504 Litiacce—Liliuin. 
distant upwards, linear, flat, indistinctly 10- to 12-ribbed ; 
lower ones about a foot long, diminishing in size upwards, and 
passing gradually into bracts. Flowers racemose, 12 to 18 or 
more in well-grown plants, rosy-lilac, from 3 to 4 inches broad 
when fully expanded, sub-erect. Pedicels sub-erect or spread- 
ing, less than one inch long. Perianth-segments oblanceolate, 
somewhat obtuse. Filaments equalling the perianth ; anthers 
purple. A native of the Western Himalayas, and a very pretty 
species, but rather tender with us. The variety bearing the 
latter name has larger flowers. 
L. Hookeri, the only other species of this section, is not in 
cultivation. It isa native of the Sikkim Himalayas. 
2. L. gigdntewm.—This is remarkable for its tall stout stem 
from 5 to 10 feet high and large cordate leaves, the lower (or all) 
petiolate. Flowers sub-erect, 6 to 12 in each raceme, ye llowish- 
white spotted with purple in the throat, odoriferous. Perianth 
funnel-shaped. Segments 5 to 6 inches long, naked at the 
base. Filaments shorter than the perianth, pollen yellow. A 
very showy species from the Himalayas, requiring slight pro- 
tection in, severe weather. 
Myr. Baker unites this as a 
sub-species with L. corli- 
et folium, a Japanese plant 
ay of somewhat smaller dimen- 
\ sions. 
Sj 3. L. lonyiflorum, inclu- 
ding LZ. Wellichidnaum, DL. 
Neilyhérvicum, and Ly esi- 
mium, ete—Stem 1 to + 
teet high or more, clothed 
with numerous scattered 
linear acute glabrous leaves, 
and surmounted by 1 to 4 
pure white flowers 6 to 9 
inches long, and suddenly 
narrowed into a long tube. 
Stamens shorter than the 
Fig, 246. tiem eer, var. eximium. perianth 3 pollen yellow. 
Varieties bearing the above 
names are sufficiently distinct from a hoxiealtural point of 
view. The variety crinium, syn. Tukesina (fig. 246), grows 
from 2 to 4 feet, with usually from 2 to 4 flowers from 8 to 
