flowered for the first time in the garden of the late 
Mr. Acton, at Kilmacurragh, Wicklow; it was figured in 
1907 at t. 8137 of this work. The species here described 
has postponed flowering for even a longer period, for it was 
not till 1908 that it first blossomed in the garden of 
Mr. P. L.de Vilmorin, at Verriéres-le-Buisson. It has now to 
be recorded as having flowered in this country in the garden 
of Mr. F. D. Godman, at South Lodge, Horsham, where a 
collection of Rhododendrons has been, for many years, 
cultivated with exceptional skill and success. From this 
plant, a large and hardy bush, which blossomed for the 
first time in April, 1910, was obtained the material from 
which our illustration has been prepared. It may be men- 
tioned that there is an equally fine example of R. lacteum at 
Kilmacurragh, of the same age as the South Lodge plant, 
but that there is as yet no record of its having flowered. 
In this feature of not flowering until it is about 20 years 
old #. lacteum resembles its nearest ally, R. Fulconeri, 
Hook. f., figured at t. 4924 of this Magazine, and there is 
every indication that it may grow to as large a size as 
f. Faleoneri and &. grande, Wight, attain in the warmer 
parts of Britain, and that it may prove fully as hardy as 
these species. It should be noted that another species of 
Rhododendron, from Borneo, first described in 1894, has 
been given the same name. For this latter plant, R. lacteum, 
Stapf, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 197, t. 15, 
Mr. Hemsley proposes to substitute the name &. Stapfianum, 
Hemsl. 
Derscriprion.— Tree, gregarious, flowering shoots stout, 
firm, at first hairy. Leaves clustered at the ends of the 
shoots, petioled, coriaceous, firm; blade oblong-lanceolate, 
6-8 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, rounded and mucronulate at 
the apex, base rounded or somewhat cuneate, glabrous 
above, densely rusty-tomentose beneath, midrib stout, raised 
beneath, main veins about 15 on each side, fairly conspicuous; 
petiole very stout, abont 1 in. long. Corymbs dense, sub- 
sessile, many-flowered, 6-7 in. across; bracts (the outer not 
seen) obovate-oblong, about 1 in. long, rounded, pubescent ; 
pedicels tomentose, 1-14 in. long. Lowers white, with a 
blood-red patch in the upper portion of the tube within, 
2-23 in. wide, obliquely attached to the pedicel. Calyx very _ 
