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and Xeilgherry Mountains,* in tlie Indian Peninsula; Wight,. 

 Gardner, &c. — L. Tuhijiorvni and Walliclt ianinn (Wiglit), are forms witK 

 narrower leaves (6 to 9 lines broad in the middle), and with narrower 

 perianth-segments (12 to 15 lines broad). 



7. L. Odoruiii {JaiDonicum). — Bury. Hexand. t, 2., Bot. Mag., 1. 1,591 ;: 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 438 ; Eeich. Exot., t 88 ; Kunth, Enum. iv., 257;. 

 Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat. iii., 157. — L. Odoritrn, Planch., L.Jaj)Oni- 

 cuiii Colchefferii, Fl. des SeiTes^ t. 2,193-4. — Bulb, globose, perennial ; 

 stem, 1 to 2 feet high, straight, smooth, spotted with purple ; leaves, 

 12 to 20 in number, scattered, ascending-, dark green, more slender 

 than those of Lonfjijiorum , smooth, lance-shaped, acute, 5 to 7 nerved, 

 8 to 12 lines broad in the middle, the lower ones 4 to 6 inches long ; 

 flowers, sweet-scented, usually solitary, white on the inside, and more 

 or le.ss tinged with purple on the outside ; perianth, 5 or G inches 

 long, broadly funnel-shaped, gradually widening from the base to the 

 neck, where it is from 15 to 18 lines in diameter; segments, oblance- 

 olate-clawed, obtuse, in the expanded flower, falcate in the upper 

 third part of their length, 15 to 18 lines broad at two-thu'ds of their 

 length from the base; filaments, whitish gTeen, shorter than the 

 perianth by one-third ; anthers, thick, oblong, 5 or 6 lines long ; 

 pollen, red; ovary, 12 to 15 lines long (together with the style, a 

 little longer than the stamens) ; stigma, _ 



4 lines in diameter; capsule, obovoid, 

 2 inches long, deeply and obtusely 

 six-angled. Temperate regions of 

 Japan, Maximo wicz; Islands of the 

 Corea, Oldham, 869. 



A native of Japan, introduced to this 

 country with L. Tignimm in 1804, by 

 Captain Kirkpatrick, of the East India 

 Company^ s Service. There is a speci- 

 men, di'ied, from Kew Gardens, pro- 

 bably not much later, in the British 

 Museum. It was gathered by Oldham 

 in the Korean Archipelago, and is said 

 to be also Chinese. It is not Himala- 

 yan, the plant intended by D. Don and 

 others, who have reported it from Nepaul, being Longiflorum var. 

 WaUichianum. From all the forms of Lorujiflorum it may be distin- 

 guished by — 1, its broader, fewer, and more spreading leaves; 2, the 

 shape of the entire flower, and broader claw of its divisions ; and, 3, its 



* Gathered in the neighbourhood of Ootacamund, at an elevatiou of about 8,000 ft. 

 b}' Ur. "Wight, Gardner, &c., and northward in the ^lysore territory, on Snowdon,. 

 and Dodiibetta Peaks, by T. Lobb. The range of form which it presents in the breadth' 

 of the leaves and size of the flower, may be seen by Dr. "Wight's three figures. It is 

 quite as variable as the Japan-Chinese sub-species. A valuable late llowering, and we- 

 believe, (|uite hardy Lily. Sec page 20. 



The Fragrant Lily {L. Odoriim). 



