1874.] 
LILIUM KEAMEEIANUM. 
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priateness for conservatory and greenhouse embellishment when cultivated in 
pots, forming as it does a very distinct and most effective object in association 
with other plants. If properly fashioned when young, and freely cut back 
annually, the plants form very compact and shapely bushes, from 3 ft. to 4 ft. 
in height, without the slightest tendency to ramble ; and such plants are often 
embellished with from twenty to thirty panicles of its large rich orange-red 
tube-shaped flowers, producing a grand and imposing effect. So freely does this 
Tecoma produce its blooms, that I have seen hundreds of specimens in 5-in. and 
6-in. pots flowering freely, in the nurseries of Mr. Smith, of Worcester, who 
grows the plant extensively. Under glass cultivation it should receive an 
abundance of light and air, so as to promote a sturdy habit of growth. There 
are two varieties of this species,— T. {Bignonia) grandifiora^ with reddish-saffron 
flowers ; and T. {B.) grandijlora ruhra^ which is darker in colour, as the name 
implies.— Geo. Westland, Witley Court. [Mr. Waterer, of Knaphill, also grows 
a variety of remarkable beauty under the name of Tecoma (Bignonia) grandijlora 
prcecox .— Ed.] 
LILIUM KRAMERIANUM. 
WITH AN ILLUSTEATION. 
owe our thanks to Mr. G. F. Wilson for the opportunity of figuring 
this, which is the finest form of the new Japanese Lily, Lilium Kra- 
merianum. Three varieties of it have been flowered and exhibited in 
this country, but not distinguished by name. The finest is that which 
we now figure, and which has large flowers, with broad bluntish perianth segments, 
of a deep flesh-colour or pale rosy blush. Another, also blush, but much paler in 
colour, has narrower perianth segments, wavy at the edge and very much drawn 
out at the points; this has been figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 6058), 
but is there too highly coloured. The third is almost white, and is intermediate 
in form between the other two. 
This Lily, when examined by Mr. Baker, was regarded by him as a hybrid 
between L. japonicum and L. speciosum. We must confess that we do not see the 
slightest aflSnity with the latter species, but think it far more likely to have 
originated between L. auratum and L. japonicum^ if it be not a mere selection 
from L. auratum itself. It is not quite clear whether L. Kramerianum comes 
to us from wild habitats, or from the Japanese gardens. All we have been 
able to learn on this point is contained in the following memorandum 
from Messrs. Teutschel and Co., the agents in this country of Mr. Kramer. They 
write :—“ Mr. Kramer sends it to us as a new lily, obtained a long distance from 
Yokohama, in the interior of Japan. He speaks of a man as ‘ collecting ’ it, 
and sends it in three varieties—white, pink, and a larger form of the same 
colour; but adds, ‘ there are many startling varieties.^ He speaks of it as a 
form of L. auratum. For our own parts, we cannot see that speciosum has any¬ 
thing to do with its parentage; it seems a seedling form of auratum. It is a 
