Kempferi, because it was the indefatigable Botanist Kamp- 
FER who first made it known to Kuropeans. For the 
second, with pure white flowers, 1 preserve the Japanese 
name Tametomo, which it bears in its own country, in 
consequence of its having been first brought by that hero 
from the Loo Choo islands, as the Japanese assert. The 
beauty and fragrance of the flowers of these two kinds rank 
them amongst the most magnificent of their Genus.”— 
“The variety Tametomo, although it has pleased some 
Botanists to make a peculiar species of it, under the name 
of L. eximium, differs, nevertheless, only in its flowers being 
quite white, and the leaves rather more distinctly stalked. 
According to some of the Japanese Botanists, it is found 
wild, not only in the Loo Choo islands, but in the North of 
Japan ; but it has, perhaps, been confounded with L. Japo- 
micum, which is often wild in those countries.” 
Our variety is undoubtedly the Tametomo of the Japan- 
ese. I was much struck with its beauty and fragrance in 
the dining room of W. Wextts, Esq., of Redleaf, Kent, 
where it was standing at the window. At my request, Mr. 
Wetts most obligingly allowed the flowering portion to 
be taken and sent to Glasgow to be figured. It is consid- 
ered a half-hardy bulb, and when more plentiful, it may be 
found advisable to try it in the open air. It is treated 
by Mr. Wetts’s gardener in the same manner as the larger 
Cape bulbs. 
