Tab. 6332. 
LILIUM NEILGHERRENSE. 
Native of the Mountains of Peninsular India. 
Nat. Ord. Liliaceas. — Tribe Tulipe^e. 
Genus Lilium, Linn. ( Balter in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 225). 
Lilium neilgherrense ; bulbomagno globoso rliizomatoso squamis ovato-lanceolatis 
albis, caulibus strictis validis erectis 1-3-floris 1-2-pedalibus, foliis 30-40 lan- 
ceolatis sessilibus 5-nervatis firmis viridibus utrinque glabris, perianthii ip fun - 
dibularis albi suaveolentis 6-10-pollaris tubo segmentis falcatis oblongis 
sesquilongioribus, staminibus parallelis perianthio distincte brevioribus, 
antheris magnis polline luteo, pistillo staminibus sequilongo, 
L. neilgherrense, Wight, leones , tab. 2031-2032 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. 
xiv. p. 230 ; Floral Magazine, new series, tab. 237. 
L. tubiflorum, Wight, leones, tab. 2033-2034; Duehartre Obs. sur le Genre Lis, 
p. 71. 
L. Wallichianum, Wight, leones, tab. 2035 ; non Schultes fil. 
L. Metzii, Steudel in Hohenack. Plant Ind. Or. Exsi e. No, 954. 
L. neilgherricum, Hort. Veitch . ; Lemaire III. Hort. \ 1. x. tab. 353 ; Planch, in 
Flore des Sevres, tab. 2266-2267. 
This is the only Lily of the mountains of Southern India. 
It inhabits the Neilgherries and Pulnies, at an elevation of 
about eight thousand feet above sea-level. It is closely allied 
to L . Wallichianum of the Himalayas, L. philippinense of the 
Philippine islands, and L. longiflorum, japonicum, and Brownii 
of China and Japan. It was introduced by Mr. Thomas 
Lobb in 1862, but failed to become established, and has 
lately been imported again in considerable quantity by 
Messrs. Yeitch and others. The present plate was taken 
from a specimen that flowered with Messrs. Yeitch in 1876. 
I have no hesitation in regarding as slight forms of one 
species the three plants figured by Hr. Wight, and cannot 
follow the view lately expressed by Dr. Planchon in the 6 Flore 
DECEMBER 1ST, 1877. 
