as the result of attempts to propagate the species by root- 
cuttings; the other has grown well, and is now a shrub 
about seven feet high, which flowered for the first time in 
July, 1911. The two plants are situated in a bed of heaths 
where, to the ordinary sandy soil of Kew, have been added 
a little peat and some leaf soil. Conditions suitable for 
Rhododendrons and the Heath family generally appear to 
suit the Elliottia exactly. The great difficulty with this 
species is to propagate it; although the stigmas were 
carefully dusted with pollen and the flowers attracted 
many bees, not a single fruit was developed. Ordinary 
cuttings of the twigs have been tried several times without 
success. Layering is now being tried, but grafting, which 
suggests itself, seems excluded owing to the difficulty in 
finding a suitable stock. 
Drscriprion.—Shrub, or small tree, 20-24 ft. high, twigs 
virgate, when young slender, pubescent, chestnut-brown, 
later orange-tawny, ultimately grey-tawny and glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, base 
cuneate, 23-4 in. long, 1-14 in. wide, membranous, dark 
green above, glabrous, pale and loosely pilose beneath ; 
petiole dilated below, pubescent, 4—5 lin. long. Inflorescence 
terminal, racemose or almost paniculate, 6—10 in. long, lax ; 
bracts and bracteoles lanceolate or subulate, scarious, semi- 
deciduous ; pedicels slender, 5—7 lin, long. Calya flatly 
cupular, about 2 lin. across, reddish, 4-lobed, the lobes 
rather broad, cuspidate and ciliolate, but otherwise glabrous. 
Petals 4, white, slightly cuneate at the very base, narrow 
spathulate oblong, 5-6 lin. long, under 2 lin. wide. 
Stamens 8; filaments 24 lin. long, linear; anther 2-lobed 
below, oblong-lanceolate, over 1 lin. long. Ovary resting on 
a thick 4-lobed disk, depressed, 4-celled ; style filiform, 
thickened and incurved above, 4 lin, long ; stigma obliquely 
capitate. Lruit unknown. ; 
Fig. 1, bud; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, 
vertical section of calyx, disk and ovary: 
4 and 5, stamens :—all enlarged. 4 
