ie SS 
_eties of L. speciosum. 
( 3785 ) 
Lixuium speciosum; albiflorum. Crimson 
JAPAN Lity; white-flowered var. 
KKK KEKE KK EEE EERE EE 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Littacex. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium campanulatum, 6-sepalum, regulare, sulcis 
nectariferis in sepalis. Capsula 6-sulca, valvis reticulo 
fibroso connexis. Sema compressa. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Litium speciosum ; caule erecto ramoso glabro, foliis spar- 
sis ovato-oblongis nervosis petiolatis, ramis unifloris, 
flore cernuo reflexo, corollis revolutis intus papilloso- 
barbatis. ‘ Morren Notice sur un Lis du Japon, p. 2.” 
(«.) Kempferi; flore pulcherrime roseo. 
Latium speciosum. Thunb. in Linn. Trans. v. 2. p. 332. 
« Siebold Fl. Jap. cum Ic.” Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 2000. 
Kasbiako vulgo Konokko Juri. Kempf. Amen. 871. 
Banks, Ic. Kempf. t. 47. 
(8.) Tametomo ; flore albo, papillis roseis. (Ts. nostr. 
3785.) 
Not having had the opportunity of seeing the Flora 
Japonica of Dr. SreBop, I gladly take advantage of an 
extract from that work relating to this plant, given by Pro- 
fessor LinpLey under Liusum Thunbergianum, 10 Bot. Reg. 
1839, t. 38. “ Among more than twenty kinds of Lily 
brought by me,” says Dr. SreBop, * from Japan to Europe, 
and deposited in the Botanic Garden of Ghent, are two vari- 
To that with flowers rose-coloured, 
blotched with purple, I give the name of L. speciosum 
Kempfert, 
