with shorter petioles and racemes with more numerous 

 and more closely arranged flowers. The most striking 

 difference, however, is that typical F. lanci folia flowers 

 in July. The first plant of var. tardiflora to reach Kew 

 was received in 1895 from the late Mr. M. Leichtlin, of 

 Baden-Baden. Whether it be one of the forms of 

 F. lancifolia for whose selection horticulture has to thank 

 Japanese gardeners is not clear ; though several garden 

 forms are depicted in the fhonzo Zoufou, vol. xxiii. 

 tt. 16, 17, none of these are so densely floriferous as our 

 plant. The material for our figure was a plant in full 

 flower out of doors at Kew on 16th October, 1913. 



Description. — Herb. Leaves radical, broadly lanceo- 

 late, acute, glabrous, dull green, rather firm, 5 in. long, 

 1| in. wide ; lateral nerves about four on each side the 

 midrib, ascending at an acute angle ; petiole 4 in. long, 

 blotched with purple ; sheath over \ in. wide, ovate- 

 lanceolate, white, blotched with purple. Raceme simple 

 or branched, sometimes 50-flowered; flowers densely 

 clustered ; peduncle 1-1 J ft. in height, purple, with dull 

 blotches ; bracteoles lanceolate, acute, pale lilac, the lowest 

 up to 1 in. long; pedicels slender, over ^ in. long, arti- 

 culate near the apex. Perianth pale lilac ; tube funnel- 

 shaped, I in. long ; lobes oblong-ovate, ^ in. long, I in. 

 wide, thickened at the tip and minutely pubescent. 

 Filaments declinate, unequal, rather longer than the 

 perianth; anthers dorsifixed, oblong, J in. long; con- 

 nective produced, blunt. Ovary oblong', trisulcate, J in. 

 long ; style rather stout, longer than the stamens ; stigma 

 subcapitate, faintly 3-lobed. 



Fig. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, pistil :— all enlarged. 



