NOTES ON CHINESE LILIES. 



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This Lily grows in exposed situations and not in shelter, thus di tiering 

 markedly from Lilium BrowniL In the wild plants, the flowers are 

 orange with black marks, which are elevated, in the interior of the 

 perianth near the base. Other orange projections occur, which 1 likened 

 to little horns. In the wild state I never saw phmts of any great size, 

 never higher than 41 feet, and generally 1 to 4 or ^-flowered. (Fig. 180.) 



Inland from the Yangtse gorges, north and south, the country is an 

 mnuense mountain mass, cut up by deep ravines, and rising in chains to 

 from 6,000 to 10,000 feet above sea-level. In those mountains, at 5,000 

 to 7,000 feet, on the clifts, there occurs a small Lily, which is represented 

 at Kew by my numbers 5,917 and G,7H6. 1 found these specimens 



