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and the antliers, wliicli are curved downwards, so that the insects would 

 brush out the pollen therefrom. This is one of innumerable illustrations 

 of adaptation and design offered to the intellig-ent plant lover. It was at 

 one time supposed that the Japanese CordifoUum was the- same as, or a 

 variety of Giganteum of Nepaul. From our figure, however, it will be 

 seen that the differences between this species and Giganteum are well 

 marked. The leaves are more distinctly cordate than in Gicjanteum, the 

 flowers less numerous and more crowded, the bracts much broader, the 

 flower buds erect, not pendulous, the flowers of a different shape, more 

 widely spreading at the limb, the segments of a different form, and the 

 curvature and relative length of the stamens quite different,* We do 

 not know if these are general characteristics, as we speak only from the 

 specimen before us. It would seem that botanists have been misled by 

 the examination of dried specimens only. Much allowance must be also 

 made for individual variation. The entire height of the stem is 20 inches. 

 The first fully developed leaf scar is exactly 12 inches from the base of 

 the stem, and is about half an inch broad. Six inches below this is a 

 small round scar about \ inch broad, which may have given origin to a 

 very small leaf, which must soon have withered. In the 4 inches above 

 the second well developed scar, are crowded the insertion of no less than 

 six leaves. This exactly agrees with M. Max Leichtlin's statement that 

 the stalk is not leafy but rises bare to the height of from 1 to 2 feet, and 

 then 6 to 8 leaves appear in a sort of rosette. The following are exact 

 measurements of the Kew specimen : — 1st leaf 6 inches. 2nd leaf 12 

 inches. 3rd leaf 14 inches. 4th leaf 15 inches. oth leaf 15f inches. 

 6th leaf IGi- inches. 7th leaf 17^ inches. 8th leaf 18 inches. Oth leaf 

 19 inches, Ist flower 20 inches, above the base of stem." — W. T. Thiselton 

 Dyer, Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. 8., p. 406. 



2. L. Giganteum.— SYdilWch., Tent. Fl. Nep. 21, t. 12-13 (excl. syn.) ; 

 Kunth, Enum. iv., 268 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4,673 ; Flore des Serres, 

 t. 771-2; Belg. Hort. iii., t. 21.— i. CordifoUum, D. Don, Prod. Nep. 

 52, non Thunb. — Balb [see page 91), globose, caBspitose, perennial, 

 3 to 4 inches thick ; scales, ovate, somewhat spreading ; stems, 6 to 

 10 feet high, terete, smooth, green, 1^ to 2 inches thick at the base ; 

 radical leaves, green, not tinged with red; stem-leaves, 12 to 20 in 

 number, extending to the base of the stem, scattered, ovate-acute, 

 deeply cordate at the base, of a deep green colour, reticulated-veined, 

 the lower ones 12 to 18 inches in length and breadth; leaf-stalks, 

 erect-patent, channelled, 9 to 12 inches long, the upper ones gradually 

 smaller, and on shorter foot-stalks ; raceme, of 10 to 12 flowers, and 

 from 1 to 2 feet in length, attaining a foot in width when fully 



* AVe have noticed also the follo\ving differences. 1. The bulb of Cvrdifolium is much 

 smaller than that of Giganteum, being no bigger than one of the offsets found at 

 the base of the dead flowering stalk of the latter species, and in shape much resembles 

 a Filbert. 2. The bud at starting has the outer leaves more closeh' imbricate and of a 

 pinkish character. 3. The leaf in G-igantcum is more acutely cordate ; the length of 

 the stalk greater, and the colour much lighter. 4. The foliage in CordifoUum is more 

 or less pendulous ; in Giganteum more erect. A good figure of this Lily is given in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. 8, p. 305. 



