Volume 10 — PLATE DCLXIII. LILIUM CONCOLOR. Self-coloured Lily.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-partita, campanulata. Nectarium linea longitudinalis. Capsulæ valvæ pilis cancellatis connexæ.

Blossom 6-parted, bell-shaped. Nectary a longitudinal line. Valves of the seed-pod connected with a lattice-work of hair.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Lilium foliis sparsis, subverticillatis, lanceolatis: floribus erectis, fasciculis terminalibus 3-6-floris: petalis recurvis, patentibus: stylo brevissimo.

Lily with scattered leaves, nearly in whorls, and lance-shaped: flowers upright, in terminal bunches of 3-6 flowers: petals recurved and spreading. Shaft very short.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The Lilium concolor was first raised in the conservatory of the late Sir Charles Greville at Paddington in 1806, and still continues to be one of the rarest of this showy genus. Our figure was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, late in the autumn of 1813. Of what country it is a native is not positively known, but it is supposed to be of Chinese origin.