ABSTRACT
Janaki resumed work at Wisley on 16 April 1950: her time from now on would be chiefly devoted to a survey of the genus Rhododendron, besides undertaking chromosome counting for the RHS Fellows, W. B. Turrill of Kew, and amateur gardeners and nursery men. The highlight of this phase of her work was breaking through the diploidy of the non-lepidote Rhododendron (the non-scaly kind of Rhododendron), R. wardii using colchicine; she would dedicate the R. wardii tetraploid to Koichiro Wada, the Japanese nurseryman. Notwithstanding such moments of wonderment, she was resenting the fact that she could not focus on specific research problems, especially developing her new-found border discipline of cytogeography. This was also the time Janaki would fall out with Darlington over differences in the production of a new edition of the Chromosome Atlas; he would choose the young Ann Wylie, who had trained at the John Innes and also under Janaki at Wisley, as his co-author.
