AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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"bulb, from wliicli it appears to me, together with what I gather 

 from Baker's description that the whole group will have to be placed 

 under Tigrinum. 



L. Maxlmowiczii has a sub-globose or oblate bulb the size of an 

 Orano-e, and is composed of about thirty broad, closely-imbricated 

 scales' of yellow tint; indeed, the texture of the outer scales is just 

 that of a smooth Kidney Potato. Our figure is an exact representa- 

 tion of • a well-developed bulb. 



L. SpecLOsuin. — This plant has a bulb the size of a large St. Michael 

 Orange, globose, bro^vn or brownish-red as a rule, sometimes white 

 or yellow'ish* the scales being thick, fleshy, broad, lance-shaped, and 



L. Speciosicm (Japan) ; natural size ; impoi-ted flowerin.fc bulli, ^vitll ,n reduced figure of 

 freslilj'-dug specimen ; colour, white-yellow, orange-brown, or reddish-purple. t 



closely imbricated in newly dug bulbs, but with loose or open scales 

 in dried imported specimens. Our figure shows a full-sized flowering 



* The bulbs of Spcciosum PMhrum, S. Roseum, and »S'. Album are all red, rosy, or purple, 

 •sometimes yellow. Those of .S'. Punctatum, and Japonicum Album are always yellow. 



+ These figures do not please me, the smaller figure is too much flattened at the apex, 

 the central scales generally push up to a point as in the figure of Xcilglicrrcnsc, p. 93, in 

 the larger figure, the scales are too lax and wide apart, the figure reminds me of an old 

 bulb decaying — there is no young close growth depicted ; vertically the figiu'C is too 

 short. Bulbs of SjKciosum are very compact, very solid, and veiy tall, the scales all 

 •cnrl up to a point like those in the figin-e of Davuricuni, p. 104, and as compared with 

 those of Auratam, are longer, broader, thinner, blunter at the tip, fewer in number, and 

 •of a softer texture. 



