LILIUM TESTACEUM. 
(Pale-red- flowered Lily. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Orrler. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
LILIACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Inflorescence mostly peduncu- 
late. Calyx wanting. Corolla inferior, parted into six 
petals, turbinately campanulate, erect or drooping: 
lobes lanceolate, spreading or revolute, with a longitu- 
dinal furrow down the centre ; naked or ciliated. Style 
club-shaped, with a capitate stigma. Capsule cartila- 
ginous, turbinate or oblong, trigonal, three-celled, three- 
valved, valves having a partition in the middle. Seeds 
numerous, smooth. 
Specific Character. — Plant a bulbous perennial. 
Leaves scattered, lanceolate. Flowers drooping, termi- 
nal. Peduncles rigid, short Corolla with the inner 
petals slightly warty ; outer ones smooth, much longer 
than the stamens. 
Japan, which has already furnished our gardens most richly with showy flowers, 
through the medium of Dr. Siebold, is said to be the native country of this fine 
Lily. In point of ornamental character, it is quite worthy of being associated witli 
the other noble kinds from the same region ; and, indeed, comes rather near L. 
Thunbergianum or aurantiacum. Nothing, however, is positively known regarding 
its introduction, though it is believed to be one of the many plants collected by Dr. 
Siebold. 
It appears first to have bloomed with Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, last season. 
It was flowered, this year, and exhibited at one of the Horticultural Society's 
summer shows, by Mr. Mountjoy, nurseryman, of Ealing, Middlesex ; and from a 
very admirable specimen which blossomed at that gentleman's nursery we had our 
drawing made in June last. 
When well cultivated, it grows three feet in height, and upwards, being of a 
vigorous nature, and bearing as many as a dozen of its large flowers on the same 
plant. The blossoms are of a pale orange-red hue, with darker warty dots on the 
inner petals. They are produced in a drooping manner, and the petals are some- 
what curled back. 
It is really astonishing what a difference variety of treatment makes in this, as 
well as other Lilies. Properly managed, they are among the noblest flowers we 
