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June 15, 1912.] 



Til E GARD ENERS CHR Nl CL E. 



385 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY 



PLANTS. 



LILIUM BARGKXTUE." 



LlLIUM Sar« :j ' ■ though obviously allied to 



several other species, is very distinct from all. 

 It is nearest, perhaps, t a new Lily which is 



being distributed under the name of L. myrio- 

 phyllum. This latter is dwarfer In stature, has 

 •its leaves more densely crowded, one nerved, 

 scabrid on midrib below, no bulbils, flowers 

 canary-yellow within the funnel, and of a dif- 

 ferent fragrance. Side by side the plants can 



never be confused, so utterly different are their 



There is some doubt as to 



general appea 



this Lily being the true L. myriophyllum of 



Franchet, since he describes the flowers of his 



species as being erect and not spreading, as ob- 

 tains in the Lily now being distributed under 

 this name. I have several other new Lilies 

 fr« u China to deal with later, and hope to 

 settle the point by comparison with Franchet 's 

 type. 



I. ilium Sargent i« is also allied to L. sul- 

 phureum, Baker. It differs in the colour of its 

 flowers and in shape, nervation, and density of 

 its foliage. Unfortunate] . neither in the 

 original description of this Burmese Lily (Gar- 

 deners 1 Ohron f t, October 24, 1891, p. 480), nor 

 in the Botanical M jazine, where it is figured 

 (tab. 7257), is any reference made to the colour 

 of the bulb, nature of stann-n filaments, or nec- 

 tariferous furrow — points of cardinal impor- 

 tance. So far as my menu y serves, however, 

 the stamen-filaments in L. sulphureum are 

 glabrous, or nearly so, and the bulb reddish : of 

 the other point I have no knowledge. Geo- 

 graphically, the species are widely removed, 

 and it is exceedingly probable that the relation 

 ship is more apparent than real, though the 

 -author of an article on M Lilies" in the Garden, 

 vol. lxix., p. 234, with coloured plate, inclines 

 to believe them identical. 



The relationship \ th L. Brownii is discussed 

 at length below. 



•Lilium (1 i irion; Sargbhtiji n. sr. E. H. Wilson.— 



Ab aliis tpeciebus Aitmibus bene di&lincia bulbo majorc 

 floboso vcl ovoideo, a< uto, purpurea. Caulis dense 

 toliosus, tolas oblongo-lanceolatis vcl ovato-IanoeoJatis, 

 manifests 3-7 nerviis bulbilos in aaillis gerentibus. 

 Pcrianthiurn c us purpurcum , nectaria glabra; fcla 

 menta pilosa. vn. I Browni var. leucanthum Hort 

 'n Garden, vol. 69, p. 4. w 3 th rol plate Non. Baker 

 L. leucanthum Hort. Veitch. L. leucanthemum Hort 

 Farquhar < atal. t 1911. Nomrn nudum. 



Lilium Sakgentia (n»w %f ) -Httb 1-3 m. or more 



ingh. Bulb dark red- purple, large, 15-45 m usually 



1S-J0 cm.) In umfercncCi globose or ovoid, acutr at 



ummit ; icalet very numerous, thick, ovate, acuminate, 



firmly Imbricated. Stem stout, trrrtr with slight rid^ci 

 e*t< <ii;,^ li>wnward from l^af Uascs, glabrous, pile 

 green, spotted and splashed with purple more espccial'v 



in uppei halt, drn«r|y >wded with lea\c ^ng 



bulbillae in ihelr axils. Leave t scattered, spreading. 

 subse le, apices rr ved, oblong -la tit rotate, 5 jj cm 

 ong, 1 . cm. broad, uiually becoming shorter, ovst • 

 lai- )late and sessile in up| part ul stem, acuminate, 

 glabrous, covered with pellucid Kepidote glands more 



e *pecially on lowrr surface and margins, sinning green 

 above, paler below with pu:j<. spot at point of insertion, 

 promi| lfnt iy 3-7 nerved, midrib raised on both surfaces. 

