AND THEIR CULTUKE. 



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and Neilgherry Mountains,* in the Indian Peninsula; Wight> 

 Gardner, &c. L. Tabiflorum and Wallicliianum (Wight), are forms with 

 narrower leaves (6 to 9 lines broad in the middle), and with narrower 

 perianth-segments (12 to 15 lines broad). 



7. L. Odorum (Japonicum). Bury. Hexand. t. 2., Bot. Mag., 1. 1,591 ; 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 438 ; Reich. Exot., t 88 ; Kunth, Enum. iv., 257 ; 

 Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat. iii., 157. L. Odorum, Planch., L. Japoni- 

 cum Cohhesterii, Fl.des Serres, t. 2,193-4. Bulb, globose, perennial ; 

 stem, 1 to 2 feet high, straight, smooth, spotted with purple ; leaves, 

 12 to '20 in number, scattered, ascending, dark green, more slender 

 than those of Longiflorwn, smooth, lance-shaped, acute, 5 to 7 nerved, 

 8 to 12 lines broad in the middle, the lower ones 4 to 6 inches long ; 

 flowers, sweet-scented, usually solitary, white on the inside, and more 

 or less tinged with purple on the outside ; perianth, 5 or 6 inches 

 long, broadly funnel-shaped, gradually widening from the base to the 

 neck, where it is from 15 to 18 lines in diameter; segments, oblance- 

 olate-clawed, obtuse, in the expanded flower, falcate in the upper 

 third part of their length, 15 to 18 lines broad at two-thirds of their 

 length from the base; filaments, whitish green, shorter than the 

 perianth by one-third; anthers, thick, oblong, 5 or 6 lines long; 

 pollen, red; ovary, 12 to 15 lines long (together with the style, a 

 little longer than the stamens) ; stigma, 

 4 lines in diameter ; capsule, obovoid, 

 2 inches long, deeply and obtusely 

 six-angled. Temperate regions of 

 Japan, Maximowicz; Islands of the 

 Corea, Oldham, 869. 



A native of Japan, introduced to this 

 country with L. Tigrinwn in 1804, by 

 Captain Kirkpatrick, of the East India 

 Company's Service. There is a speci- 

 men, dried, from Kew Gardens, pro- 

 bably not much later, in the British 

 Museum. It was gathered by Oldham 

 in the Korean Archipelago, and is said 

 to be also Chinese. It is not Himala- 

 yan, the plant intended by D. Don and The Fragrant Lily (L. Odorum}. 

 others, who have reported it from Nepaul, being Longiflorwn varv 

 Wallichianum. From all the forms of Longiflonim it may be distin- 

 guished by 1, its broader, fewer, and more spreading leaves ; 2, the 

 shape of the entire flower, and broader claw of its divisions ; and, 3, its 



* Gathered in the neighbourhood of Ootacamund, at an elevation of about 8,000 ft. 



quite as variable as the Japan-Chinese sub-species. A valuable late ilowering, and we 

 believe, quite hardy Lily. Sec page 20. 



