AND THEIR CULTURE. 147 



T. Fortunei is an early flowering form, having its stem densely 

 covered with greyish fluffy pubescence. 



T. Lishmanni .Moore, Fiorist, 1873, 13, with a figure, is a form 

 which has the dots confined to the central part of the segments, the 

 upper part and the base being without dots. 



T. Erectum has the pedicels less divaricated, and the flowers nearly 

 erect. Introduced to our gardens in 1804 by Captain Kirkpatrick, 

 but well known previously, though not named, by a figure published 

 in 1791 by Sir Joseph Banks.* 



17. L. Oxypetalum, Baker. Fritil- 

 Iciria oxypetala^oyle. 111. Him., 388? 

 Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 4,731 ; Lemaire, 

 Fleur., t. 422. L. Triceps, Klotsch, 

 Eeise, Wald., 33, t. 93. Bulb, oblong; 

 scales, few, lance-shaped, acuminate, H 

 inches long : stem, slender, terete, 

 green, one-headed, smooth, 1 to l^feet 

 ihigh; leaves, 20 to 30 in number, at 

 tfirst densely rosulate, scattered, ascend- 

 ing, green, smooth, lance-shaped or 

 linear, 2 to 3 inches long, and 3 to G 

 lines broad in the middle; perianth, 

 horizontal, broadly funnel-shaped, 1 5 to 

 18 lines long; segments, oblong, acute, 

 broadly imbricated, 8 or 9 lines broad Snak e's-head Lily (L. Oxypetalum]. 

 in the middle, purplish, tinged with green on the back, dotted with 

 purple on the lower half of the inner surface, and with numerous 

 papillae crowded together at the base ; claw, short, deeply furrowed 

 and bearded on the outside ; stamens, shorter than the perianth by 

 one-third; anthers, purplish, 3 or 4 lines long; filaments, diverging; 



* To these we may add two more forms. T. Fortunei Gigantcum, a pyramidal and 

 fine form of Fortunei, and T. Flore P/cno, a remarkably handsome and vigorous variety, 

 in which the perianth segments, instead of forming a single series as in the type, are 

 multiplied into about six series, and are for the most part opposite, lying over each 

 other in their recurved position, like the petals of the Hexangular Camellias. 



This group may be considered one of the most popular and well known ; few objects, 

 in autumn, stand out so conspicuously graceful as a. group of tall well-grown Tigers, 

 either the old Sinensis, or the grey hairy-stemmed Fortunei Giganteum, or the magnificent 

 fyjlendcns, especially if flanked on either side by a few blooms of Auratum. 



It is also a most useful plant for harvest festival decoration, its time of bloom exactly 

 coinciding. The old Sinensis is the first to appear, then, a fortnight later, Fortunei and 

 Flwc Pleno, and a fortnight later on, Splcndens. So that for a period of about 6 to 8 

 weeks, Tiger Lilies together with Spcciosum and Auratum are in full beauty. 



The variety, Lishmanni, described and figured by Moore, does not, we incline to 

 think, belong properly to this group, being not bulbiferous in the axils, but rather to be 

 one of the forms of Maximowiczii, a recently introduced and very variable species, 

 described later on. The great characteristic of the Tiger group, and one by which they 

 are easily propagated, is the constant presence in the axils of each leaf of 1 3 bublets 

 (bulbillti:), shiny and black, about the size of peas, which, in the autumn fall, or are 

 .gathered, and in 3 years time, will, if cultivated, produce flowering bulbs. 



