[Plate G2.] 



THE LODDIGES LILY. 



(lilium loddigesianum.) 



A Handsome Hardy Bulbous Plant, from the Caucasus, belonging to the Liliaceous Order. 



Specific Character. 



THE LODDIGES LILY. — Leaves close, alternate, spreading, here and there whorled, ovate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 

 on the under side, especially at the edge and veins, slightly downy, the uppermost gradually smaller. Raceme 

 erect, few-flowered. Flowers drooping, two or three times as long as their stalk. Divisions of the flower 

 rolled back. 



L. Loddigesianum : Romer and Schultes, Systema, 7, 416. Morren, Annates de Gand, vol. ii., p. 363, t. 85. 



THIS fine hardy bulbous plant was received by the Horticultural Society on April 3, 

 1842, from Mr. de Hartwiss, of the Imperial Gardens, Nikita, in the Crimea, under 

 the name of Lilium monad elphum. A few months later it came from Dr. Fischer, of St. 

 Petersburg, under the same name. Yet it is in no degree monad elphous ; on the contrary 

 its stamens are distinct to the very base. 



Lilium monadelphum was so called by Bieberstein in his account of the Caucasian flora, 

 and described as a plant the size of Lilium album, with flowers of the sime size and form, 

 but yellow, and with the filaments united sometimes into a tube as long as the ovary, 

 sometimes into a mere ring. Romer and Schultes add that cultivated plants raised from 

 Crimean seeds grew from two to four feet high, with campanulate flowers, tubular at the 

 base, and spreading at the point, but in no degree rolled bach ; the petals were quite yellow, 

 with no spots, and the stamens were joined into a tube rather longer than the ovary. It 

 would therefore seem clear that our plant cannot be L. monadelphum. 



