CXXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
of colours had occurred at the John Innes Institution due to the inter- 
crossing that had been done there during experimental investigations. 
Hollyhock Rust. — Mr. J. Ramsbottom, M.A., remarked upon the 
death of Hollyhocks through attacks of rust (Puccinia Malvacearum) 
commenting upon the supposed falling off of virulence in that fungus, 
or the gain of resistant power in Hollyhocks, which had evidently not 
occurred in all races. 
Fasciation. — Mr. E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., showed a fasciated piece 
of Verbascum virgatum in which the upper 2 feet of an 8-foot stem 
only showed the fasciation. Mr. A. Wilson, of Shovell, Bridgwater, 
sent a piece of fasciated Delphinium which had occurred on a plant 
in his garden, one side of which, year after year, showed this fasciated 
growth. 
Proliferation in Salsify. — Mr. W. C. Worsdell, F.L.S., showed a 
proliferated head of Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) from Mr. Miller 
Christy's garden at Chelmsford. Each floret, which was stalked, had 
produced a secondary capitulum. 
Stapelia Leendertziae, N. E. Brown. — Mr. W. E. Ledger exhibited 
Stapelia Leendertziae, and commented upon it as follows : — 
" The plant exhibited first flowered in England in August 1912 (the 
only other specimen flowering subsequently at Kew), and was figured 
at t. 8561 of the Botanical Magazine for June 1914. 
"It is remarkable for its large, purple-crimson campanulate 
flowers. Both in shape and colour it differs, I believe, from all other 
species of the genus, although S. nobilis, N. E. Br., figured on t. 7771 
of the Bot. Mag., is also campanulate, but the tube is considerably 
shorter. 
" The flowers of 5. Leendertziae are about 2 \ inches deep, 2 inches 
across the tube, and over 4 inches to the tips of the spreading lobes. 
The interior of the flower is beset with long, purple-crimson hairs, and 
the flowers emit the evil smell common to the genus. 
" The stems are erect, decumbent at the base, 3 to 5 inches or 
more long, about \ inch thick, velvety-puberulous, the sides rather 
hollowed, and the angles furnished with small, soft, erect teeth or 
leaflets. The follicles are large, 4 to over 5 inches in length. 
" The shape and colour of the flowers are so distinct that the species 
might well constitute a separate sub-genus or section. 
" The plant was discovered in 1909 by Miss Leendertz, now Mrs. 
Pott, curator of the Transvaal Museum at Pretoria, growing among 
sunny rocks near Heidelberg in the Transvaal, and is said to flower 
freely and over a long period. 
" I received the plant exhibited from Mr. G. Thorncroft, of Barber- 
ton, in August 1 910, and so it was just two years in my collection 
before flowering. 
" The species was first described by Mr. N. E. Brown in The Annals 
of the Transvaal Museum, vol. ii. p. 168 ; the only other account of 
it is the one accompanying the figure of my plant in the Bot. Mag. for 
June 1914. 
