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* RHODODENDRON arbóreum ; var. album. 
White Tree Rhododendron. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Erıcez. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 182.) 
RHODODENDRON. Supra, vol.1, fol. 37. 
R. arboreum ; foliis glabris lanceolatis subtüs micantibus, capsula valvulis 10, 
caule arboreo. 
a. sanguineum ; floribus atrosanguineis, foliis subtus argenteis. 
R. arboreum. Supra; vol. 11, fol. 890. 
DB. roseum ; floribus intense roseis, foliis subtus ferrugineis. Supra, vol. 15, 
fol. 1240. í 
y. album ; floribus candidis, foliis subtus ferrugineis. 
R. arboreum album. Wallich, Pl. As. rar. vol. 2, p. 23, t. 123. 
Never did we behold any flower more perfectly lovely 
than was this when we received it from the conservatory 
Mr. Wells, in the month of February last. Its leaves 
of the richest and deepest green, mellowed by the warm 
tone of their under surface; its large elusters of bell- 
shaped flowers, hanging loosely yet compactly by their 
slender stalks, and the half transparent snowy corollas, 
Without a stain or a spot, save what Nature had given them 
to render their whiteness the more pure and brilliant, formed 
together an effect which few objects could rival, and none 
surpass. Neither the rich crimson of the common Tree 
Rhododendron, nor the deep rose-colour of its pale viis 
can for a moment be compared with that admirable deli- 
cacy which no art can imitate, and no pen describe. 
Dr. Wallich, in his splendid Plante Asiatice, speaks 
thus of the native habits of this noble plant :— py 
'< Both it and the rose-coloured variety are confined to 
the single mountain Sheopore; among those which I had an 
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* See fol. 1240. 
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