There are few hardy shrubs more beautiful than the present species, which was exhibited in beautiful condition by Messrs. Veitch two or three years ago. From a specimen furnished by that firm the figure in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 6370, was prepared. A pot-plant is now blooming in the Winter Garden at Kew. The flower has about fifteen narrow petals, white above, and marked with a faint pink central streak externally. In American gardens it is known under the name of M. Halleana, under which name, too, it is figured in our English Floral Magazine, tab. 309. Like so many of the beautiful Japanese plants now cultivated in English gardens, this species is pretty generally cultivated by the Japanese themselves. According to Franchet and Sava-tier it assumes the proportions of a small tree in woods in Central Niphon. - Gardener's Chronicle.