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four to ten flowered. Involucral bracts erect, appressed, thick, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, produced downwards into an oblong-obtuse auricle. 

 Pedicels equalling or exceeding the bracts. Calyx one-third of an 

 inch long, tube cylindric, cleft to the middle into five subulate erect 

 lobes. Corolla tube exceeding the calyx ; limb flat, one-half to two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter, clear bright rose-carmine; segments 

 cuneate-obcordate, lobes rounded, with a deep acute sinus ; throat 

 a little swollen, smooth. — Botanical Magazine, 6437. 



Echeandia tekntelora. Ortega {alias Conan- 

 tliera Echeandia, Persoon; alias Anthericum reflexum, 

 Cavanillesj alias Phalangium reflexum, Poiret). A 

 half-hardy Mexican Lilywort, with fugitive yellow 



flowers. 



Blossoms in August. 



(Fig. 78.; 



It seems worth while to reproduce this plant, which, although long 

 known in gardens, is rare. The filaments are club-shaped bodies 

 covered near the upper end with rings of blunt projections hooked 

 back, which may be regarded as an incomplete state of the hairs 

 on such plants as Bulbine, no doubt nearly related to Echeandia. 

 Examined with the microscope, these projections are found to be caused 

 by the free ends of long loose club-shaped cells hooked back and placed 

 in a whorled manner around a central cord of spiral vessels. They 

 are filled with a yellow grumous fluid. 



Lilitjm Wallichianum. Schicltes. A very fine 

 hardy bulbous plant, with white flowers, from the N. 

 of India. Introduced by Major Madden. Blossoms in 

 August. (Fig. 79.) 



Asia has furnished us with four distinct kinds of tube-flowered 

 white lilies ; namely, candidum, the common white Japonicum. longi- 

 fiorum with its dwarf 1-flowered variety, and Wallickianum. The 

 first has a short tube and flowers in racemes. The others have them 

 varying in number from one to three, with a very long tube. Of 

 these Japonicum has broad leaves, and leathery flowers stained outside 

 with olive brown; the two others have the flowers perfectly white, 

 with a much thinner texture. Between themselves L. longiflorum and 

 Wallichianum differ in the latter having very long narrow leaves, of 

 which the uppermost are extended into a lineir point, and flowers as 

 much as eight inches long ; while longiflorum has leaves twice as broad, 

 and flowers generally much smaller. These are, we believe, the only 

 real distinctions between the two, and seem hardly sufficient to justify 

 the creation of two species ; the distinctions are, however, permanent, 

 and affect considerably the general appearance of the plants. 



"This is a very distinct and noble species, with a tall and slender 

 stem, two-thirds of which are thickly furnished with long and linear 

 leaves. The flowers are white, fragrant, extremely large, with a very 

 long and nairow tube, which is gradually widening into an ample 

 spreading limb ; there are generally two or three at the apex of the 

 stem ; sometimes only one. In size they exceed those of Lilium 

 giganteum. The claws of the three exterior sepals are closely united 

 to those within, in consequence of their sharp margins being confined 

 within the deep furrow, which is formed on each side of the dorsal rib 

 of the latter. The base of the stem I have repeatedly found horizontal, 

 creeping and scaly like that of a fern, without any remainder of a 

 bulb, but marked with a numbsr of vestiges of old stems. This lily 

 is also found towards Sirinuggur ; I ] have received plenty of fine 

 specimens collected by Mr. Kobert Blinkworth." 