 rlowert 1 -10 (usually yd), lragrant, waxy white within, 

 red-purple outside, usually arising from common level 

 (umbellate), occasionally floral axis el- gates forming 

 short raceme (ra<<-in.>se-uinbel), subtended by whorl ol 

 sessile leaf -like bracts; pedicels stout, j.5-8 cm. long, 

 ascending, spreading, usually brae lc ate ; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 cm. long. Perianth funnel- 

 shaped, 13-20 cm. long, 10-15 cm. broad at mouth, 

 •egments recurved at apex , outer segments ligulate- 

 oblong, acute, half width of inn« suffused with red- 

 purple without, white -within irur segments obovate- 

 oblong, 3.5.5 cm wide, obtuse, rounded, narrowed to 

 caniculaw law towards base, midrib >rry prominent 

 and purple without; apices of inner and outer ^c^ments 

 usually with tiny tuft of white or yellowish hairs; 

 nectariferous furrow glabrous, yellowish-green glandu- 

 nterous down one-third length of segment. Stamen* 

 *f ? n , K t iu]ic or *h*d« longer; filaments flattened, 

 «ian f | u ],»rly pubescent in low half, glabrous, subulate 

 in upper half; anthers red-brown, oblong i.< a cm. 



J 0«g, pollen rhocnln 



, fellow. Pitiit ex f t 



starneii, , n length r 2.5 cm CttTved upwards in tkp 



a!ahr™,r a ? nd n-anfled, 3545 cm. 1 i, 



2?*E2Z\ inll \|»« Rrren, angles obtusely uncled; Ityit 

 HuV.r 1 if"* 11 * ovary, t» ngular. v<\ lb-purple imi 

 ^lately above ovary, purple in Upper half. glabrOttl saVfl 



it ■ «,' ~ " n "\ ( ""> u * '< H»«»4tilar ha.rs near bate; 



ravs * n fr fOtlOui, purplish, with threw pro* it 



centre gfabSS! W ' ng *' apt * truncalcd wilh rei * 



The history of tin's new Lily is involved, and, 

 for the sake of clearness, necessitates a rather 

 lengthy story. It was first discovered by me 

 When collecting in Western China for Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Sons, in 1903. Bulbs were sent 

 to the Coombe Wood Nursery, and when they 

 flowered were considered to be Lilium Brownii 

 var. leucanthum. Under the abbreviated name of 

 L. leucanthum, it was awarded a First-class Cer- 

 tificate by the R.H.S. on August 29, 1905, and, 

 bearing this same name, was subsequently dis- 

 tributed by Messrs. Veitch. On my recent jour- 

 neys in China on behalf of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum, I collected a large consignment of this and 

 other Lilies for Farquhar and Co. This firm in 



outside, with no trace of the red-purple colour- 

 ing characteristic of the typical L. Brownii. It 

 was on the absence of this red-purple colouring 

 that he based his new variety. An excellent 

 figure of L. Brownii var. leucanthum is given in 



the Botanical Magazine, tab. 7722. 



In an interesting article on " Lilies," by 



IF. IV., in the Garden, 1895, vol. xlvii., p. 97, 



good descriptions of L. Brownii var. leucanthum 

 and L. Brownii var. chloraster are given, but, 

 unfortunately, the coloured plate (plate 1,000) 

 purporting to be "leucanthum" is really 

 "chloraster." 



With full and clear descriptions of such a 

 recent introduction as the true "leucanthum," 



August last exhibited this Lily as L. " leucan- it seems almost impossible for such a confusion 



Fig. 183. — group of lilies exhibited by Messrs, r. Wallace and co 



AT THE INTERNATIONAL SHOW. 



themum," and was awarded a Silver Medal by 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The 

 gardening Press, both in England and America, 

 have, during the past five years, made many 



complimentary references to this Lily 



At this late date, it is impossible to determine 

 how the plant came to be called L. Brownii var. 

 leii( nnthum, sinee the only points common to the 

 two are the funnel-shaped | rianth and pubes- 



nt stamen fil I. 



The true L. Brownii var. leuennthum was fin 



lietcril 1 by Mr. J. G. Baker in the Gardiner*' perianth red-purple without, 



to have arisen. It is difficult to make good and 

 complete herbarium specimens of Lilies ; the 

 shape and colour of the bulbs, as every cultiva- 

 tor and student of the genus knows, are most 

 important factors in determining the species, 

 yet these are seldom preserved in herbaria. But 

 this difficulty did not arise in the species here 

 discussed, since the descriptions were (or could 

 have been) drawn up from living plants. 



Su rfieially, our new Lily resembles the 

 typical L. Brownii, inasmuch as both have the 



anil pub cent 



1894 



stamen filaments ; but here the resemblance 



which flowere<l it Kew, "th* bulb of which was ends. The bulb of L. nti is cdway* red- 

 Bent to Kew by A. Henry in 1889, ahmg with purple and usually acute : the bulb of L. Brownii 

 Lilium Hei M Mr. Baker describes the bulb is white and usually flattened on top. (In speak- 

 as white, and the flowers as white and green ing of the colour of the bulb in L. Brownii as 



