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stem, 3 or 4 feet high, erect at the base, covered Avith whitish down, 

 ■of a lurid green colour, faintly spotted ; leaves, scattered, linear, 4 or 

 5 inches long, o or 4 lines broad, recurvcd-patent, revolute at the 

 edges, when young covered with whitish cobwob-like down on the 

 •edges and base outside ; raceme, loose, containing 4 to 6 flowers ; 

 pedicels, erect-patent, 2 or 3 inches long, nodding at the top ; bracts 

 and bracteoles, linear; perianth, 2 to 2g inches long, brilliant scarlet, 

 with numerous dark brown dots on the inside ; segments, ovate-lance- 

 shaped, 8 to 12 lines broad above the base, very revolute, and 

 covered with numerous lamellate papillfe ; groove, deep ; filaments, 

 2 inches long, scarlet; anthers, 6 or 7 lines long; pollen, red; style, 

 scarlet, 1 1- inches long, very much curved, twice as long as the ovary. 

 China. It flowers in our gardens in July and August.* 



46. L. WaUacei. — Very closely allied to this form and Leic/dlmii, 

 is another form, to which we have given the name WaUacei. The 

 bulbs, curiously enough, are small and ca3spitose, at least, they have 

 a great tendency to reproduction, and throw up numerous stems from 

 the one bulb ; the foliage and appearance are like those of a young- 

 Tiger, but with more crowded foliage; a Japanese form, and probably 

 ■a garden hybrid between Ma.nmoivicxii and Concolor; the foliage is 

 man-ow, lanceolate, jDointed, alternate, smooth ; stem, light green, not 

 pubescent; flower, of a rich vermilion orange, spotted at base and 

 -centre with numerous slightly raised small maroon spots ; petals, 

 stout, some reflexed ; autumn flowering. It flowered with us first in 

 1877, having been introduced in 1876. 



47. L. Pomjoonium. — Speciosum, 434; Bot. Mag., t. 271; Kunth, 

 Ennm., iv., 266 ; Reich. Ic. Germ., t. 991 ; Gren. FL, France, iii., 181. 

 — Rubrmn. Lam. and DC, Gall,, iii,, 213. — Bulb, ovoid, perennial; 

 ;scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; stem, 2 to 3 feet high, thick, 

 ;straight, channelled; leaves, 100 or more in number, deep green, 

 scattered, narrowly linear, ascending, the lower ones 2 to 4 inches 

 long, 1^ to 2 lines broad, three-nerved, with papillose and slightly 

 revolute margins, the lowest ones 3 or 4 lines broad, the upper ones 

 shorter and narrowly linear ; peduncle, bare for 2 or 3 inches below 

 ithe raceme; raceme, containing from 2 to 15 flowers; pedicels, 

 nodding at the top, often bracteolated ; perianth, fragrant, K to 2 

 duches long, usually of a vcnnilion-red, furnished with numerous 

 papillfe and black dots on the inside ; segments, closely revolute, 



* This Lily remiiuls one mueh of the Tiger group, which, indetMl, it resembles in Lulb, 

 .-and flower, but ditlers in the fact, that it has an erect, smooth, less woolly stem, and 

 does not emit bulbs in the axils of the leaves its foliage also is of a lighter green colour. 

 It rejoices in various names, such ixsJuciouium, Moximoiviczii. See Florist, 1873, p. 13, 

 It grows wild in Japan, on mountain slopes, and is very variable in colour, and 

 : spotting of the flower. 



It may be regarded as a hybrid, between a Tiger (perhaps Fortimei) and LeicMUnii. 

 It is a strong, erect, grower, 3 — 4 feet high, stem, more or less green ; flower, in shape 

 that of LcicltlHnii ; but in colour and marking more like Tigriiium Fortunci ; flowers 

 .the end of August ; is a fine ac<juisitiou to our hardy Lilies. 



