AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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Mr. Baker long regarded this plant as synonymous with Maculatum, 

 and the same opinion was expressed at the meeting at which the plant 

 was shown by Dr. Hooker. Herr Leichtlin, however, who is an 

 authority on all that concerns the genus to which this plant belongs, 

 considers the name of Maculatum as being synonymous with Medeo- 

 loides, a figure of Thunberg's published in the "Memoirs of the- 

 Academy of St. Petersburgh," being the authority for this opinion; 

 this figure is looked on by Mr. Baker as in some degree supporting 

 Herr Leichblin's opinion, without, however, fully proving it. In his- 

 " Notes on Lilies," published in the Linnean Society's <( Journal," 

 Mr. Baker has adopted for the present plant the name Hansoni* 



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L. Hansoni (Japan) ; from a well-grown cultivated bulb ; half natural size ; colour, 

 yellowish white, suffused with purple. 1 and 2, scales, in different positions;. 

 3, section of scale, natural size. 

 This figure well illustrates the autumnal bulb, on the left is seen the young growth, 



which will flower next season ; in the centre the old flower stem ; to the right old last 



years scales. 



Thunberg's description of a bell-shaped perianth by no means agrees 

 with the present species. The plant is about 4 to 6 feet high, with 

 distinct whorls of leaves 1 inch wide on the lower part of the stem, 

 near the top of which the leaves became alternate, a rather loose 

 umbel of five flowers crowning the whole. The flowers are very 

 distinct in form, having scarcely any tube, so that the blossoms are- 

 fully 3 inches across ; they are of a deep tawny orange colour, with 

 a thickish cluster of black spots towards the base. The flowers are- 

 somewhat nodding, but the style makes an angle with the top of the- 

 ovary so as to assume an upward direction. The ovary, itself is very 

 deeply six-winged. This Lily flowers in June, and is perfectly hardy.* 



* This description does not do justice to the plant and should be compared with that- 

 giVen by us' in the'Synopsis in the -next chapter. 



