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colours, the abundance of delicate ferns, and many other attractions, combine to make it a place which all who have known its charms long to revisit; a place not merely to alight at for a moment in our hurried flight, as the legend represents the Buddha to have done, but oue to linger in amidst its rocks and trees in the fall enjoyment of its manifold delights. Prominent among the floral attractions of this place are two fine species of rhododendron, unknown to the botanical world, until specimens were collected by the writer and handed to Dr. Hance, the great authority on botany in China, for description, who has given them a place in their ap- propriate family, under the names of R. Henvyi and R. Mavic. The former was found ia luxuriant bloom on the hills above the monastery, the whole mountain side aglow with its rich lavender hues, and fragrant with its sweet perfume. On shrubs from ten to twelve feet high hung the gorgeous clusters of this most beautiful flower. A year later the second species was found growing almost side by side with the other, but being a few days later in blooming, was not discovered the previous year. In describing this plant in the Journal of Botany, Dr. Hance sa} “{ had the pleasure of describing in the pages of this Jowmal last year a very fine species of rhododendron, <iscovered in Kwong-tung province by Rev. B. C. H——. Lately Mr. H— again visited the locality, and was successful in procuring several vigorous living specimens of this desirable shrub, which I have little doubt will soon be in cultivation in Europe. He was still more fortunate in detecting another extremely beautiful species, also undeseribed, of which he brought