AND THEIR CULTURE. 159 



It flowers in our gardens in July along with Croceum, and after 

 Bulbiferum.* Umbellatum, of most gardens, is a luxuriant garden 

 iorm of Davuricum, For its varieties, see Regel, Gartenfl., 1872, 

 295. 



26. L. Elegans.Thunb., Mem. Acad. Petr., iii., 203, t. 8, fig. 2. 

 Bulbiferum } Thunb., Linn. Trans., ii., 333. Philadelphicum, Thunb., 

 Fl. Jap., 135. Thunbergianuw , Schultes fil., Syst. Veg., vii., 415 ; 

 Lindl. Bot. Keg., 1839, t. 38 ; Maund. Bot., t. 158 ; Regel., Gartenfl. 

 1872, 296. Attrantiacum, Paxt. Mag., vii., 127, with a figure. 

 Bulbt like those of Bulbiferum and Croceum; stem, about a foot 

 high, smooth, or slightly covered with cobweb-like down, or pilose, 

 stout, furrowed ; leaves, 20 to 30 in number, ascending, scattered, 

 firm, deep green, smooth, distinctly five to seven nerved, the lower 

 ones 3 to 4 inches long, the upper ones shorter, 6 to 12 lines broad 

 in the middle, not bearing bulbils in the axils ; perianth, usually 

 solitary, 3 to 3 inches long, when fully expanded, 5 or 6 inches broad, 

 of an orange-red colour ; segments oblong, spathulate, obtuse, scarcely 

 dotted, muck less lameilated and papillose than those of Davuricum, 

 outer ones 12 to 13 lines, and inner ones 15 to 18 lines broad in the 

 middle; groove, distincly excavated, 8 or 9 lines long, with pilose 

 edges; filaments, li to 2 inches long; anthers, 4 or 5 lines long; 

 ovary, 1 inch long, half the length of the style; capsule, obovoid, 

 2 inches long, sub-acutely six-angled, one half longer than its breadth. 

 Japan ; it flowers in our gardens in the beginning of July, under 

 very many forms, of which the following are the most notable : 



Var. 1^ Brevifolium, Baker and Dyer, "Gard. Chron.," 1872, 

 1,356. Alternant, hort. ; leaves, broader and shorter, the lower ones 

 2 to 2| inches, the upper ones 1 to 1^ inches long, all 7 to 9 lines 

 broad, and of a deep green colour ; perianth, less open, of a pale red 

 colour throughout, with a few black dots at the bottom : filaments 

 and style a little longer. 



Var. 2, Bicolor, Moore, " Floral Mag./' t. 104. Pidum, hort. Sie- 

 bold. Aurantiacum f }iOTt. Krelage; stem, scarcely a foot high; leaves, 

 about 40 in number, narrower, the lower ones 4 to 6 lines broad ; 

 perianth, 3 to 3 inches long ; segments, broader than in any other 

 variety (the inner ones 18 to 21 lines broad), with yellow centre, red 

 sides, and a few dots near the base. 



* It was originally figured in the Botanical Magazine, under the name of Pcnnsylvanicum, 

 under the supposition that it came from America ; but the mistake was corrected in the 

 volume for 1809, and the plant re-named Davuricum, after the region of Siberia in 

 which it is most abundant. This name, Davuricum, has priority over Spectabile, which 

 only dates from 1821. 



t We have been unable to obtain a satisfactory woodcut of bulbs of the true Thun- 

 beryianum type ; they are in shape and size much like those of Philadclphicum on 

 page 102, but the numerous scales are thinner, natter, broader at the base, and more 

 acute at the tip than are those of PJiiladelpliicum. The bulb of Thunbcrgianum 



X"mdens, page 105, approaches in form and size those of the Umbellatum group, and is 

 gether a coarser bulb than that of the true Thunlergianum type. 



