Plate 121. 
THE GOLD-BANDED LILY OE JAPAN. 
Lilium auratum . * 
We are indebted to the courtesy of our kind friend Mr. 
Standish, of the Loyal Nurseries, Bagshot and Ascot, for the 
opportunity of figuring the very beautiful variety of this newly 
introduced and exquisite flower. It was exhibited by him at 
the Crystal Palace autumn show, where it received as much ad¬ 
miration as did those exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s exhibition. It seems to have been dis¬ 
covered by Mr. Robert Fortune and Mr. J. G. Veitch about the 
same time, and we are sure our readers will be interested in 
the following note, most kindly furnished to us by the former 
gentleman:— 
“ I/ilium auratum is one of the wild dowers of Japan. I met 
with it for the first time in the summer of 1861, in my ram¬ 
bles on the hillsides near Kanagawm. I observed it pushing 
up amongst the long grass and brushwood, and watched its pro¬ 
gress with much interest, as it was evidently something new 7 . 
It began to open its flow 7 ers on the last days of June, arid con¬ 
tinued in bloom all July and part of August; that is, during 
the hottest time of the year. The flower-stems were usually 
from three to four feet in height, and three, four, and sometimes 
five large flowers were produced upon a single stem. The fra¬ 
grance emitted by these flowers scented the air for a consider¬ 
able distance on all sides of them. There are two or three 
rather distinct varieties, differing from each other in the colour 
of the spots on the flower. 
“ The roots of this Lily are invariably much deeper in the 
# When exhibited at the Crystal Palace, it was suggested by an eminent 
botanist that the variety should be called roseum punctatum. We have, how¬ 
ever, left it with its simple name, auratum. 
