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L iliacea L ilium. 



distant upwards, linear, flat, indistinctly 10- to 1 2-ribbed ; 

 lower ones about a foot long, diminishing in size upwards, and 

 passing gradually into bracts. Flowers racemose, 12 to 18 or 

 more in well-grown plants, rosy-lilac, from 3 to 4 inches broad 

 when fully expanded, sub-erect. Pedicels sub-erect or spread- 

 ing, less than one inch long. Perianth-segments oblanceolate, 

 somewhat obtuse. Filaments equalling the perianth ; anthers 

 purple. A native of the Western Himalayas, and a very pretty 

 species, but rather tender with us. The variety bearing the 

 latter name has larger flowers. 



L. Hookeri, the only other species of this section, is not in 

 cultivation. It is a native of the Sikkim Himalayas. 



2. L. gigdnteum. This is remarkable for its tall stout stem 

 from 5 to 10 feet high and large cordate leaves, the lower (or all) 

 petiolate. Flowers sub-erect, 6 to 12 in each raceme, yellowish- 

 white spotted with purple in the throat, odoriferous. Perianth 

 funnel-shaped. Segments 5 to 6 inches long, naked at the 

 base. Filaments shorter than the perianth, pollen yellow. A. 

 very showy species from the Himalayas, requiring slight pro- 

 tection in severe weather. 

 Mr. Baker unites this as a 

 sub-species with L. cordi- 

 folium, a Japanese plant 

 of somewhat smaller dimen- 

 sions. 



3. L. longiflorum, inclu- 

 ding L. Wallichianum, L. 

 Neilyherrieum, and L. exl- 

 mium, etc. Stem 1 to 4 

 feet high or more, clothed 

 with numerous scattered 

 linear acute glabrous leaves, 

 and surmounted by 1 to 4 

 pure white flowers 6 to 9 

 inches long, and suddenly 

 narrowed into a long tube. 

 Stamens shorter than the 

 perianth; pollen yellow. 

 Varieties bearing the above 

 names are sufficiently distinct from a horticultural point of 

 view. The variety eximium, syn. Takesima (fig. 246), grows 

 from 2 to 4 feet, with usually from 2 to 4 flowers from 8 to 



Fig. 246. Lilium longiflorum, var. eximium. 

 (J nat. size.) 



