BULBOUS PLANTS 



LILIUM LEICHTLINII, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5673 ; The Garden, 1882, vol. xxi. p. 236, pi. cccxxxi. 



A charming lily, somewhat difficult to cultivate, imported by Messrs. 

 Veitch from Japan with Lilium auratum. 



It resembles in some respects L. tigrinum, but differs in colour and in 

 a more graceful habit, scattered leaves, and crested inner segments of 

 the perianth. The flowers have a bright yellow groundwork, spotted with 

 clear red-purple or maroon-brown. 



In naming this lily, Sir Joseph D. Hooker writes (I.e. supra) : " I have 

 named this plant after the zealous cultivator of the genus to whom the 

 Eoyal Gardens are indebted for many rare species, M. Max Leichtlin, of 

 Carlsruhe, a gentleman who is especially devoting himself to the elucida- 

 tion, by culture, of the numerous species and races of this noble genus of 

 bulbous plants." 



LILIUM LONGIFLOEUM, var. FOBMOSANUM, Baker. 



Baker in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiv. p. 524 ; The Garden, 1880, vol. xviii. p. 458, fig. 

 p. 459 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1881, p. 10, with fig. 



A variety with more numerous, longer, and narrower leaves than the 

 type, a red keel at the back of the perianth segments. 



It is mentioned in Elwes' Monograph, but at the time of writing had 

 not been seen alive in this country. 



Bulbs were sent home by Maries from Formosa. 



LILIUM MYEIOPHYLLUM, Franch. 



Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxvii. p. 328, suppl. illus. ; Flora and Sylva, 1905, vol. iii. 

 p. 328, col. pi. fig. 1, also p. 331, fig. 



A charming lily with numerous narrow slightly twisted lanceolate leaves 

 clothing the stem from base to apex. The flowers large, trumpet-shaped, 

 of substance, have a pure white ground colour stained with rose-purple 

 on the exterior of the perianth and inside, as far as the throat a rich 

 golden-yellow ; the anthers large, the pollen orange-yellow. The flowers 

 open during the latter part of August to the beginning of September. 



Originally discovered by Pere Delavay in Central China, introduction by 

 Messrs. Veitch did not take place till bulbs were collected in 1904. 



LILIUM NEILGHEEKENSE, Wight. 



Syns. L. WallicManum, Wight ; L. neilgerricum, Hort. Veitch. 



Baker in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 230; PI. Mag. n.s. t. 237 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6332; 

 1'Illus. Hort. vol. x. t. 253 ; PI. des Serres, 2266-2267. 



This, the only lily of the mountains of Southern India, inhabiting 



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