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NOTES ON LILIES 



ovary, club-sliapeil, 5 oi- (! lines lont^ ; style, straight, shorter than 

 the ovary; capsule, obovoid-oblong, 9 to 12 lines long, obtuse- 

 angled; valves, eniarginate at the apex. Temperate regions of the 

 Western Himalayas (Hotf'meister) ; Kumaon to Pindari, at an altitude- 

 of 8,000 to 12,500 feet (Strachey and Winterbottom).* 



18. L.Speciosiini. — Thunb.,Tjinu.Trans.,ii.,o:j2; Pot. Reg., t. 2,000; 

 Zuccarini, in Sieb. Fl. Jap., iii., ol, t. 12 and t. 13, fig. 1 ; Kunth, 

 Eninn., iv., 259; Bot. Mag., t. o,785; Flore des Serres, t. 276. — 

 Lanrl folium, Musscho, Paxt. Mag., v., 267, with a figure, non ThunB. 

 — Bulb {sec page lol), perennial, globose, brown or brownish-red; 



scales, lance-shaped, an inch long, some- 

 what loosely set ; stem, 2 or 3 feet high, 

 straiglit, terete, smooth, green, or spotted 

 with red; leaves, 12 to 20 in number, 

 scattered, distant from each other, very 

 shortly stalked (the stalk pressed close to 

 the stem), oblong-lance-shaped, acute or 

 acuminate, of a shining green colour, firm, 

 smooth, round at the base, the lower ones 

 5 to 6 inches long, 15 to 18 lines broad 

 in the middle, and with five to seven 

 distinct nerves distant from each other; 

 raceme, deltoid, containing from three to 

 ten flowers ; pedicels, divaricated and fur- 

 nished with bracts, the lowest 3 to 5 inches 

 long, the central ones nearly erect, the- 

 lateral ones nodding at the top ; perianth, 3 or 4 inches long ; seg- 

 ments, ovate-lance-shaped, deeply falcate, 12 to 21 lines broad, the- 

 inner ones broader, white, usually more or less suffused with red, dotted 

 with red on the inner surface, and with numerous papillas ; groove on 

 keel deep and smooth ; filaments, diverging Avidely, 2h to 3 inches 

 long; anthers, narrow, 9 to 12 lines long; pollen, saffron or red; 

 o\a.vj, 1 inch long; style, slender, very much curved, H to 2 J inches 

 long ; capsule, obovoid-oblong, 2 inches long, obtuse-angled, uinbiU- 

 cated at the apex. Temperate region of .lapan, flowers in the 

 beginning of August. 



For the forms in cultivation, s-i:'':' Dr. ]\Iasters, "Card, Chron.,'"^ 1872, 

 p. 1,522. 



Piindatum, Lemaire {Lancifollum, Paxt. Mag., v. t. 267, Alhiflorum,. 

 Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 3,785), is a form which has white flowers with, 

 red dots and papilhe. 



* We have no knowledge of this form, it is evidently very closely allied to the- 

 FriiiUarias. 



It seems altogether out of place among the Lilies -with its nlternate short slender 

 leaves, its few but elegant lilac tinted star-shaped flowers, scarlet anthers, and broad 

 acutely pointed petals, much dotted towards the eye with black, and a bulb elongated, 

 like that of a Fritillaria, with but few acute scales. 



The Red-spotted Ja]ian Lily 

 (Z. Spcc'.osiim var. lluhruni). 



