Plate 140 . 
THUNBEBG’S TRIG YETIS. 
The labours of those who visit distant countries in search of 
new plants are viewed in a different light by the botanist and 
the horticulturist. The former looks to them as likely to bring 
some new contributions to the cause of that science he loves so 
well,—some new species, or rediscovery of some lost one, or 
some new and abnormal form, which may perhaps bear on a 
long-cherished theory; while the latter, caring generally but 
little for these things, is influenced by the beauty or orna¬ 
mental character of the plants he sees, and (shall we say it ?) 
by their marketable value at home. It sometimes occurs that 
both are interested in the same production; a plant may he in¬ 
teresting in a scientific point of view, and also valuable for 
decorative purposes; one such instance is that of the Japanese 
plant we now figure, through the kindness of our friend Mr. 
Standish, of the Boval Nurseries, Ascot and Bagshot. 
T/mnberg’s Tricyrtis was exhibited by Mr. Standish, to whom 
it had been sent home by Mr. E. Fortune, from Japan, under 
the name simply of Tricyrtis (sp.), but has since, as will be seen 
from the extract we append from the 4 Botanical Magazine,’ 
been referred by Sir W. J. Hooker to Tricyrtis Mrta. It is, as 
will be at once seen, a very peculiar-looking flower, remind¬ 
ing one rather of an orchidaceous plant, the curiously-spotted 
flowers being produced in considerable quantities, and render¬ 
ing it, especially if it he, as supposed by Mr. Standish, hardy, 
a most interesting addition to the herbaceous border, of which 
there are symptoms that we shall see a much larger number 
than has latterly been the case. 
“ The rediscovery,” says Sir W. J. Hooker, in the ‘Botani¬ 
cal Magazine,’ u of the Japanese Umdaria Mrta of Thunberg, 
