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PI. 88 & 59] HEMEBOCALLIS IXIOLIBION 169
HEMEROCALLIS, Linn.
(From the Greek hemera, day, and callos, beauty, alluding to the
flower that lasts only one day.)
Fig. 4.
Hemerocallis fulva, Linn.
Eootstock very short, with fleshy root-fibres. Leaves
1-2 ft. by 1-lJ in., erect-spreading, narrowly linear, manynerved,
somewhat bluish green beneath. Flowering stem
2-3 ft. high, round, naked, bearing a 6-12-flowered panicle.
Flower-stalks short. Bracts small, membranous, soon falling
off. Flower large, almost erect, 1-2 in. diameter. Perianth
funnel-shaped, 6-partite ; segments united at the base into a
tube, which is yellow-red outer segments orange-yellow,
;
oblong, sharp-pointed, inner ones much larger and broader,
margins wavy. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the
tube, protruding filaments filiform. Ovary 3-celled ; ; style
filiform. Capsule 3-sided, leathery. Seeds angled, black,
shining.
Flowers .
July
.
Locality. Gulmarg, clearing in forest on hill-top, 8,500 ft.,
local.
Distribution. Himalaya, Khasia Hills, cultivated throughout
India, N. Asia to Japan, Caucasus, S. Europe.
AMARYLLIDACEAE.
Plate 59
Amaryllis was the name of a country-woman in Virgil's Eclogues.)
IXIOLIBION, Fisch.
(Ixiolirion means a lily resembling Ixia, a genus of
Iridaceae.)
Fig. 1. Ixiolirion montanum, Herb. Mountain Ixiolirion.
Bulb egg-shaped, 1 in. thick, with a neck 2-3 in. long below
the basal tuft of leaves. Stem about 1-li ft. long. Leaves
about 4, persistent, and a few smaller ones above. Flowers
on long, unequal stalks, about 4, and often 1 or 2 flowers
below. Perianth bright lilac, 1^ in. or less long, regular,
6-lobed, without tube above the ovary ; segments inversely
lance-shaped, sharp-pointed. Stamens shorter than the
segments, attached to their claws. Ovary club-shaped.
Capsule 3-celled.
Locality. Srinagar, fields, about 5,000 ft., common, grown
in many places introduced.
;
Distribution.
Syria, Persia to Siberia.