LILIUM 



THE BULB BOOK 



LILIUM 



spotted with blackish-purple, as many 

 as thirty often hanging like bells 

 from the tops of the stems. (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1405 ; Elwes, Lil. t. 36.) 



Ii. myriophyllum. A fine Western 

 Chinese Lily, 2i to 5 ft. high, with 

 numerous narrow, lance - shaped, 

 closely-arranged leaves, and trumpet- 

 shaped blossoms of great substance, 

 with petals reflexed at the tips. The 

 colour is white washed with brown or 

 chocolate. (Bot. Mag. t. 8102 ; Flora 

 and Sylva, December 1905.) 



L. neilgherense (L. tuljiftorum). 

 A fine Indian species too tender for 

 open - air culture in the British 

 Islands. It grows from 2 to 3 ft. 

 high, and has sweet-scented, pale 

 sulphur - yellow, tubular flowers. 

 (Garden, 1885, ii. 488 j Elwes, Lil. t. 

 65 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6332.) 



L. nepalense. A native of India, 

 Burma, and China, being common at 

 elevations of 5000 to 9000 ft. in the 

 latter country. Stems 1 to 3 ft. high 

 with nodding bell-shaped flowers of a 

 beautiful soft yellow, the lower half 



bearing lance-shaped leaves in whorls 

 of twenty, more or less, and bright 



FIG. 238. I/ilium nnlgherense. (J.) 



of the recurved petals being washed 

 and blotched with rich purple-brown 

 (Elwes, Lil. t. 5 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7043). 

 It is safer to grow this species in a 

 greenhouse. 



L. nitidum. A Californian Lily 

 with oblong bulbs, and green and 

 purplish stems about U ft. high, 



Fio. 239. Lilium nepalense. (J.) 



yellow flowers copiously spotted with 

 reddish-brown on the upper half of 

 the segments. 



L. occidentale. A Californian 

 Lilium with a short rhizomatous 

 root-stock and stems 2 to 6 ft. high, 

 having leaves in whorls of five to 

 twelve or more. Flowers H to 2| ins. 

 long, crimson towards the tips, orange- 

 red with copious black spots lower 

 down the segments. 



L. ochraceum. This Lily is closely 

 allied to L. monadelphum (Szovitsi- 

 anum), and comes from the mountains 

 of Western China, at an altitude of 

 9000 to 10,000 ft. The smooth shin- 

 ing stems are 3 to 4 ft. high, furnished 

 with scattered lance - shaped leaves 

 about 2 ins. long, and bearing droop- 

 ing, yellow, unspotted flowers with 

 reflexed segments. 



L. oxypetalum. A pretty little 

 species from the Himalayas (altitude 



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