it was no doubt first long previously described from Eastern 
Asiatic specimens by Fischer as /. /evigata. It is a native 
of East Siberia from the Baikal and Dahuria to Kamtschatka, 
the Amur district, and Korea, and it thence extends to the 
northern parts of Japan. 
_ Mr. E. G. Henderson’s variety, which I hope to figure 
soon, 1s a most remarkable and beautiful plant; it is a 
monstrous state, with six or more equal or unequal spreading 
perianth segments; for a description of which I must refer 
to Dr. Masters’s article in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, referred 
to above. 
_ The specimen here figured was flowered in May last by 
G. Maw, F.LS., in his rich garden at Benthall Hall, 
Shropshire, fromm roots received from Max Leichtlin of 
Baden Baden; it has also flowered at Kew for several years 
past. 
Descr. Stem two to three feet high, slender, obscurely 
angled. eaves as long, one-half to two-thirds of an inch 
broad, narrow and slender, acuminate. Scape 1-3-flowered. 
Spathes two to four inches long, narrowly lanceolate, her- 
baceous, the outer shorter. lowers three to five inches in 
diameter, varying from pale to deep red-purple; shortly pe- 
dicelled ; pedicel shorter than the subterete ovary. Perianth- 
tube about three-quarters of an inch long; outer segments 
shortly clawed, broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, not 
crested, with a bright 3-cuspidate orange spot at the base 
of the limb; inner segments one to one and a half inches 
long, of the same purple colour, erect, conniving, sub-acute, 
oblong-lanceolate. — Stigmas spreading, linear-oblong, with 
bifid incurved lobes.—/. D. H. 
