bafes of the leaves; /eaves about 8, petioled, palmate; pedicles 
round-ancipital, naked, very obfcurely denticulate, /Jamina 
5—7-parted, /egments fubplicate, ciliate-fpinulous along the 
edges and keel of the plaits, indented-erofe at the end; /padix 
fparfe, paniculate-branched, 4—5 inches long, /pikelets thickfet 
with feflile yellowifh flowers ; calyx of one piece, urceolate, 
flefhy, green, fmooth, fcarcely a line in length, trifid, /egments 
roundifh-pointed, upright, with a membranous border ; corolla 
yellow, monopetalous, coriaceo-flefhy, obovate-oblong, tude 
clavate, triquetral, twice the length of the calyx, /imé trifid, 
three times fhorter than the tube, /egments ovate acute fub- 
connivent ; filaments 6, filiform-triquetral, fhorter than the 
corolla, adnate to the tube, alternately fomewhat thicker and 
more detached. Native of China and Japan. Introduced into 
our gardens by Mr. Gorpown, of Mile-End, in 1774. Blooms 
in Auguft, if kept in the hot-houfe. a 
The drawing of the inflorefcence of our fpecimen was taken 
in rather too early a ftage of its growth, fo that the corolla 
appears fomewhat more contraéted than in its adult ftate, and 
of a green inftead of the yellow colour it then acquires: (a.) 18 
added as a variety, on the bare authority of TuunserG: we 
do not believe this has yet found its way to England; the Ja- 
panefe are faid to make brooms or brufhes from the dark. By 
bark, we fhould fufpeé, is meant the bafes of the leaves 
which furround the ftem. 
In the Hortus Kewenfis? a figure from L’Herirser’s 
“ Stirpes Nove” is quoted; but as that part of his work ftill 
remains unpublifhed, we have omitted the fynonym. We 
had no opportunity of feeing the plant ourfelves, but have 
borrowed our defcription chiefly from the very valuable MS. 
notes of Dr. Soranper, preferved in the library of Sir 
Josern Banks, We fufpeét that the hermaphrodite plant is 
ftill a ftranger to the European colleétions, G, 
