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under tlie manuscript name of Lilium Batisua. Tliere are specimens 

 of this date in the herbaria both of Sir Joseph Banks (at the British 

 Museum), and of Sir J. E. Smith (at the Linuean Society), "Batisua " 

 is its vernacuhir Nepaulese name, but it was never pubUshed with a 

 diagnosis. In his " Prodromus " of the Nepaul Flora, Prof. D. Don 

 pubHshes it as " Japonicuni," with a diagnosis that appHes to the real 

 Ja-ponicura, but not to the Nepaulese plant. Wallich next, in his 

 "Tentamen," gave an excellent figure and full description of it under 

 the name of " Longiforum," and upon the information Avhich he fur- 

 nished, the younger Schultes separated, it as a distinct species under the 

 name of "M'aUichianum," which both Kunth and Spae adopt, though 

 without understanding clearly the true state of the case — that this is 

 the one sole Himalayan form of the Longi forum, series, and that it is 

 restricted to the liimala^^as, and that both Jd.ponicum and Longijiorinn 

 proper belong exclusively to Japan and China. 



Comparing together the Long/forum forms it is very interesting-, 

 from a geographico-botanical point of view, to note that we have 

 here, as in Cordifolium, an extremely distinct species, represented in 

 Japan and Hindostan by barely distinguishable forms. In Corcli- 

 folium there are but two of these so-called sub-species, one Japanese 

 and the other Himalayan, In Longiflorum the conditions of the case 

 are more complicated. We have four sub-s]jecies, one with a much 

 wider area in the extreme east, a second Himalayan^ a third belong- 

 ing to the mountains of the Indian peninsula, and a fourth insulated 

 in the mountain heights of the Philippines. Another curious point 

 to note is, that the Neilgherry sub-species comes appreciably nearer 

 to the Chinese-Japanese one, than does the Himalayan form. I 

 -should like much to direct the attention of cultivators, more to this 

 beautiful and easily obtainable Neilgherry Lily, and should much like 

 to know if all the forms could clearly be separated when gi-own in 

 European gardens from the already known forms of the Chinese- 

 Japanese plantj four of which, as I have said already (Longiflorum, 

 Eximium, Jama-piri,'^ and Taliesima) are now passing about in our 

 .gardens under specific names. t 



5. L. Longiflorum. — Thunb. Linn, Trans,, ii., 333 : Bot. Reg., t, 500 ; 

 Lodd, Bot, Cab,, t. 985 ; Bury, Hexand., t. 8 ; Kunth, Enum., iv., 

 266 ; Flore des Serres, t. 270 ; Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat,, iii., 157. 

 — Bulb (see p. 96) perennial, globose, yellowish, with lance-shaped 

 scales ; stem, 1 to 3 feet high, straight, smooth, green, 3 or 4 lines 

 in diameter; leaves, 20 to 40 in number, scattered, ascending, 

 tolerably closely set, of a shining green coXowv, flve-nervcd, those at 

 the middle of the stem 3 to 4 inches long, and 4 to 6 lines broad in 



* t7a?n«-y?«ri means iu Japanese, hill or mountain Lily, and is applied to several forms, 

 such as Callosum and Auratitm, which ai-e found in these localities. 



+ Decidedly, yes. With the exception of Jama-juri, which form we are unable to 

 recognise as distinct ; but which is considered by Duchartre as identical with Takcsima. 



