intended for it in the approaching edition of Hortus Kewenfis. 

 Stem from two to five feet high; flowers 1 — 14, large, of a 

 bright red-lead colour with black-crimfon fomewhat raifed 

 fpots. Hardy enough to thrive in the open ground, and will 

 foon become common, being rapidly propagated by the bulbs 

 produced in the axils of the leaves, as well as by thofe that 

 furround the moiher-bulb. Blooms freely about July and 

 Auguft. Native of China and Japan. Introduced into Kew 

 Gardens from the former country, by Mr. W. Ker, in 1804. 

 K^mpfer fays, that the bulbs are eaten by the Japanefe. 

 Loureiro mentions its being cultivated at Canton, and makes 

 it a variety of pomponium. 



K^empfer's defcription alone might have fatisfied us that 

 this was the plant he had in view ; but upon referring to his 

 manufcript in the Britifh Mufeum, we found an excellent 

 drawing done with a pen and ink by himfelf, accompanying 

 the defcription. Willdenow has erroneoufly added this 

 fynonym to Thun berg's Iancifolium. 



Our drawing was made from a plant in Mr. Salisbury's 

 Botanic Garden, Sloane-Square. G» 



