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NOTES ON LILIES 



The Neilgherry Lily 

 (L. Neilglierrense). 



6. L. NeilgJierrense.Wight, Ic., t. 2,031-2. L. Tuliftonm, Wight, 

 Ic., t. 2,033-4. L. WallicJnanum, Wight, Ic., t. 2,035, non Schultes, 

 fil. L. Metzii, Steud. in Holien. Ind. Or. Exsic., No. 954. L. Neil- 

 gherricum, Hort. Yeitch. Lemaire ; 111. Hort., x., t. 353. Bulb (see 

 page 93), globose, 2 or 3 inches long; scales, thick, lance-shaped; 



stem, 2 or 3 feet high, straight, 

 smooth, decumbent for some length at 

 the base ; leaves, thirty to forty in 

 number, of a shining green colour, 

 ascending, firm, closely set, scattered 

 (i.e., not in whorls), [distinctly three- 

 nerved, the lower ones 3 or 4 inches 

 long, and 12 or 13 lines broad in 

 the middle ; flowers, one to three in 

 number, ascending, white, fragrant ; 

 perianth, narrowly funnel-shaped, 6 or 

 7 inches long; tube, 2 or 3 inches 

 long, scarcely widened above the base ; 

 segments, oblanceolate-clawed, in the 

 expanded flower falcate only at the 

 apex, cuspidate, callous at the apex, 

 downy, 15 to 18 lines broad at three- 

 quarters of their length from the base ; stamens, a little shorter than 

 the perianth; anthers, narrow, yellow, 9 to 12 lines long; pollen, 

 yellow; ovary, 12 to 14 lines long, and, along with the slender style 

 (which is from 3 to 3 inches long), equal in length to the stamens ; 

 capsule, oblong, obtuse-angled. Temperate region of the Pulnies 



Wallichianum, stem tall, 4 6 feet high, foliage 3 5-ncrved, narrow, 

 acutely pointed, perianth green tinted externally, 7 9 inches long, tube 

 long, funnel-shaped, disc widely expanded, highly re volute. 



Neilglierrense, stem 2 3 feet high, foliage 3-nerved, very broad ; 

 perianth of a cream colour, shading into buff internally, 6 8 inches 

 long, tube long, funnel-shaped, disc star-shaped, with expanded seg- 

 ments, not revolute. 



"With Green , Longiflorum, dwarf habit, foliage 5-nerved, broad and short, perianth 

 Tinted Stems I bell-shaped, gradually increasing all its length, 4 5 inches long, disc 

 widely expanded, only slightly revolute, like Takesima. 



Eximium ( Wilsoni of others), stem 3 4 feet high, foliage 3-nerved, 

 crowded, long, narrow, acuminate ; perianth funnel-shaped, 6 7 inches 

 long, disc widely expanded, highly revolute, like Philippinense. 



Madame von Siebold, a form, as regards foliage, intermediate between 

 the two preceding, habit dwarf, perianth 7 8 inches long, bell-shaped, 

 disc perfect, widely expanded, but not revolute. 



For a very good paper on these Lilies, with woodcuts, see "Florist and Pomologist," 

 1874, p. 171. 



N.B. "We do not agree with Duchartre, as to any differentiation of these forms being 

 ^obtainable from the angle formed by the union of the flower and the stem supporting 

 them. 



