AND THEIR CULTURE. 



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most careful culture. We think the fact that it is gathered on the mountains of 

 Japan, and exported annually in thousands, quite disposes of the idea that it is any thing 

 else but an indigenous form ; it may be originally a wild hybrid between Auratum and 

 some other form, but it certainly did not originate in Japanese cultivation. 



Compare Thunberg's remarks in the footnote on page 68, that his L. Japonicum "was 

 spontaneous (indigenous ?) at Miaco and elsewhere, and often cultivated by the Japanese 

 as an ornamental plant." Mr. Baker considers from his inspection of Thunberg's 

 original specimen now in the herbarium at Upsala, that Krameri is the plant there 

 referred to by Thunberg, in 1873, and described as an indigenous Japanese species. 



10. L. Nepalense.D. Don, Wern. Trans, iii., 412 ; Prodr. Nep. 52 ; 

 Wallich. PL Asiat. Ear. iii., 67, 291, Cat. 5,078 ; Kunth, Enum. iv., 

 267. L. Ocliroleucum, Wall, in nb. Lindley. Bulb, not known to me ; 

 stem, 2 to 3 feet high, straight, slender, smooth; leaves, 30 to 50 in 

 number, scattered, of a shining green colour, ascending, smooth, 

 lance- shaped, acute or linear, the lower 



ones 3 or 4 inches long, 6 to 9 lines 

 broad in the middle, distinctly five to 

 seven-nerved, the upper ones shorter 

 and distant from each other ; flowers, 

 solitary, or few in an umbel, slightly 

 fragrant (pedicels with bracts at the 

 base in a whorl of reflexed leaves), or 

 few in a loose raceme, the lower pe- 

 dicles ascending, 2 or 3 inches long; 

 nodding at the top ; perianth, 4 or 5 

 inches long, broadly funnel-shaped, 

 whitish-yellow, more or less tinged with 

 purple on the inside, often marked with 

 scattered dots ; segments, oblanceolate- 

 clawed, bluntish, in the expanded The *epaul LJ y (. 

 flower, falcate in the upper third part, 6 to 12 lines broad at two-thirds 

 of their length from the base ; stamens, shorter than the perianth by 

 one-fourth ; anthers, narrow, 6 or 7 lines long, pollen, yellow, ovary, 

 9 to 12 lines long, together with the style, a little longer than the 

 .stamens; capsule, ovate, 2 inches long, obtuse-angled. Temperate 

 regions of the Western and Central Himalayas, at an elevation of 

 7,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level, from Gurwhal and Kumaon to 

 .Nepaul. Wallich, Thomson, Jacquemont, &c. 



Introduced into England in 1855. Evidently a very beautiful 

 form. Unfortunately it is not in cultivation in Europe at the present 

 time. 



11. L. Candidum.L. Sp., 433; Bot. Mag., t. 278; Eed. Lil., 1. 199; 

 Bury, Hexand., t. 38 ; Eeich., Ic. Germ., t. 445 ; Kunth, Enum., 

 iv., 266. Bulb (see p. 97), ovoid, perennial, large, yellowish; first 

 leaves produced in winter, sessile, oblanceolate, 1^ to 2 inches broad ; 

 stem, 3 to 4 feet high, straight, smooth, blackish-green ; leaves, 100 

 or more in number, scattered, ascending, green, acute, two to five- 



