AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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bulb, from which it appears to me, together with what I gather 

 from Baker's description that the whole group will have to be placed 

 under Tigrinum. 



L. Maximowiczii has a sub-globose or oblate bulb the size of an 

 Orange, and is composed of about thirty broad, closely-imbricated 

 scales of yellow tint; indeed, the texture of the outer scales is just 

 that of a smooth Kidney Potato. Our figure is an exact representa- 

 tion of a well-developed bulb. 



L. Speciosum. This plant has a bulb the size of a large St. Michael 

 Orange, globose, brown or brownish-red as a rule, sometimes white 

 or yellowish* the scales being thick, fleshy, broa^d, lance-shaped, and 



L. Speciosum (Japan) ; natural size ; imported flowering bulb, with a reduced figure of 

 freshly-dug specimen ; colour, white-yellow, orange-brown, or reddish-purple. t 



closely imbricated in newly dug bulbs, but with loose or open scales 

 in dried imported specimens. Our figure shows a full-sized flowering 



, the smaller figure is too much flattened at the apex, 

 the central scales generally push up to a point as in the figure of Neilgherrense, p. 93, in 

 the larger figure, the scales, are too lax and wide apart, the figure reminds me of an old 

 bulb decaying there is no young close growth depicted ; vertically the figure is too 

 short. Bulbs of Speciosum are very compact, very solid, and very tall, the scales all 

 curl up to a point like those in the figure of Davuricum, p. 104, and as compared with 

 those of Auratum, are longer, broader, thinner, blunter at the tip, fewer in number, and 

 of a softer texture. 



