as represented in the beautiful subject of the present plate, en¬ 
ables us to correct the synonymy of the Himalayan Tricyrtis 
pilosa of Wallich, figured in Tab. 4955 of this Magazine, in so 
far as that plant was erroneously (though doubtfully) referred 
to this by its discoverer. Dissimilar as the original T. hirta is 
from the T. pilosa , it is not easy to seize on any further diffe¬ 
rential characters than are to be found in its more hairy habit, 
larger, longer style, pilose ovary, and more numerous and far 
more beautiful flowers ; and the doubtful reference by Wallich, 
nearly forty years ago, of his Himalayan plant to that of Thun- 
berg (of which he had seen no specimens, and of which neither 
flowers nor fruit w 7 ere described), is a remarkable instance of 
the sagacity of that very distinguished botanist. 
“ The credit of the rediscovery of this plant is due to Mr. 
Fortune, who sent it from Japan to Mr. Standish, in whose 
nursery at Bagshot it flowered last November. It grows four 
to five feet high, and the copious blossoms which appear on the 
axils of all the upper leaves, and which are of a pearly white 
dotted with clear purple, render it as singular-looking as it is 
beautiful. 
“ Descr. A slender, hairy, branching, herbaceous plant, three 
to five feet high, with terete, leafy stems and branches. Leaves 
alternate, two to three inches long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
sessile and amplexicaul at the base, acuminate and recurved 
at the apex, deep green, quite entire, with diverging veins. 
Flowers in short, axillary, two- to five-flowered, erect racemes. 
Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Peduncles slender, terete, 
pilose. Flowers two inches broad, of a pearly white, with small 
purple blotches, and here and there suffused with pink. Pe¬ 
rianth leaflets erect, recurved above the middle, with a large, 
obscurely-lobed, tumid gibbosity at the base. Filaments re¬ 
curved at the apex, spotted with purple, adnate to the back of 
the extrorse anther. Ovary narrow-linear, trigonous, pilose, 
with a long style, and three diverging bifid stigmas.” 
