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referred to was about 3 ft. high, of a purplish hue below, and marked with black 
lines. The densely-set leaves were all whorled, from nine to fourteen, sessile, 
oblong-acute, dark green, slightly recurved at the tip, and they were arranged in 
two or three series forming broken whorls. The flowers, four in number, were 
placed in the axils of the upper bracts ; they were larger than in L. Humbolcltii , 
of a .rich tawny orange, spotted nearly up to the tip with large spots (one-eiglith 
of an inch across), the larger and upper ones being crimson, with a black dot in 
the centre of each. The perianth segments were broadly-oblong, terminating in a 
shortish and somewhat acute point. The anthers were of a brownish orange 
colour. Like the species, this blossomed early in July. 
18. Lilium pardalinum ( Proc. Calif. Acad., ii. 12, with fig.).—This 
fine showy Lily, named L. pardalinum by Dr. Kellogg, bears considerable resem¬ 
blance in its general aspect to L. Humboldtii , but differs in its pallid 
stems, less distinctly whorled leaves, and also in the deeper colour of the 
flowers. Its erect stoutish stems grow from 5 ft. to 6 ft. in height, and 
are everywhere of a pale green colour. The leaves are alternate below, 
and whorled above, or in some of the forms—e.y., that which is cultivated under 
the name of L. Robinsonianum —everywhere alternate. In the usual forms, the 
lower leaves are spathulate or oblong-obovate, narrowed to a bluntish point, and 
3 in. to 4 in. long. In some of the plants the leaves are more lance-shaped, and from 
4 in. to 5 in. long. The whorls are from eight to ten-leaVed in the cultivated 
plants, and here and there half-whorls of three or four leaves occur. The stem 
appears to terminate in a tuft of leaves more or less separated, and from the 
axils of these leaves, on long pedicels, the flowers, three to five in number, pro¬ 
ceed, sometimes all standing nearly on the same level in a subumbellate manner, 
sometimes (when the leaves are more scattered) issuing from the axils of the upper 
leaves and forming an irregular corymb. The flowers have the perianth seg¬ 
ments, lance-shaped, bluntish, and strongly revolute, the lower half of a deep 
orange colour, densely spotted with blood-crimson, and slightly lamellate-papil¬ 
lose, and the upper half unspotted and suffused with a sanguineous red; the 
upper spots, which occur on the lower borders of the portion coloured red, appear 
as if set on a small circle of yellow. None of this ocellate spotting occurs in L. 
Humboldtii; the stamens and style are much the same as in the species just named, 
the anthers being four or five lines long, and the pollen of a brownish orange. 
This, as well as the two varieties named below, are natives of California. 
L. pardalinum Bobinsonianum. —This is simply a larger-growing form of 
L. pardalinum , from which it varies very slightly. In all the plants we have seen 
cultivated under this name, the pale green stems and alternate-lanceolate leaves 
have been well-marked features, while in the colour of the flowers the tint of 
sanguineous red pervading the upper half of the perianth segment is deeper, and 
the ocellate spots (dark spots on yellow ground within the red portions) are more 
distinct. 
L. pardalinum CALIFORnicum.— This Lily was originally collected by Hartwe 
