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truss, about an inch and a half across and with very deeply cleft segments ; the 
other much more compact and of a rather fastigiate habit, with flowers in threes 
in the axils of the leaves all the way up the stem, after the fashion of 
R. RACEMOSUM. The flowers were pink spotted, and about three-quarters of an 
inch across. Forrest’s note on the seed packet was “ Rhododendron 
RACEMOSUM FORMA? Plant of 5-feet, Chutong Hills;” but it certainly is not 
RACEMOSUM, and is probably a new species. 
Among other Rhododendrons flowering here for the first time were the 
following ;—R. ciliatum X Keiskei (one flower before), flower white tinged 
with pink on the outside, about 2 inches across and something like ciliatum, but 
the habit of the plant shows the influence of Keiskei very plainly, being quite 
prostrate. A charming plant for the rock garden, but unfortunately I have only 
raised three plants of it. R. 9048F habrotrichum, had one flower in a cold 
frame, which opened about April 22nd, 16 to 18 flowers in the truss, blush-white 
with a blotch of crimson at the base inside the three upper segments. Five 
lobed, campanulate If X 2 inches on hirsute pedicels about If inches long. 
R. ambiguum X Keysii. Several plants of this cross flowered all extra¬ 
ordinarily like the pollen parent, but rather wider in the mouth and some weeks 
earlier. Rather a curiosity than an acquisition. 
R. 5530F stenaulum also flowered from seed sown in 1911. The plant was 
in a cold frame, those in the open having been killed or cut to the ground by frost. 
The flower was about 2|- inches across, white with a large blotch of orange- 
yellow on the upper segment, and from memory I should say that it was very like 
ithe flower of R. stamineum. I wish I were sufficiently a botanist to describe 
the flower buds, which were quite unlike those of an ordinary Rhododendron. 
They were at the extremity of the branch in the axils of the topmost three or 
four leaves and were larger and more pointed than the leaf buds. The same 
phenomenon has appeared on my plant of R. Champion.^, and I am curious to 
see whether flowers will be produced in this case also. 
About the next I am a little diffident. It is supposed to be Augustinii x 
bullatum, but there is very little trace of bullatum except that it is distinctly 
sweet-scented, and the flowers have rather more substance than in Augustinii. 
Also the leaves are larger and more hairy, and there is hair on the young stems. 
R. 6777F BRACHYANTHUM is a very dainty little plant, with smallish leaves, 
dark green above and very glaucous beneath, rather reminding one of those of 
R. GLAUCUM, but the flowers are yellow, unspotted, in a loose truss of five or six, 
and each flower gives the impression of neatness. Several seedlings of R. 12623F 
HIPPOPH^OIDES flowered. This is a small-leaved high Alpine, and has little 
trusses of six to nine flowers, lavender-blue in colour, but there is considerable 
difference in their shade and one of them was exceedingly beautiful, more of a 
clear porcelain-blue and with a longer stalk to the truss, whereby the flowers 
were better displayed. So far it has more or less the habit of R. flavidum. 
R. 5866F CEPHALANTHOIDES flowered in August ; a very dwarf compact 
plant, but has small mean white flowers on the lines of R. anthopogon. It is, 
however, possible that the spring blooms will be better. 
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