70 NOTES ON LILIES 



purest white are tinged with purple on the exterior, is also genei'ally 

 regarded as a Chinese species. Lastly M. E, A. Carriere, who was sent 

 to China by the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, has given us the " Lis faux- 

 tigre," L. Fseudo Tigrlnum, Carr., which was described and figured by him 

 in 1867.* 



Our knowledge of the East Indian species does not carry us back beyond 

 the last fifty years. In 1820 Wallich discovered in the Himalayas the 

 beautiful Gigantexm, Wallich, which, by the size and shape of its huge 

 stem and long petiolated leaves, has a peculiar port, which is reproduced 

 only in the Japanese Cordifolium, 'i'hunberg. The same botanist in 

 182G discovered another Indian species, with a great number of white 

 blossoms, tinged on the outside with green, which he supposed to be the 

 "Lis a longe fleur " of Japan, but which was named by Roemer and 

 Schultes, in 1820, Wallich's Lily, L. Wollichiannm. With this species 

 we range Tahiflora, R. Wright, another Indian species, with very large 

 flowers of purest white, figured and briefl}^ described by Mr. R. Wight, in 

 the year 1853, in the 5th vol. of Icones Plantariim India- Orientalis. To 

 this species I am inclined to refer as varieties Ncilgherrense and the 

 Wallichiaanm of the last-named botanist. It was not until 1825 that the 

 Nepaul Lily, L. Nepaleuse, D. Don, was described by David Don, although 

 it had been discovered in 1802 or 1803 by Francis Hamilton or by 

 Buchanan, a large flower of greenish j-ellow, the throat and tube of 

 bright purple. In 1839 Dr. Royle, in his work on the plants of the 

 Himalayas, added two more species of Lily to those already known in 



median furrow. As in the preceding species, the stamens are shorter tlian tlie periantli, 

 and longer than the pistil. The obovate ovary is at most as long as the style. In 1857 

 a description and coloured plate of the same Lily were given in the "Flore des Serres" 

 (second series, vol. ii., p. 19, pi. 1206), but as M. Planchon, the author of the description 

 just cited, remarks, there were some slight differences between the specimen there figured 

 and the type characterised by Lindley. {Duchartre). 



* L. Pscudo-Tigrinum is stated by M. Carriere to have been sent from China to the 

 Jardin des Plantes, Paris ("l!ev. Hort.," Nov. 1, 1867, 410—41-2). ]\lr. Max Leichtlin, 

 however, in a letter, stated that it was a native of the Liu-Kiu-lslands, which are to the 

 south of Japan, between 24^ and 28" of north latitude. Psciulo-l'igrinum attains a 

 height of more than 3 feet. It resembles in general aspect, and in many of its characters, 

 Tignnum, a fine species common in Japan, and of which I shall have to speak further 

 on. This species has since been determined to be identical with JMaximowicz's Lily. 



Pscudo-Tigrinum differs from Tigrinum in several particulars ; its rounded 

 stem is clothed, especially in the young state, with white appressed hairs ; the leaves 

 are numerous, alternate, crowded, linear, 10 to 12 centimetres (4 inches) long, 6 milli- 

 metres to 12 tcentimetres (^ int h to over \i inches) wide, narrowed to a point almost 

 immediately aliove the liase, channelled on the up[>er surface, which is glossy, and with 

 the mid-rib very prominent on the glabrous lower surface. Its flowers, at first ol)li<|uely 

 ascending, become afterwards horizontal, somewhat distant one from the other ; they are 

 ef a fine red colour, marked internally with deep brown points and spots, and in the 

 centre are provided with rather prominent tubercles. The segments of the perianth are 

 widely spreading and revolute. The style is red, and greatly exceeds the stamens in 

 length, and is terminated by a thick stigma with threi' unequal lobes. M. Cairiere says 

 this species may be easily distinguished from the nearly allied Tigrinum by its 

 roimded stem, which is not brown but green, and slightly mottled. It produces no 

 bulbils in the axils of its leaves, and these latter have only a single rib, while each leaf 

 of the Tiger Lily has from five to seven. The plant is very hardy ; it has only recently 

 been well known. (IJcdxrJ. 



j- Surely these are misprints for 12 millimetres and 1 inch. 



