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 AND THEIE CULTURE. 



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stem/ 3 or 4 feet high, erect at the base, covered with whitish down, 

 <of a lurid green colour, faintly spotted; leaves, scattered, linear, 4 or 

 5 inches long, 3 or 4 lines broad, recurved-patent, revolute at the 

 edges, when young covered with whitish cobweb-like down on the 

 edges and base outside ; raceme, loose, containing 4 to 6 flowers ; 

 pedicels, erect-patent, 2 or 3 inches long, nodding at the top ; bracts 

 and bracteoles, linear; perianth, 2 to 2 inches long, brilliant scarlet, 

 with numerous dark brown dots on the inside ; segments, ovate-lance- 

 shaped, 8 to 12 lines broad above the base, very revolute, and 

 'C0\vejred with numerous lamellate papillae; groove, deep; filaments, 

 '2 inches long, scarlet ; anthers, 6 or 7 liries long ; pollen, red ; style, 

 .-scarlet, l| inches long, very much curved, twice as long as the ovary. 

 'China. It flowers in our gardens in July and August.* 



46. L. WaUacei. Very closely allied to this form and Leic/itlinii, 

 is another form, to which we have given the name WaUacei. The 

 bulbs, curiously enough, are small and caespitose, at least, they have 

 a great tendency to reproduction, and throw up numerous stems from 

 fthe one bulb ; the foliage and appearance are like those of a young 

 Tiger, but with more crowded foliage; a Japanese form, and probably 

 -a garden hybrid between Maxwwwiczii and Concolor ; the foliage is 

 narrow, lanceolate, pointed, alternate, smooth ; stem, light green, not 

 pubescent; flower, of a rich vermilion orange, spotted at base and 

 cemtre with numerous slightly raised small maroon spots ; petals, 

 steust, some reflexed ; autumn flowering. It flowered with us first in 

 3-677, having been introduced in 1876. 



47. L. Pomponium. Speciosiim, 434; Bot. Mag., t. 271; Kunth, 

 &Liim., iv., 266 ; Eeich. Ic. Germ., t. 991 ; Gren. Fl., France, iii., 181 . 

 Mubrum. Lam. and DC., Gall., iii., 213. Bulb, ovoid, perennial; 

 scales, numerous, lance-shaped ; stem, 2 to 3 feet high, thick, 

 straight, channelled.; leaves, 100 or more in number, deep green, 

 scattered, narrowly linear, ascending, the lower ones 2 to 4 inches 

 Hong, li to 2 lines broad, three -nerved, with papillose and slightly 

 revolute margins, the lowest ones 3 or 4 lines broad, the upper ones 

 shorter and narrowly linear ; peduncle, bare for 2 or 3 inches below 

 the raceme; raceme, containing from 2 to 15 flowers; pedicels, 

 nodding at the top, often bracteolated ; perianth, fragrant, 1 to 2 

 inches long, usually of a vermilion-red, furnished with numerous 

 papillae and black dots on the inside; segments, closely revolute, 



* This Lily Reminds one much of the Tiger group, which, indeed, it resembles in bulb, 

 .and flower, but differs in the fact, that it has an erect, smooth, less woolly stem, and 

 does not emit bulbs in the axils of the leaves its foliage also is of a lighter green colour. 

 It rejoices in various names, such asJucundum, Maximo tviczii. See Florist, 1873, p. 13. 



It grows wild in Japan, ou iiioimtain slopes, and is very variable in colour, and 

 spotting of the flowt-r. 



It may be .regarded as a hybrid, between a Tiger (perhaps Foii.unci) and Lcichtlinii. 

 It is a -strong, erect, grower, 3 4 feet high, tem, more or less green ; flower, in shape 

 ;that of Lcicktlvnii ; but in colour aoid marking more like Tigrinum Fortunei ; flowers 

 the end <of August ; is a fino/acquisition to our hardy Lilies. 



