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NOTES OX LILIES 



funnel-sliaped moutli. The beautiful ThiUppmeme {see Bot. Mag., 

 t. 0260), a slender, grassy-leaved species, introduced from the 

 Philippines a year or two ago I)}'' Messrs. Veitcli «fc Son, has the hulb 

 structure of /;0»'//7/oruv», which it also resembles in flower; indeed, 

 botanically it is interesting, as &'howing the extreme development of 

 the peculiarities that mark the Eulirion group. 



L. M'allichianiim. — The bulbs of this plant are in form like those 

 of Neilgherrensc, the main difference being in the remarkably thin 

 margins to the scales, and in the dried and exposed bulbs acquiring a 

 deep purplish red colour, quite distinct from anything I have seen in 

 any of the Luiigiforum type, the scales having thin, scarious margins. 

 This exhibition of colour in the . bulb would seem to imply that 

 WaUichi'imim is more closely allied to Japonicum- or Brownii than to 

 its ally J^eihjlicrrense, although some forms of the latter part are said 

 to show pink or rose colour in the flower; and that this tint is present 

 even in plants of the white and buff'-coloured varieties, is shown by 

 the purplish-brown stem, since this is the result of red colouring 

 matter having blended with the green colour ; but, as we have before 

 stated, vagaries of colour in the bulb arc so unaccountable and per- 

 plexing, that no reliance can be placed on them specifically, and even 

 in the case of iadividuals, there is apparently no relation between the 

 colour of the bulb and that of the flower. The flowering bulb from 



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L. Wcdlichianum (Central Himalayas) ; natiiral 

 ■size ; from cultivated hull) ; colour, dull criiiisou, 

 avith membranous scale margins. 



which our engraving was 

 made was a large and 

 developed one of a deep 

 pm'plish red or port-wine 

 colour, but the most pecu- 

 liar characteristic seemed 

 to be the scarious, mem- 

 branous margins to the 

 closely imbricated scales. 

 TJic individual bulb 

 laiidly sent to us by Mr. 

 Horsman, of the Colches- 

 ter New Plant and Bulb 

 Company, is interesting 

 as having supplied the 

 stately inflorescence from 

 which Mr. W. H. Fitch 

 prepared his beautiful 

 water-colour sketch. Our 

 illustration is exactly 

 natural size, literally scale 

 for scale, but, as a rule, 

 the bulbs of this species 

 do not attain so large a 



