148 NOTES ON LILIES 



ovary, club -shaped, 5 or 6 lines long ; style, straight, shorter than 

 the ovary; capsule, obo void- oblong, 9 to 12 lines long, obtuse- 

 angled; valves, emarginate at the apex. Temperate regions of the 

 Western Himalayas (Hoffmeister) ; Kumaon to Pindari, at an altitude, 

 of 8,000 to 12,500 feet (Strachey and Winterbottom) .* 



18. L. Speciosum. Thunb.,Linn.Trans.,ii.,332; Bot.Keg.,t. 2,000; 

 Zuccarini, in Sieb. Fl. Jap., in., 31, t. 12 and t, 13, fig. 1 ; Kunth, 

 Enum., iv., 259; Bot. Mag., t. 3,735; Flore des Serres, t. 276. 

 Lancifolium, Mussche, Paxt. Mag., v., 267, with a figure, non Thunb. 

 Bulb (sec page 101), perennial, globose, brown or brownish-red; 



scales, lance-shaped, an inch long, some- 

 what loosely set ; stem, 2 or 3 feet high,, 

 straight, terete, smooth, green, or spotted 

 with red; leaves, 12 to 20 in number,, 

 scattered, distant from each other, very 

 shortly stalked (the stalk pressed close to- 

 the stem), oblong-lance-shaped, acute or 

 acuminate, of a shining green colour, firm, 

 smooth, round at the base, the lower ones 

 5 to 6 inches long, 15 to 18 lines broad 

 in the middle, and with five to seven 

 distinct nerves distant from each other; 

 raceme, deltoid, containing from three to 

 ten flowers ; pedicels, divaricated and f ur- 

 The Bed-spotted Japan Lily iiished with bracts, the lowest 3 to 5 inches- 

 (Z. Spcdosum var. n-ubrum). long, the central ones nearly erect, the 

 lateral ones nodding at the top ; perianth, 3 or 4 inches long ; seg- 

 ments, ovate-lance-shaped, deeply falcate, 12 to 21 lines broad, the 

 inner ones broader, white, usually more or less suffused with red, dotted 

 with red on the inner surface, and with numerous papilla ; groove on 

 keel deep and smooth ; filaments, diverging widely, 2|- to 3 inches 

 long; anthers, narrow, 9 to 12 lines long; pollen, saffron or red; 

 ovary, 1 inch long ; style, slender, very much curved, 1^ to 2 inches- 

 long ; capsule, obovoid- oblong, 2 inches long, obtuse-angled, umbili- 

 cated at the apex. Temperate region of Japan, flowers in the 

 beginning of August. 



For the forms in cultivation, sec Dr. Masters, "Gard. Chron.," 1872, , 

 p. 1,522. 



Punctatum, Lemaire (Land folium, Paxt. Mag., v. t. 267, Albifloriim,. 

 Hook., Bot. Mag., t. 3,785), is a form which has white flowers with 

 red dots and papilla. 



* "We have no knowledge of this form, it is evidently very closely allied to the 

 Fritillarias. 



It seems altogether out of place among the Lilies with its alternate short slender 

 leaves, its few but elegant lilac tinted star-shaped flowers, scarlet anthers, and broad 

 acutely pointed petals, much dotted towards the eye with blapk, and a bulb elongated 

 like that of a Fritillaria, with but few acute 



