1899] CONSPECTUS OF THE GENUS LILIUM 253 
scarcely expanded at the tip; the nectar furrow very wide and 
very smooth, even to the margin: stamens a little shorter than 
the perianth, with short anthers and yellow pollen: style three 
times longer than the ovary. 
Yun-nan, China. M. Franchet says of this: “ Magnificent species, recall- 
ing L. Wallichianum Schultes by its numerous linear leaves; but easily dis- 
tinguished from it by the characteristics of its rhizome, its erect flowers, 
and the enlarged perianth.” 
25. L. Caressa Walt. Fl. Carol. 123. 1788. 
L. Carolinianum Catesby (non Michx.) Car. 2:4. 58. 1733. 
L. spectabile Salisb. (non Link.) Stirp. Rar. 4. 5. 1791. 
Bulb like that of Z. Philadelphicum: stem 3-6™ high, slender, 
erect: leaves 20-30, scattered, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
7.5" long : flowers usually solitary, erect, wide funnel-shaped, 
10™ broad, bright orange-red marked with scattered purplish 
dots perianth segments oblong-lanceolate with long attenuate 
lips, a grooved claw, and revolute margins: style slender, twice 
% long as the Ovary. 
Seay Carolina to Florida and west to Kentucky. A very pretty plant, 
“ss not succeed in cultivation, at least not in the northern sfates. 
26. L. BakERIANUM Collet & Hemsley, Linn. Soc. Jour. 27: 
138. 180, j 
cae 9-12" high, two-flowered : leaves alternate, thickish, 
i ow linear, nerves obsolete: flowers white, erect, long pedun- 
lhe Campanulate, about 10™ long and broad; segments of 
‘ : sranth unequal, contiguous, slightly recurved, base broad, 
: ‘ed, inner Surface naked: stamens less than half the length 
the perianth. 
Shan hj ; ous 
hills, India, at 1200" altitude. Not yet known in cultivation. 
2 
7 L. tickisum Andr. Bot. Rep. 9: errata. 1809. 
; tp Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 207. 1790. 
L. sinene, on ot (non Thunb). Bot. Rep. ¢. 586. 1797-1804 
ree se hort. in Steud. Nom. 2: 44. 1840. [Ed. 2. 
ortuni Lindl, Gard. Chron. 1862 : 212. 
