Plate 99. 
LILIUM HUMBOLDTII, var. PUNCTATUM. 
The increased attention which has been given of late to the beautiful family of Lilies 
has induced us to point out another of the more recent additions to those already cultivated 
in our gardens. 
America seems now, and especially the more western portion of North America, to be 
affording us some very beautiful species. The grand L. WasMngtoniamm comes from the 
western slopes of the Californian Sierra Nevada ; we have also L. Calif ornicum, a very 
beautiful species ; and L. Humboldtii, also a native of the far West ; and also L. pardalinum, 
bearing from one to three dozen flowers on the same stem. And as other collectors are now 
searching these almost unexplored regions we may hope for still further additions. 
We figured in our last volume a fine variety of this grand Lily, named maculatum ; and 
as illustrating the varieties which are to be found in nature, we now give one very different 
indeed in character ; in the former case the surface of the flower was spotted with large 
spots of a purplish colour, while in the present instance the spots are much smaller and far 
more numerous. It was flowered in the establishment of Mr. W. Bull, who is well 
known for the zeal he has shown in the introduction of many of these beautiful plants. As 
these Lilies are quite hardy they will form interesting additions to those herbaceous borders 
which are now, we are glad to say, becoming more and more in vogue ; and though we 
cannot entirely do away with bedding-out plants, yet we believe a considerable modification 
of the present system will be adopted. 
Plate 100. 
ARALIA GUILFOYLEI. 
Among the ornamental plants which are suitable to our larger stoves the Aralias hold 
a conspicuous place ; while one of them at least, Aralia papyrifera, is a plant of economic 
interest, for from it is prepared that interesting product of the Chinese, rice paper. This 
species, which was originally treated as a stove plant, has proved to be nearly if not quite 
hardy ; and when grown in the open air, even though cut down by frost, sends up a number 
of suckers. Others of the family are equally hardy, while many, as in the case of that we 
now figure, require the treatment of a stove. 
Aralia Guilfoylei has been introduced by Mr. "VV. Bull, and from a plant in his collection 
the drawing was made by our artist ; he describes it as “ a delicate and ornamental plant, of 
a shrubby habit, with an erect stem, copiously dotted with lenticular markings, and having 
pinnate leaves on longish smooth terete petioles, and made up, in the case of young plants, 
of from three to seven stalked oblong elliptic bluntish leaflets, which are sometimes 
obscurely lobed, and irregularly spinose serrate ; these leaflets vary in size, from two to three 
inches long, and are neatly and evenly margined with creamy white, the surface being, in 
addition, occasionally splashed with grey.” 
In the present day, when ornamental foliaged plants are so much used for decoration in 
rooms, &c., the Aralias are most useful, and we are inclined to think that this recent 
addition to the family will be found admirably adapted, from its graceful habit and distinct 
markings, for all such purposes, and from the substance of its foliage it will bear the 
confinement of a room better than many plants. 
