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LILIUM SPECIOSUM. 
(showy crimson japan lily.) 
class, order. 
HEXANDRIA. . MONOGYNIA, 
NATURAL ORDER. 
LILIACE^. 
Generic Character. — Corolla campanulate, six-parted, with a longitudinally honey-line, reflexed. 
Capsules^ valves connected by a mesh of hairs. 
Specific Character. — Bulb scaly. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, from three to four inches long, vernose, 
somewhat reflexed. Flowers terminal, varying in number. Perianth divided into six segments, 
of a beautiful rose-colour, richly spotted with purplish-red. Segments much reflexed. Ovarium 
obi ong, three-celled. 
A MOST magnificent species of lily, " not only handsome, as Dr. Lindley 
observes in the Botanical Register, p. 2000, beyond all we before knew in gardens 
(among lilies), on account of the clear, deep, rose-colour of its flowers, which seem 
all rugged with rubies and garnets, and sparkling with crystal points, but it has 
the sweet fragrance of a Petunia. The flowers are produced in August and 
September. Native of Japan, from whence it was introduced by Dr. Yon Siebold, 
about the year 1833. It is a greenhouse species, and succeeds best if planted in 
the border in a rich compost. We saw a plant of it at Messrs. Loddiges', in 
September, with five flowers all expanded at once ; the number of flowers was 
obviously occasioned by its being planted in the open border of the greenhouse ; 
for the plant at Messrs. Rollison's, from which our drawing was taken, and which 
was kept in a pot, only produced one flower ; however, it might doubtless flower 
well in a pot if it had an " abundance of pot room" which seems to be the most 
important feature in the cultivation of it. Increased by ofiBets. 
The drawing was made in August 1837, from a plant then in flower in Messrs. 
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