Refugium Botanicum.| [April, 1870. 
TAB. 213. 
Natural Order Lini1AcEe&. 
Tribe HEMEROCALLIDES. 
Genus Hremerocanuis, Linn. 
H. Dumorttert (Morren, Belg. Hort. ii. p. 95, t. 48). Foliis viridibus 
sesquipedalibus, scapis teretibus foliis paullulum brevioribus, floribus 
paucis (2—4) breviter pedicellatis saturate flavis, tubo perbrevi vel 
subnullo, segmentis interioribus margine anguste membranaceis 
venulis leviter anastomosantibus, staminibus et stylo segmentis 
subduplo brevioribus. — Hl. graminea, Schlecht. non Andrews. H. 
rutilans and Sieboldu, Hort. 
A native of Japan and Western Siberia. 
Leaves about half a dozen to a scape, fifteen to eighteen inches 
long, half an inch broad in the lower part, firm in texture, 
narrowed gradually to a point, bright green above, paler, not at 
all glaucous beneath. Scape erect, terete, green, rather shorter 
than the leaves. Flowers two to four, on pedicels three to six 
lines long, subtended by lanceolate bracts which equal or slightly 
exceed them, slightly odorous. Perianth two inches long, a more 
orange-yellow than in H. flava, the tube very short or sometimes 
none, the outer divisions firm in texture, oblong-spathulate, 
three-eighths of an inch broad, the inner ones a little wider, 
membranous and undulated at the edge, and the marginal veins 
anastomosing a little. Stamens and style scarcely more than half 
as long as the segments. 
Closely allied to H. minor, Mill. Dict. No. 2 (Hl. graminea, 
Andrews, Bot. Rep. t. 244), but a stronger plant, with leaves 
twice as broad, shorter pedicels and a shorter tube. In the form 
drawn the flower was split down to the very base, and the pistil 
monstrous. 
Tab. 213.— 1, single stamen; 2, monstrous pistil of twelve carpels : 
both magnified.— J. G. B. 
I have cultivated this little-known, hardy, showy species for 
some time in the open borders, where it will thrive in any good 
soil, flowering freely and for a long period.—W. W. S. 
