^f)e Ebobobenbron ^ociet|> ^ote£(. 
contrasting well with the brown leaves of the young shoots derived from Boothii. 
A straggling flat-growing plant of unknown origin, though raised from seed here, 
and which Prof. Bayley Balfour says is R. oleifolium, Fr., but which differs 
from Forrest’s oleifolium in having pure white flowers and a much less erect 
habit, and also in flowering some weeks earher. The authorities at Kew say 
that Forrest’s plant is Franchet’s oleifolium, but I can hardly believe that 
these two are one and the same species. The flowers were pure white, single in 
the axils of the leaves, campanulate, unspotted, five lobed, 1|- by If- inch, fila¬ 
ments white, stamens bright brown, stigma yellowish-white. 
1539W, a species yet unnahied, six flowers in a loose truss, pale \dolet-rose 
with a dense spotting of crimson, and a blotch of crimson at the base, five lobed, 
campanulate, 1-| by I J inch, filaments blush-white, stamens pale-brown, stigma 
yellowi.sh-white. 
Another plant of Wilson’s of which the number is lost, but which may be a 
variety or natural hybrid of strigillosum, seven in a loose truss, pale violet-rose, 
campanulate, unspotted, but with a blotch of crimson at the base, 2 by IvV inch, 
filaments white, stamens dark-brown, stigma yellowish-white, five lobed. 
R. 7794W MACROSEPALUM, violet-rose, four in a loose truss, calyx green 
divided to the base, and almost as long as the corolla, four lobed and deeply 
cleft, spotted on two segments with crimson, filaments same colour as corolla, 
stamens four in number, pale-brown, stigma yellowish-white with pink apex, 
openly campanulate. 
R. “ Keisicarbor ” (Keiskei X pink arboreum), white, shaded old-rose, with 
a blotch of crimson at the base, and two short fines of crimson spots, narrowly 
campanulate, l-Ar by inch, 10 in a truss, stamens bright-brown, stigma and 
filaments white. 
One of a batch of rogues which came among seed marked R. taliense— 
Tali Range 12,000 feet. I believe these to be a natural cross between 
haematodes and neriiflorum, as the leaves in about a dozen plants show ever 5 ' 
gradation of tomentum, and colouring from one species to the other. Ten in a 
truss, blood-red, unspotted, Ij by If inch, waxy, rather narrowly campanulate, 
filaments and stigma paler than corolla, stamens dark-brown, five lobed. Com¬ 
pared with neriiflorujM the flower is rather larger, of more substance and 
more fleshj^ rather longer in the tube, not so deeply cleft into segments, and 
the colour is even more brilliant. 
Third week in May. R. indicum macrostemon (7862W), solitary flowers 
on a dwarf compact plant, lilac-rose with red spots on the upper segments, 
lii,- by 2| inch, five lobed, openly campanulate, filaments and pistil red, stamens 
fight brown. This plant has set large pods of seed to the blue Augustinii 
(4238W). 
Second week in May. R. mollicornum (10347F), flowers in two’s in the 
axils of the leaves, pale-rose, five-lobed, 1 by 1 inch, filaments and pistil same 
colour as corolla, stamens purplish-brown, tubular campanulate. 
Fourth week in May. R. stereophyllum (11299F), pure white with orange 
spotting on upper segments, four in a truss, five-lobed, by If inch. 
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