with soft hairs towards the upper part. Leaves alternate and sparse 
at the lower part, verticillate in whorls of three or four near the top, 
sessile, broad at the base, ovate lanceolate, smooth, strong nerved, about 
an inch and half broad. FLowers terminal, erect, of a rich fawn or 
brick colour. Perricon of six spreading lanceolate segments, smooth, 
limb spotted towards the base, and nearly tubular, having a double 
nerve running to the tip. STAMENS six, shorter than the segments of 
the perigon; filaments of unequal length. ANTHERS two-celled, ver- 
satile; pollen dark brown. Ovary remarkably club-shaped, green; 
style one, springing from the centre of the ovary, brick-coloured, 
thickened towards the summit; stigma three-lobed. 
Poputar aND GEoGrapPHicaL Notice. One of the many magni- 
ficent Lilies which Kempfer stated as ornamenting Japan, whence 
Dr. Siebold contrived to bring it in a living state. Thunberg was the 
first to describe it, and he bestowed several names upon it, referring it 
to Lilium bulbiferum, to which it could not belong, having no bulbs i in 
the axils of the leaves; then to Lilium Philadelphicum. 
It does not possess the agreeable odour of the white lilies, indeed it 
is a circumstance worthy of notice, that orange or brown flowers 
rarely have a pleasant aroma, as may be remarked in the common 
orange lily, and yet more in the stapelias. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. Introduced from 
Belgium to England. Our drawing was made from a plant at the 
Messrs. Rollisson’s, at Tooting. It is kept in a frame, but may pos- 
sibly prove hardy, flowering from July to September. “After flow- 
ering, the bulbs should be fresh potted or planted in a pit, well 
protected from wet, late in autumn or very early in the spring, in a 
mixture of sandy peat, loam, and a small portion of rotted manure 
or leaf mould. The soil in the pots or pit in which the fresh bulbs 
are planted should be kept dry until they begin to grow, when water 
should be given, but rather sparingly at first. The plant may be in- 
creased freely from every scale of which the old bulb is composed. 
These, if separated, potted in sand, and placed in a gentle heat, will 
soon make plants, but they will not flower for two or three years.” 
(Linp.ey.) 
IVATION OF THE NaME 
Litium, from the Celtic 1, white. Titvxeenerxuie, to signify that this was 
the plant of Thunberg. 
Synon 
Linium TounBercianum. Romer et Schultes, Systema eo VL. 415. 
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