Lilies: Vossner's time to cry?, 1 by Leftwood

Leftwood wrote:
In fact I meant to put that in my last post: Nepalense has such great flower variation, why couldn't there be variation in bulb color too.

I am becoming delightfully apprehensive with my suspect nepalense. The buds are not at all elongating like it should. They are staying quite stubby. Maybe almost as wonderful, I am thinking it is, or is a close relative of, Nomocharis. I had ordered also from Chen Yi, Lilium henrici var. maculatum. The likely scenario is that the labeling got mixed up: the bulb labeled nepalense is henrici. However, the bulb labeled henrici is definitely not nepalense. The only lily I have from Chen Yi that has foliage even remotely like nepalense is this, but the flower is certainly not nepalense-like: