AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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tinged with purple, slender, terete, smooth; leaves, 20 to 30 in 

 number, scattered, distant Irom each other, very shortly stalked 

 (stalk pressed close to the stem), lauce-shape, acuminate, of a deep 

 green coloui", smooth, firm, five- 

 nerved, the lower ones 6 to 9 inches 

 long, and 9 to 15 lines broad; 

 raceme, deltoid, containing fiom 

 3 to 10 flowers; pedicels, divari- 

 cated and furnished with bracts ; 

 perianth, 5 to 7 inches long ; 

 segments, broadly falcate, 1 to 2 

 inches broad in the middle (the 

 inner ones broader), white, usually 

 streaked u'ith yellow in the mid- 

 dle, and with scattered purple 

 dots and papilla? on the lower 

 part of the inner surface ; groove 

 on the keel, distinct, and with 

 smooth edges; filaments, 3 to 3^ 

 inches long; anthers, narroiv, 

 9 to J 2 lines long ; pollen, red ; 

 ovary, 12 to 14 lines ; style, slen- 

 der, very much curved, 2} to 34- 

 inches long ; capsule, 3 inches 

 long, oblong, longer and narrower 

 than that of Spcciosnm, emargi- 

 nate at the apex. — Japan, Old- 

 ham,* ISG, Maximowicz. There The Goiaen-Banded Lily (Z,. ^!(r«?;«?/i). 

 are forms approaching Sj^ecios um, v^ith flowers streaked with red; 

 some of these have from 25 to 30 broader leaves, and others from 

 40 to 50 narrower leaves. — Wittei, Suringar, is a variety with white 

 undotted petals. 



It was first introduced into Europe in 18G2 by Messrs. Yeitch. 



Auratuiii is deciiledly the giandcst Lily known to fultivators ; for description of 

 its gorgeous magnificence and beautiful fragrance, sec pp. 33, 43, 44. 



It is a most variable form, hardly any two being alike, amongst the most prominent 

 varieties we may mention. 



(«). A iasciated form, with broad banded (not cylindrical) stem, containing from 30 

 to 100 flowers, generally small, crowded together in its summit. 



(h). lluhro-xittatum, in which the yellow streak is replaced by a broad crimson band, 

 the spots and blotches being large, and of a vivid crimson tint. Li this variety there 

 are only two colours, crimson and white ; forming a most splcmlid contrast. 



(c). Crucntum, a dwarf form, with flowers 11 inches in diameter, the streak is maroon, 

 darkening to the centre, so as to produce tlie ett'ect of a dark eye, the spots are purplish 

 crimson. 



* L'ri is the .Japanese word for Lily, and Yama for Hill : Ynma Uri the Hill Lily, is 

 the native name for An rat urn. —OlAXxam wrote of it, "a splendid showy plant, growing 

 chiefly in light rich soil amongst the shrubs and between the rocks." 



