A^^D THEIR CULIUKE. Q9 



" Siebold also attempted to introduce into Europe the golden-banded 

 Lily, Auratuiii, Lindlej, which, however, was only really acquired in 1860, 

 (by the side of which we may place its varieties Buhro Vlttatum, Vircjinale, 

 PictuiK, Euhro ijictum), and L. Wittei, Suring, quite recentlyreceived. 



" Not long- since have been described and figured Leichtlin's Lily, 

 LeicJitlinii, a large citron-yellow flower spotted with purple, by 

 Dr. Hooker, and Maximowicz's Lily, Maxim oiciczii, by M. Kegel, a fine 

 orange-scarlet flower, spotted on the lower portion with purplish black. 



" To complete this enumeration of Japanese species, we must men- 

 tion a very imperfectly-known species named by Asa Grey, Medeoloides, 

 from a single specimen in bloom;* another called by Dr. Lindley 

 L. Fortimei after its importer, the specific identity- of which is not very 

 clearly established, (now L. Tlgrintim Fortunei), lastly, Wilson's Lily, 

 L. Wilsoni, Herb., with large orange-red flowers, dotted with dark purple 

 and relieved with bands of gold colour. Perhaps we should add also 

 the nankeen Lily L. Testaceum, Lindley, the identity of which is not very 

 clearly established, but which many writers regard as a hj-brid. 



" The Asiatic continent has supplied numerous additions to the genus. 

 China, which possesses several species common to Japan on the one side, 

 and Corea on the other, has two species peculiar to itself, viz., Concolor, 

 Salisb.,t with umbellate blooms of a uniform orange-red colour, which 

 although introduced into England in 1806, is still very rare ; and the 

 Chinese Lily, L. Sinicmn, Lindley, a small species carrying two or three 

 scarlet flowers of medium size, which was introduced into England in 

 1824. J The noble Brown's Lily, L. Brownii, Br., whose vast blooms of 



* AVe consider that L. Mcdeoloidcs and Avenaceiim are closely allied forms, and Mens. 

 Duchartre in his observations "Sur le Genre Lis," page 53, seems to agree ■\^-ith lis. 



+ Salisbuiy gave the name i. Concolor to a species said to have been imported from 

 China into England by Greville in 1806. It is still very rare in gardens, although it 

 should be grown more extensively on account of its large" flowers, which are about three 

 inches across, and gi-oui^ed in threes or fours in a terminal umbel. At the base of the 

 inflorescence is a verticil of three or four floral leaves, which are erect, not revolute, and 

 coloured of a fine minium-red colour. The plant is about 18 inches in height, its slender 

 rounded stem is glabrous. In a fine cultivated specimen whicli 1 have in my herbarium, 

 the stem bears 10 alternate leaves riniformly distributed throughout its length. These 

 leaves are of an oblong-lanceolate acute form, narrowed at the base, 5 to 7 centimetres 

 long (2 — 2i inches), glabrous, shghtly cihated, paler beneath ; the upper leaves rather 

 wider than the lower ones. The pistil is shorter than the stamens, and the style is of 

 the same length as the ovary. There is a variety with a solitarj* flower, which Link 

 (" Enum."' i. 321) considered as the type of the species. (Bakrr). 



We are inclined to consider Fartheiicion, Concolor, a,id Sinicuvii, as merely climatic 

 varieties of the same form. 



X In 1824 a charming httle Lily was inti'oduced from China to the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society of London. The stem of this plant did not exceed 25 to 30 

 centimetres (8 — 10 inches) in height, and was terminated by two or three flowers of 

 medium size of a fine scarlet colour. Lindley called this plant L. Sinicum, and gave a 

 woodcut of it ("Flow. Card." ii., 1851-1852 ; "Misc., p. 115, c. ic, xylog. 193). The 

 plant flowered the same year it was introduced, but it seems to have been soon lost, and 

 it is to Mr. Fortime that we owe its re-introduction. It has, nevertheless, remained 

 very rare in gardens up to this time. The stem of this Lily is do\vny, almost cottony : 

 its leaves are alternate linear-oblong, covered with a slight do^^^l, and the three upper 

 ones are gathered together in a whorl at the base of the inflorescence. The segments 

 of the perianth are revolute, smooth on the inner surface, and slightly downy along their 



