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NOTES ON LILIES 



16. L. !r/j///»/f//?.— Gawl.,Bot. Mag.,t. 1,287; Red. Lil.,t. 395 and 

 475; Kunth, Emim., iv., 25l>. — /;. Sjieciosum, Andrews, Bot. 

 Rep., t. 58(>, nou '.rimnLerp:. — Bulb {sec page 90.), perennial, 

 globose, -with oblong-lunce-shaped, acute scales ; stem, 2 to 4 

 feet liigli, blackish or brownish, with a white cobweb-like 

 pubescence; leaves, deep green, scattered, smooth, ascending, 

 firm, linear, 3 or 4 inches long, 3 to lines broad in the middle, 

 5 to 7 nerved, the upper ones shorter, and bearing brownish red l)ulbils 

 in the axils; raceme, consisting of o to 10 (rarely 20 to 25) flowers, 

 broad, deltoid when expanded, sometimes 12 to 15 inches in length 

 and breadth ; bracts, small, ovate ; pedicels divaricated, straight, 

 nodding at the top, the lower ones 3 or 4 inches long, and often 

 furnished with bracts; perianth,- 3 or 4 inches long, and of a brilliant 

 red colour, or tinged with orange; segments, broadly falcate, 

 acuminate, calious at the apex, downy, 9 to 18 lines broad below the 

 middle, the inner ones much broader, all with large dark-purple dots 

 on the inner surface ; claws, covered with numerous black-headed 

 papilla^ groove on the keel very deep, and with pubescent edges; 

 lilaments, crimson, 2 to 2^ inches long; anthers, blackish, G to 8 

 lines long; i)ollen, crimson; ovary, green, 9 to 12 lines long; style, 

 I5 to 2 inches long, very much curved. I have not seen the capsule. 

 Temperate regions of Japan and China. Flowers at the end of July 

 and during the whole month of August. For the forms in cultivation, 

 see T. Moore, Florist, 1873, 11. 



T. Splendciis. — Flore des Serres, t. 1,932 ; Wilson, Journal llort., 

 1873, 251, with a figure; Floral Mag., t. 509 (Leopold!), Hort., is a 

 large -flowered, very late blooming form, with larger dots, broader 

 leaves, and with black smooth stem. r\ ^ 



The Double Tiger Lily 

 <X. Tignnwn Flore Plcno). 



Tlie Great Tiger Lily 

 (L. Tigrinura Si^hndens). 



