We may safely predict, has also a great future before it. it is extremely susceptible to cross-fertilization and from what I have already seen of its tendencies to improvement from that cause, we may hope soon to see it competing for popular favor with the well-known forms of P. sinensis. It may be described as a capitate species, but when well grown it sometimes assumes the whorled form, sending up a second truss from the center of the first umbel. The flowers are white, faintly tinged with lilac and beautifully fringed after the manner of some of the varieties of P. Sieboldii, (Cortusoides amoena.) It is a native of Japan, having been quite recently introduced by the Messrs V< itch, London, through their late collector, Mr. Maries. The treatment essential to its requirements will be found to coincide with that accorded to P. sinensis and varieties. U. S. Botanical Garden, Washington, D. C.