present year, is the second that lias been flowered in England, 

 the first being with Mr. Noble at Bagshot many years ago. 

 Of our continental correspondents. Max Leichtlin, Esq., of 

 Baden-Baden, from whom this plant was received, and E. H. 

 Krelage and Son, of Haarlem, have both cultivated it success- 

 fully. It is said to be widely dispersed through the Japanese 

 islands, growing in shady mountain woods, but not to be 

 anywhere plentiful, and it has been found also in the Kurile 

 group. I cannot look upon L. Glekmi, F. Schmidt, as more 

 than a slight variety of cordt'folium, differing from the type 

 by its more numerous smaller flowers. We have specimens 

 of it in the Kew herbarium from the neighbourhood of 

 Hakodadi, gathered by Dr. Albrecht and the late Mr. C. 

 Wilford. 



Desce. Bulb ovoid, two to three inches in diameter ; scales 

 few, thick, whitish, ovate, adpressed. Stem stiffly erect, 

 three or four feet high, an inch thick at the base, naked to 

 a height of about a foot, the lower leaves crowded and very 

 large, the upper ones laxcr, diminishing gradually in size to 

 the bottom of the inflorescence. Leaves all furnished with a 

 broad flat petiole ; blade sometimes nearly a foot long, pro- 

 minently cordate, roundish or broad ovate, the reining as 

 thoroughly reticulated as in an ordinary broad-leaved 

 Exogen. Raceme in the typical form as figured about hal F 

 a foot long, four- to six-flowered ; pedicels very short and 

 stout ; bracts large, lanceolate, falling before the flowers 

 fully expand. Perianth permanently funnel-shaped, five or 

 six inches long, milk-white on the outside, tinged with green 

 towards the base, the oblanceolate obtuse segments spreading 

 falcately in the expanded flower in the upper half, narrowed 

 gradually from three-quarters of the way up to the base ; 

 the three inner ones purple on the face in the lower half| 

 entirely destitute of any papillae or distinct bordered groove. 

 Stamens parallel, slightly decimate, a little shorter than the 

 perianth. Ovary clavate, above an inch long ; style parallel 

 with the stamens, and just overtopping them ; stigma capi- 

 tate, obtusely three-lobed. Capsule oblong, two inches long, 

 umbilicate at the apex; seeds packed very tightly in the 

 cells ; edge of the three valves very fibrillose.— J. G. Baker. 



