Wf)c i^fjobobenbron ^ocietp ^otes. 
When well and generously grown, the truss is large and handsome, as well 
as most brilliant in colour. Mr. Booth found it in Bhotan growing with 
R. EXiMiUM, which is to the Sikkim R. Falconeri what R. Hookeri is to the 
Sikkim R. Thomsonii ; but R. eximium has strange vagaries of its own, which 
are rather puzzling, such, for instance, as deferring its spring shoots often until 
August, when they grow with an orange tomentum, like tawny sunflowers. 
R. Hookeri, on the other hand, is early in its growth. 
My next notable “ find ” at Glasnevin was a real veteran of R. lanatum ; 
but I have trespassed on your space for the present quite long enough. 
J. H. M. 
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