discovered by Dr. C. H. Martens in the Island of Sitka in 
1828, but is rarely met with in gardens. The material on 
which our illustration is based was obtained from a plant 
which flowered with Mr. T. Smith, Daisy Hill Nursery, 
Newry, in June, 1910. In localities otherwise suitable, the 
cultivation of C. pyrolaeflorus, if grown under the conditions 
necessary for Lhododendron hirsutum, is, Mr. Smith informs 
us, not attended by any difficulty. 
Descriprion.— Shrub; 4-10 ft. high; branehes slender, 
when young reddish and glabrous except for two lines of 
very short reddish hairs, when mature covered with grey 
or tawny bark. Leaves almost sessile, lanceolate or obovate- 
lanceolate, gradually narrowed to the base, gland-tipped, 
2-1 in. long, 4-3 in. wide, thin, glabrous, pale green. 
Flowers terminal on leafy often contracted branches, 
solitary or with a few additional blooms in the axils of the 
uppermost leaves, nodding; pedicels short or at length 2 in. 
long. Calyzx-lobes leafy, lanceolate or linear-oblong, gland- 
tipped, often unequal, about 2 in. long, narrowed above the 
base and ciliolate on both surfaces. Petals oblong, blunt, 
% in. long, thin, soon disappearing, yellowish-red or 
yellowish-rose. Anthers opening at the apex by wide 
chinks. Sty/e incurved, ultimately almost circinate, per- 
sistent. Capsule subglobose, under 4 in. wide, septicidally 
3-5-valved. Seeds minute, compressed, ovoid or ellipsoid. 
Fig. 1, calyx with pistil; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary; 5, cross-section of 
ovary :—all enlarged. 
