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Heloniopsis orientalis

日本各地の山地で，少し多湿なところにはえる常緑の多年草．和名は花を猩々（しょうじょう，想像上の酒好きな猿）の赤い顔，葉の重なりを袴にみたてたものという説と，葉が秋に猩々の袴の様に真っ赤になるからだという説がある．子供のころ仙台地方の山地で自生をよく見たが，30年程前には新宿の路上で「ゆきわりそう」の名前で紫や白の花の咲いたのを売っていた．
写真の個体は３年前，庭で日本原産の野草を育てようと，近くのホームセンターで買ったが，次の年は咲かなかった．今年ようやく咲いたが貧弱．来年に期待しよう．接地した葉の先端から，新たな芽（不定芽（無性芽））が出てきているので，これも「ハカラメ」といえる．

おまけは e-Bay の Auction で買った”Curtis Botanical Magazine” 1888 の石版手彩色図譜．

TAB．6986．
HELONIOPSIS JAPONICA．
Native of Japan and Corea.

This interesting plant has long been known to botanists，but the genus is now brought for the first time into cultivation. It is spread widely in the mountains of Japan，its altitudinal range，according to Mr．Maries，being from two thousand to seven thousand feet above sea-level
It has lately been discovered in Corea by Mr. W. R. Carles，and it is very likely that the Formosan H.umbellata, Baker，will prove to be only a geographical variety of the same species.
It has the general habit of a large-flowered Scilla，to which genus it was originally referred by Thunberg，but the rootstock is not a bulb，the leaves are persistent and not fleshy in texture，and the small seeds are conspicuously tailed at each end，like those of a Narthecium or Pitcairnia．
It appears to be perfectly hardy in England．It was brought to home by Mr．Maries，and first flowered by Messrs. Veitch in the spring of 1881．0ur drawing was made from a plant presented by Messrs. Veitch that flowered in the herbaceous pits at Kew in April, 1887.