{lipato; racemo multiiloro thyrfoidco-effufo foliofo-brac- 

 teato; bracteis convoluto-lanceolalis, inferioribus geminis 

 extima praegrandiore nunc tubum aequante; pedicello 

 brevi flexili; corolla fubnutante regulari, cylindraceo- 

 infundibuliformi; tubo rotundato-hexagono, (computata 

 fauce) quam limbus fubduplo longiore; limbo campanulas 

 recurvo; laciniis ovali-lanceolatis; ilaminibus corolla? 

 ifometris pro longitudine germinis tubo adnatis; antheris 

 fagittato-linearibus; ftyloquam gerrnen ter-quater longiore; 

 capfula prifmatico-columnari fubnutante, valvis planis; 

 feminibus furfum imbricatis alatis,.ellipticis. G. 



HEMEROCALLIS japoniea. Sjf. Vcg. Mitrr. ed. 14. 339. 

 Thunb.jap, 1425 (ubi defer ipt 10 certe comprehendit ethane, 

 licet alias ab autore ad folam lanceolatam rcftrifta fit.) 

 Id. in Linn. Trans. 2. 335. Lit. a Redout e. 1. tab. 3. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2, 305. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 198; (excl. 

 var. p.) 



II. alba. Dot. Repof. tab. 194. 



ALETRIS >/>o«*Vrt. Houtt. Linn, pfl.fyjl. it. 486. /. 84. /. 2; 

 ad fpecimenjiccatntn japonicum delineata. 



JOKSAN vulgo Gibboofi. Gladiolus plantaginis folio ; 

 fcapo fefquifpithamali recto, extremitate florida floribus 

 (10 — 12) liliaceis, vernis, in purpureum albicantibus; ex 

 angufto tubulo ampullaceis, 3-uncialibus, in 6 denies 

 laciniatis, ftaminibus totidem ftyloque mediorepandis. 

 Kcempf. am. ex. 863. ejufd. fig. MS. in Muf Brit. Banks 

 ie. Kcempf. tab. 1 1 . 



Desc. Leave s feveral : lamina 2 — 6 inches broad. Pedicles 

 white, feveral times fliorter than the flower; inner of the lower 

 bracles feveral times fmaller than the outer. Corolla clear white, 

 very fragrant, nearly four inches long. Anthers yellow. 

 Hardy; blooms much later in the year than carulea y and not 

 fo freely: native of China and Japan. Introduced in 1790* 

 by Mr. G. Hibbert. Our drawing was made from a plant 

 that flowered in the open ground at Mr. Vere's. G. 



NOTE. 



No. 894. Hemerocallis cerulea. Under this head the 

 following fynonyms may be added to thofe already cited: 

 («.) flore albo? Thutib. 



Hemerocallis lancifolia. Thimbu in Linn. Tranf. 2. 335* 

 Willd. Sp.Pl. 2. 198. 



H. japoniea. 



