58 The Vegetation of Japan. 
Kaempfer reached Japan and stayed three years. He was the first 
to illustrate Ginkgo in his book published in 1712. After some 
ninety years, Thunberg who was a pupil of Linnaeus came over to 
Japan, studied the plants and published his Flora Japonica in 1784. 
He also published an account of his journeys and illustrations of 
some Japanese plants. I am not quite certain if these people 
brought back seeds or plants from Japan, but there is no doubt 
about Von Siebold who came over some forty years later, and took 
a few living animals and plants away with him. 
Robert Fortune, who paid repeated visits to China during 
eighteen years from 1843, sailed to Japan in 1860 and again in 
1861. 1 He saw a number of interesting plants there and introduced 
several garden plants. About the same time John Gould Veitch 
went over to Japan for the purpose of obtaining garden plants, and 
introduced a great many plants into English gardens in 1861. 
Amongst others the following few are perhaps worthy of note :— 
Adiantum Veitchii (=A. monochlamys.), Ampelopsis Veitcliii 
[=Partlienocissus tricuspidata), Abies Veitchii, A. Alcockiana, 
Cryptomeria japonica var. elegans, Lilium auratuw, Picea ajanensis 
var. microcarpa, Polypodium Veitchii, Primula cortusoides var. elegans 
(=P. Sieboldii), Selaginella involvens var. Veitchii. 
Messrs. Standish and Noble of Bagshot Nursery were the first 
to cultivate the new Chinese plants discovered by Fortune. They 
also received the following Japanese plants obtained by that 
distinguished collector:— Aucuba japonica, Deutzia crenata, Tricyrtis 
hirta, etc. 
J. G. Veitch was followed by Maries who also collected many 
dried specimens which are now preserved at Kew, and 1 have had 
an opportunity of examining and naming some of them. 
These people saw in Japan very many interesting and curious 
plants and certainly thought all of them were indigenous to Japan, 
and a number of the new species were named “japonica.” In fact 
some of these are not true natives of Japan, but are merely culti¬ 
vated in the gardens. For instance, Cydonia japonica, generally 
known under the name of “japonica” in this country, is of Chinese 
origin. Eriobotrya japonica which is so much grown on the 
northern coasts of the Mediterraneans, is probably not a native of 
Japan. Mahonia japonica is another plant, which was described 
from a specimen grown in a Japanese garden, was introduced into 
’ The narratives of his journey were published under the title of “ Notes 
on the Botany of Japan” in Gurd. Chron., 1861, pp. 145, 312, 385, 456, 576, 737. 
