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PUte 60] LILIUM FBITILLABIA 179
LILIUM, Linn.
The Lily,
1. Flowers dull yellowish or greenish outside,
white within speckled with long
purple streaks
L. polyphyHum.
2. Flowers pale rose or rose-purple ... L. Thomsonianum.
Fig. 2. Lilium polyphyllum, D. Don. Many-leafed Lily.
Collett, frontispiece.
Bulb narrow, of few, long, narrow, fleshy scales. Stem 34 ft.
high, slender. Leaves 3-5 by y-4 in., stalkless, linear or inversely
lance-shaped, many-nerved, lower sometimes whorled. Flowers
fragrant, solitary or whorled or racemed, pendulous stalks
;
li-4 in. long. Bracts leaf-like, often whorled. Perianth
2J-3 in. long, dull yellowish or greenish outside, white within
speckled with long purple streaks, broadly funnel-shaped.
Segments blunt, bent back when fully expanded, f in. broad.
Stamens protruding; anthers i in. long. Capsule 1-1 J in.
long.
Flowers.
June to August.
Locality. Sonamarg; near Shirazia Bagh, on jungly slope
near top of hill ;
Gulmarg, woods, about 8,000 ft., common
;
Baltal.
Distribution. W. temperate Himalaya, 6,000-12,000 ft.,
from Kashmir to Kumaon, Afghanistan.
Lilium Thomsonianum, Eoyle.
Bulb 2-2^ in. Stem very stout, 2-4 ft. high. Leaves
2-8 by i-J in., thin, stalkless, alternate, narrowed to a very
fine point. Bracts leaf-like, lance-shaped. Eacemes denseflowered,
1-2 ft. long. Flower-stalks i-i in. long. Perianth
2-2i in. long, sweet-scented, pale rose or rose-purple ; segments
narrowly spoon-shaped, bent back, tips rounded. Filaments
long. Style much longer than the ovary, tip bent upwards ;
stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 1 in. long.
Flowers. April.
Locality. At elevations between 5,000-7,000 ft.
Distribution.
From Kashmir to Kumaon, Afghanistan.
FRITILLARIA, Linn.
(From the Latin fritillus, a dice-box, alluding to the 6 glands
within the perianth, or also to the dice -like spots on the perianth of
some species.)
1. Flowers yellow-green, tessellated with dull
purple
F. Eoylei.
2. Flowers yellow or brick-red, not tessellate F. imperialis.