PLATE DLXXXVL 



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SP£ 



UM. 



Showy Lily. 



CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



HEX AND RI A MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. 



Pointal 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petaIa, campanulata : nectarium li- 

 nea longitudinalis : capsulse valvulis pilo 



cancellato connexis. 





Blossom 6-leaved, bell-shaped. Nectary a lon- 

 gitudinal line. Valves of the seed-pod con- 

 nected with a lattice-work of hairs. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Lilium foliis sparsis, ovato-oblongis : floribus 



cernuis mox revolutis : caule raraoso. 

 Lilium speciosum. Willd. Sp. PI. 



Lily with scattered oval-oblong leaves : the 

 flowers nodding, soon rolled back, and the 

 stem branching. 





REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . Seed-bud and pointal. 



1H ■ can but seldom have the pleasure of recording so valuable an acquisition to our collections as this 

 truly magn.ficent species introduced from China by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks about the year 

 180/, and a figure of it also pubhshed by him in 1 7 Q,, being plate 4 7 of the Icones Select,, from draw 



incrs marie in Janan hv k»mnf^ ~~A j. .. , . ^ vtw, uum uidw 



deposited in the British Museum 



The woolliness and 



, i, 4 t A . . * v ^tiusu iriuueum. ine woolliness and 



bulbs on the stem ,„ our speamen, and the want of constriction a, ,he base of the lea™ « " 



such ever exists in nature., HitT^r onn B ;«u«M„ (. .. , e leavts » ( Jt a »> 



resemblance, ana a consideration of U» ma „ y varialions ZSSZZgZZ geTa^ 



ject, induce us to regard it as a variety from th* «.m* ~>~^ _,. J . . fcenus ^ SUD 



The stem rises to between three 



i r c t • i • i , > x »cBiciu rises to oetween ree 



and four feet ,n he,gb< and sometimes even higher , and produces from three to nine or more flowers 

 accordtng o «. strength and s.tuation. The bulb which i, produce, from the base of every 1 af form 

 a future plant, and thu, tounrivalled beauty adds abundance, fts time of flowering en ce 7*Z 

 lue be,ng to Angus,, when al, o.her lilies Itave deserted the parterre. M, W.nian, ', Le man 

 at Turnham Green, favoured us with the specimen. "imams, nurser>raan 



