1899] CONSPECTUS OF THE GENUS LILIUM 241 
Bulb thick, ovoid, 5—7.5°™ long, with thick, acute, much 
imbricated scales : stem 12-18 high, stiff, horizontal at the base: 
leaves 50-60, scattered or crowded, sessile, ascending, the lower 
15-23™ long, 3-nerved, the upper shorter, wider, and often 
s-nerved, and often bearing bulbils in the axils: flowers usually 
solitary, or sometimes two or three, horizontal or nearly so, 
white, tinged with green outside, fragrant; perianth segments 
oblanceolate-unguiculate, 18-23 long: stamens shorter a8 
the perianth ; anthers yellow: style and ovary together equaling 
the stamens, 
Central Himalayas. 
3. L. sutpHuREUm Baker, Bot. Mag. ¢. 7257. 1892. 
L. Wallichianum superbum Baker, Gard. Chron. III. 10: 480. 1891. 
L. Wallichi superbum hort. in Baker, loc. cit. 
L. ochroleucum The Garden (non Wallich) 40:3 38. 1891. 
Bulb large, globose: stem erect, 18-20™ high: leaves numer- 
lS, Scattered, spreading, linear, the lower 7.5-10™ long, the 
"pper growing gradually shorter, and many of them producing 
bulbils in their axils - flowers usually two or three, pendant i 
long peduncles, fragrant, sulphur yellow, tinged outside with 
claret-red ; perianth funnel-shaped, 18-20 long, the oblanceo- 
'te-oblong segments permanently connivent in the lower gta 
thirds, fecurving in the upper third; outer segments but little 
S25" broad inner nearly 5°™ broad: stamens 35™ shorter 
than the perianth segments; anthers over 25™ long, with brown- 
rd pollen : Style much overtopping the anthers, curved at the 
‘Pex; stigma large, 
Burmah, 
4. L. NEILGHERRENSE Wight, Ic: 4. 2037-2. 1850. 
; tubiflorum Wight, Ic. ¢. 2077-4. 1856. 
ip Wallichianum Wight (non Schultes), Ic. 2. 2035. 1856. 
L. Neilgherricum hort. in Lem. Ilus. Hort. 10: £. 353+ 1863. 
* Metzii Steud. in Duch. Soc. Hort. Par. Jour. I. 4:556- 1879 
Bulb . olate 
Slobose, > gem ; i ith thick lance 
Sales. 5-7.5°™ in. diameter, wit 
Sven 3-6 high, stiff, creeping at the base: leaves 30-40, 
