A very lovely species from Japan, admirably represented in Bot. Mag., t. 5673. Stem I½ - 3 feet high, brownish, clothed with narrow lanceolate leaves, pointing upwards - racemose at the top. Flowers from 1 - 6 in number; perianth segments 3 - 4 inches long, clear lemon, copiously spotted with claret-colored well defined spots, sharply reflexed, the flower almost assuming a globular form. The slender stems have a curious habit of running under the surface of the soil, and if you place a bulb in the center of a pot it is quite likely to appear near the side. I find this species also delights in a mixture of peat and leaf soil, my finest specimen being in a damp bed planted in such a compost. It is flowering very freely this season, and the individual blooms are very fine. It is evidently very plentiful in Japan, as it can be secured in quantity large enough to make it much more plentiiul than it is; of course the high figure which has up to the present been asked for it has deterred many from securing it. - Gardeners' Chronicle.