134 NOTES ON LILIES 



shorter anthers, with pollen tinged with red. Both this and Longi- 

 florum are rather tender in England, and need protection in winter.* 

 8. L. Brownii. Mielli, Flore des Serres, t. 47, is a tall, large- 

 flowered form, with from 25 to 30 leaves, and with larger flowers 

 more deeply tinged with purple on the outside than the preceding 

 form. For plate of Bulb, see p. 9G. 



A magnificent Lily, frequently found in gar- 

 dens under the name of L. Brownii, the origin 

 of which is very obscure. Its specific name 

 presents certain difficulties, for it is not easy to 

 determine who was the author of it. Spae, in 

 his memoir on the Lilies presented to the 

 Academy of Sciences at Brussels (July 5, 1845), 

 attributes it to F. E. Brown, nurseryman, of 

 Slough, near Windsor, in whose catalogue it 

 was inserted about 1838 or 1839. According 

 to Spae, the name was reproduced by Miellez 

 in the catalogue of the exhibition held by the 

 Horticultural Society of Lille, in June, 1841, 

 Brown's Lily (L. Japonicum and in the catalogue of the Royal Agricultural 

 var. Brownii). an Botanical Society of Ghent, in June, 1843. 

 The same author gave a description and a coloured figure of it in the 

 first volume of the " Annales de la Soc. Roy. d'Agric. et de Botan. de 

 Gand.," (i., 1845, p. 437-438, pi. 41). Priority then belongs to the 

 name Brownii, of Brown; although in the same year (1845) M. Charles 

 Lemaire also described this plant in the (f Flore des Serres," (i., 1845, 

 p. 110), and illustrated it by an unnumbered coloured plate. 



As to the native country of this fine species, M. Lemaire says in 

 his article, " origin and specific name doubtful," and Spae writes, 

 '" country unknown." Siebold thinks it a native of Nepaul, and also 

 of China and Japan. M. Max Leichtlin wrote to me recently, stating 

 that the plant was of Chinese origin, and on his authority I have 

 admitted this Lily as a native of China very probably also of Japan, 

 but not of India. Whatever be its origin, Brownii is a magnificent 

 plant, which has often been considered to be the problematical 

 Japonicum, very badly characterised by Thunberg. Siebold's 

 catalogue for 1870-1871, p. 51, mentions it under the name of 

 Japonicum, Thunb., var. Brownii ; nevertheless, as I have had several 

 specimens derived from different sources, and which have all presented 

 the same characteristics, I am disposed to think that it should be 

 admitted as a distinct and well-marked species. Its stem is between 



* Three bulbs of this form were originally sent over to us in 1871-72, by M. Carl 

 Kramer, from Japan, as a fine form of Longijiorum, the bulbs were large and distinct in 

 shape. We carefully planted them out of doors ; one of the three plants flowered ; we took 

 the flower to Kew, and it was identified with the figure given by Mrs. Bury ; but the bulb 

 dwindled away in a rather too cold and damp locality : subsequently, we obtained 

 further supplies of this very beautiful form. 



