give the name of L, speciosum Kcempferi, because it was the 

 indefatigable botanist Kaempfer who first made it known to 

 Europeans. For the second, with pure white flowers, I pre- 

 serve the Japanese name Tametomo, which it bears in its own 

 country, in consequence of 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 among the most magnificent of their genus ; I should 

 even say that L. speciosum Ksempferi stood at the head of 

 them all, if a variety of Lilium longiflorum, which I have 

 seen in Japan, with flowers often 8 or 10 inches long, did 

 not dispute the palm, on account of its sweetness. 



" L. speciosum Kcempferi is cultivated all over Japan as 

 an ornamental plant. Its true country is probably China, or 

 rather Korai, if we may judge from its name Korai-juri, or 

 Korai-lily. It flowers in May and June ; in the Botanic 

 Garden at Ghent, it did not flower in 1832 (the first time in 

 Europe) till August. Like other kinds of Lily it is freely 

 propagated by scales ; it does not however bear bulbs in the 

 axils of the leaves. It succeeds very well in a cold green- 

 house, and even in the open air, if protected." 



*' 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 also in the north of 

 Japan ; but it has, perhaps, been confounded with L. japoni- 

 cum, which is often wild in those countries." — Flora Japonicat 

 \. 33. 



I presume the Lilies called by the Belgians L. Lehrous- 

 sardi and X. punctatum, are both varieties of X. speciosum. 



In cultivation this is a handsome frame or half-hardy 

 bulb, growing about three feet high, and flowering from the 

 beginning of July to the end of September, according to the 

 manner in which it is treated. The bulbs should be fresh 

 potted or planted in a pit, well protected from wet, late in 

 the autumn, or very early in the spring, in a mixture of 

 sandy-peat, loam, and a small portion of well-rotted dung or 

 leaf mould. 



