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distinct claw than any variety o( BuJlnferum, and wants the cottony 

 pubescence that occurs upon the stem and outside of the perianth of 

 all forms of the latter. 



21. L. M'ulooloides. — A. Gray, Mem. Amcr. Acad., vi., C, 415; 

 Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat., iii., 15(3. — MacuJatnw , Thunb., Linn. 

 Trans., ii., ool-; Mem. Acad. Petrop., iii., 201., t. 5, fig. 1 ?— 

 Canademc, Thunb., Fl. Jap., 204 ? (a figure of the bulb is given, 

 page 108). Stem, 1 to 2 feet high, slender, smooth, terete, fiexuoso ; 

 leaves, mostly arranged in a single whorl of seven to fourteen ; 

 leaves, above the middle of the stem, oblanceolato, patent, tender, 

 smooth, green, 4 to inches long, 9 to 15 lines broad above the 

 middle, acute, with two to four distinct lateral veins; there are some- 

 times a few scattered leaves above the whorl ; flowers, solitary, or two 

 to three in an umbel; pedicels, short, erect at the top; perianth, 12 

 to 15 Hues long, erecD, of an open funnel-shape, and brilliant orange- 

 red colour, marked on the inside with a few clai'et-coloured dots ; 

 segments, lance-shaped, slightly falcate from the base, callous at the 

 tip, channelled, downy, o to 4 lines broad in the middle, slightly 

 spathulate at the base ; groove, on the keel indistinct, smooth ; 

 filaments, half the length of the perianth ; anthers, 1 to 5 lines long ; 

 ovary, club-sha])ed, 4 lines long; style, erect, a little shorter. — 

 Japan, near Hakodadi, C. Wright. The Corean Island, Herschel, 

 in inundated woods, where it flowers in June. Oldham, 873; it 

 approaches most closely to Martarinn and Avcnaceuin ; but is easily 

 distinguished by its erect flowers, falcate (not revolute) segments, and 

 short stamens and pistil.* 



22. L. Cuvcolor. — SaHsb. Parad., t. 47 ; Kunth, Enum. iv., 259 and 

 073; Fisch and Mey. Ind. Sem., 1830, 55. — Sinicum, Lindl. iuPaxt. 

 Flow. Gard., vol. ii.. Misc. 115, t. 193; Lemaire, 111. Hort, t. 100; 

 Van Houtte, Flore cles Serres, t. 1,200. — Bulb {see page 100), ovoid» 

 perennial, small ; scales, few, whitish, oblong, acute ; stem, slender, 

 about a foot high, slightly pubescent, sutt'used with purple ; leaves,. 

 20 to 30 in number; ascending, scattered, lance-shaped, of a deep 

 green colour, acute, 2^ to 3 inches long, 4 to lines broad in the 

 middle, indistinctly seven-nervcd, fringed with papilhe on the edges ; 



* An exceedingly distinct species, discovered near Hakodadi, Ja))an, in the United 

 States North Pacific Exploring Expedition nndcr (_'a]itains lliiigold and llogers, in 

 1853 — :>6, and since gathered by Oldliaiii in lltrschel Island, one ot"the members of the 

 Korean gronp. In general habit and foliage it is most like Martaqon, but in the shape 

 of the llower and its divisions, it iescml)lcs Concolor and Pulch".llum. 



Owing to the extreme smallness and lliiiiness of its scales, this Lily is an extremely 

 dillicult one to introduce from Japan. Alany hundred bulbs sent to us have dried up on 

 the voyage. 



So far as our experience goes, the bulbs o^ Jrcnnccum and Mcdcoloidcs are alijce in 

 form and shape, scr page 108, but Mcdcnloiilrs is said to have an erect jiurple spotted 

 llower, with a broail J/rt/-<rt'/oH-whorlcd foli;igc, its .Tapan<'s(! name, Kuraunt Jnri, may 

 be translated 2 wheeled or 2 wliorled Lily ; it would lie as well to susiiend judgment on 

 the diversity of these forms till they are better known, at present but few specimens. 

 have (lowered in Europe. 



