By Mr. Samuel Brookes. 



553 



teemed for the beauty of its flowers, as well as for some 

 medicinal qualities in its roots. 



Among the Chinese drawings in the collection of the East 

 India Company, is a tolerable representation of the Lilium 

 Japonicum,* under the Chinese appellation of Pa-kup ; 

 when this was sent to Europe the note which accompanied 

 it described the plant as differing but little from Lilium Can- 

 didum, and it consequently attracted less notice. In 1804, 

 living bulbs, imported from China, in the Henry Addington 

 Indiaman, were sent to Kew Gardens, where one blossomed 

 in July 1813, and a drawing of it was made by Mri Syden- 

 ham Edwards ; this drawing was engraved for the Botani- 

 cal Magazine,-f and published, with a description of the 

 plant, by Mr. Gawler, (now Mr. Bellenden Ker) in 

 the same year. All the plants derived from this importation 

 subsequently perished, but the large supplies obtained by 

 us in 1819» as well as a successful importation by the Horti- 

 cultural Society in the same year, have now removed all 

 apprehension of a similar calamity, more especially as they 

 have been extensively distributed. 



Messrs. Loddiges have recently published a figure of the 

 Lilium Japonicum in their Botanical Cabinet, plate 438. 



I remain, dear Sir, 



Your very obliged Servant, 



Samuel Brookes. 



Ball's Pond, August 2, IS21. 



* Drawing, No. 94. 



f Plate, 1591. 



