. 



L. Duchartrei. — A native of Eastern 

 Tibet and the mountains of W. 

 China. It has small bulbs borne at 

 the end of a long slender root- 

 stock. The very slender stems are 

 2 to 3 ft. high, sparsely furnished 

 with thin lance-shaped leaves 2 to 2i 

 ins. long. The flowers, 1^ to 2 ins. 

 long, are white, spotted inside with 

 reddish-brown, especially near the 

 edges of the segments. (Jiot. Mag. t. 

 8072.) 



L. elegans {L. anranfiacum ; L. 

 Thinihergianum). — Stems 1 to 2 ft. 

 high, with scarlet-orange cup-shaped 

 flowers 4 to 6 ins. across, slightly 

 spotted with purple near the base. 

 {Bot. Reij. 1839, t. 38.) 



There are many fine varieties of 

 L. elegans, all excellent for planting 

 amongst low-growing shrubs or for 

 pot-culture. Amongst the best are 

 — Alice Wilson, clear lemon-yellow ; 

 alutaceum, bright apricot, spotted 

 black ; atrosanguiiieiim, deep red, 

 spotted black ; aurantiacmn, orange- 

 yellow ; Batemannioi, clear apricot- 

 red, unspotted ; Horsmanni, rich 

 crimson ; Wallacei, rosy - apricot, 

 heavily spotted ; and many others, 

 including /fo>r jileno, a double-flowered 

 form with deep red blossoms. 



L. Pargesl. — This species was 

 collected with many others in W. 

 China by Father Farges, after whom 

 it is named. It has small ovoid bulbs, 

 slender stems about 1 ft. high, having 

 linear leaves 6 to 7 ins. long, and 

 yellow purjile-spotted flowers with 

 much-reflexed segments. 



L. formosum. — A native of the 

 mountains of Western China. It 

 grows about 3 ft. high, and has lance- 

 shaped leaves about 6 ins. long. The 

 Avhite flowers are broadly funnel- 

 shaped, 6 to 7 ins. long, and the seg- 

 ments spreading only towards the 

 tips. 



L. giganteum. — A magnificent Lily 

 from the high mountain forests of 

 Hupeh and Yunnan, China. It has 



Fig. 233.— miuHi giganteum, aeed-pod. 



large bulbs, and stems from 6 to 14 ft. 

 high, with heart-shaped ovate leaves, 

 gradually becoming smaller as they 

 ascend the stems. Flowers 5 to 6 

 ins. long, tubular, white, washed with 

 violet-purple in the throat, and 

 sweetly scented. {Bot. Mag. t. 4673 ; 

 Ehves, Lit. t. 21.) The variety ynn- 

 tianense is very hardy, and has larger 



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