NHD53/46

Orange Lily

Lilium Tourn. Ex L.; Liliaceae family

Original inscriptions: 朱頂蘭 (front lower right in ink); Tcheu-ting-lau (reverse lower right in pencil)

Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Lilium sp. (front lower right in pencil)

Flowering twig of an orange-white lily, with long, blade-like green leaves, arranged alternate along the twig. The first two bottom leaves are half yellow. Two terminal big, funnel-shape flowers and one small pointy bud. The left flower shows external white petals, red edges, and red anthers peaking through the petals; three petals are slightly curling outward. The right flower is depicted from the front, showing six bright orange- reddish petals, elongated and pointy, six stamens with white filaments and reddish elongated anthers, and one pistil with the stigma constituted of three pink-pale yellow circles. Lower left: dissected view of six red-orange petals, the first three curling; pedicel with pistil with two stamens, further four stamens depicted separately on the right.