lays he found it near Nagafaki as well as in feveral other parts of 

 the country; if he had not quoted K^empfer and fent afpecimen, 

 which is preferved in the Bankfian Herbarium, it would have 

 required no fmall fhare of fagacity to have difcovered what 

 plant he meant. 



Introduced into this country by Mr. Gr^fer in 1783. 

 Ufually cultivated in the dry ftove ; when it flowers about 

 January ; but is fufficiently hardy to endure our ordinary 

 winters in the open air, and flowers from March to June ; 

 we have feen it in feveral colle&ions ; our drawing was made 

 at that of Mr. Malcolm's, Kenfington ; propagated by off- 

 fets. We loft the opportunity of examining the flowers, fo 

 that we have trufted to a dried fpecimen and the drawing for 

 their defcription. 



The above efTential character we have added as we found 

 it in the books ; but think that it is no ways adapted to the 

 prefent fpecies ,- nor indeed to Orontium aquaticum, as far 

 as we can make out from the dried plant. G. 



