AND THEIR CULTURE. 175 



. This rare, but very beautiful Lily, was flowered by Mr. Geo. Maw, at Beuthall Hall, 

 in 1877, the flowers were then described of a pale cream colour, speckled internally with 

 linear dark purple markings. We have also flowered it at Colchester. It is a beautiful 

 and elegant form, colour yellowish, with purple lines and spots, resembling much in 

 shape of flower the preceding form, Szovitzianum. For remarks about its culture, see 

 pages 19 and 20. 



40. L. Ponticum. K. Koch, Linnaea, xxii., 234 ; Duchartre Obs. 

 22. Bulb, ovoid, an inch in diameter ; scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; 

 stem, 1^ to 2 feet high, slender, faintly pubescent in the upper part ; 

 leaves, 20 to 30 in number, scattered, lance-shaped, firm, ascending, 

 15 to 18 lines long, 4 to 5 lines broad, the upper one narrower; veins, 

 numerous, distinct ; lower part of the inside, and edges pubescent ; 

 flowers, 1 to 6 in number, nodding, 18 to 21 lines long, yellow; seg- 

 ments, oblanceolate, reflexed below the middle, where they are 3 or 4 

 lines broad, scarcely dotted ; groove, shallow ; filaments 3 or 4 lines 

 long, half the length of the perianth; ovary, 6 lines long, a little 

 shorter than the club-shaped style; capsule, 1 inch long, obovoid, 

 obtuse-angled. Mountains of Asia Minor, at an altitude of 6,000 to 

 7,000 feet, K. Koch ; the mountainous regions of Lazistan Balansa, 

 Plantes de POrient, anno 1866, No. 1,531. It has the leaves and 

 habit of Monadelphuin ; but is more slender, and the typical perianth 

 of this species is more revolute. RegeFs figure (Grartenflora, t. 436), 

 which is referred by K. Koch to Ponticum, in my opinion represents 

 the true Szovitzianum. In De Candolle's herbarium there is a narrow- 

 leaved specimen from Lazistan, in which the leaves are more crowded, 

 the lower ones 3 inches long, and 3 or 4 lines broad, resembling a 

 variety of Monadelplium. 



"We cannot recognise this form as ought, but a variety of Szovitzianum, probably our 

 variety. B. See preceding page. 



41. L. Carniolicum. Bernh. in Mert and Koch., Deutsch. Flora, 

 ii., 536; Kunth, Enum., iv., 260; Reich. Ic. Flor. Germ., t. 990; 

 Parl. Flor. Ital., ii., 404. Chalcedonicum, Linn. sp. Plant., 434, ex 

 parte ; Jacq. Fl. Austr. SuppL, t. 20; Martagon Pannonicum sive 

 Exoticum Flore Spadiceo, Parkins, Parad., 35. Bulb (seepage 113), 

 perennial, ovoid ; scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; stem, 2 or 3 feet 

 high, green, puberulous ; leaves, thirty or forty in number, scattered, 

 ascending, lance-shaped, or linear-lance-shaped, the lower ones 2 or 3 

 inches long, 6 to 9 lines broad in the middle, flat, distinctly many- 

 nerved, and distinctly ciliated on the margins and the veins of the 

 lower part inside ; upper leaves shorter ; pressed close to the 

 peduncle ; raceme, few-flowered ; pedicels, 2 or 3 inches long, nodding 

 at the top, sometimes bracteolated ; perianth, 1| to 2 inches long, of 

 a brilliant yellow or vermilion; segments, oblanceolate, closely 

 revolute, 5 or 6 lines broad in the middle, with numerous minute dots 

 on the inner surface, papillose downwards; groove distinctly ex- 

 <cavated; filaments, 8 to 12 lines long; anthers, 5 or 6 lines long; 

 pollen, saffron ; ovary, 5 or 6 lines long, as long as the club-shaped 



