l^fjobotenbron ^ocietp J^otesi. 
campanulate, filaments and pistil white, stamens pinkish-brown. This is 
almost deciduous, and appears to be one of the chartophyllum section. 
Last week in May. A rhododendron flowered of which Forrest’s description 
is “ Rhod. sp ? Tali range. 6-10 feet. Flowers? Open thickets, 11,000 feet.” 
And the flower is as follows :—Lemon-yellow (Repertoire de couleurs)—which 
means that it is as yellow as Boothii but brighter, 3-5 in a truss, A, by inch, 
five or six-lobed, unspotted campanulate, filaments the same colour as corolla, 
stamens rather darker, stigma yellowish-green. Prof. Bayley Balfour believes 
this to be R. aureum Franchet. 
Third week in September. R. repens (13259F), a near relation of 
R. Forrestii. It is an absolutely prostrate plant and climbs like ivy, vith 
a single scarlet-crimson flower 3.8 cm. long, tubular campanulate. I have 
put its pollen on to adenogynum and flavidum, but fear it may be too late in 
the season for them to ripen seed. 
Also HiPPOPHAEOiDESXFA.STiGiATUM —sown February, 1918, produced its 
first flower. The plant has the habit of fastigiatum, but the flowers are the 
palest possible lavender, almost white, and a group of the plants should look 
very pretty. 
The hot summer followed by rain has brought a good many species into 
flower, and at the time of writing (September 21st), there are blooms on 
ADENOGYNUM, FASTIGIATUM, RUPicoLUM, FLAVIDUM, and a white hybrid from 
this, PARVIFOLIUM, ” PROSTIGIATUM,*” REPENS, HIPPOPHAEOIDES, PONTICUM, 
CEPHALANTHUM, CEPHAI.ANTHOIDES, KeYSII, ANTHOPOGON, and HIPPOPHAEOIDES 
X FASTIGIATUM. 
Amongst this year’s seedlings, caterpillars have been very troublesome,’at 
first a lot of small green ones, and now many tiny dark olive-green, which feed 
under the leaves, and when they drop are almost indistinguishable from the soil,- 
and are thus difficult to catch. Some seedlings, which were not numerous, they 
have entirely destroyed. 
E. J. P. MAGOR. 
September 21s/, 1919. 
* Prostratum xtastigiatum, a most beautiful hybrid raised by Mr. Magor.—C. C. E. 
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