Tas. 5125, 
RHODODENDRON SHEPHERDII. 
Mr. H. Shepherd’s Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcra#.—Degcanprra Monoeynta, 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, ‘Tan, 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Shepherdii ; foliis lineari-oblongis acutis glaberrimis utrinque 
. concoloribus basi subacutis, venis subtus tenuibus margine recurvis, capl- 
tulis terminalibus plurifloris, pedicellis glaberrimis, calyce 5-lobo parvo, lobis 
ciliolatis subacutis, corolla ampla campanulata coccinea eequaliter 5-loba 
staminibus 10, ovario glaberrimo, capsulis gracilibus recurvis. 
RuopopEnpron Shepherdii. Nutt. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 1855, 0. 5. p. 360. 
This is another of the beautiful and novel forms of Rhodo- 
dendron introduced by the venerable Nuttall from the mountains 
of Bhotan and Assam, and flowered by himself at Nutgrove, in | 
Cheshire. Tt differs from Rhododendron Kendrickii (of which a 
Plate will soon appear), in the glabrous ovary and large calyx ; . 
from R. arboreuvm in the colour of the under surface of the leaf, — 
the slender nerves, and larger calyx; and from &. eas 
which is perhaps its nearest ally, in the absence of seta on 
petiole, and small calyx. Mr. Nuttall remarks that it grew on — 
the Oola Mountains of Bhotan with 2. eimium, and that it is — 
named in honour of Mr. Henry Shepherd, of the Liverpool 
_ Garden. Our engraving was made from a drawing 
y Mr. Holden, of Warrington. 
Descr. A shrub, with ea bark on the branchlets. Leaves 
towards the ends of the branchlets, three to four inches long, : 
shortly petioled, narrow-linear, oblong or elliptic-oblong, yin : 
three to four inches long by one wide, of a deep-green above, ar e 
below, “very thick and opaque ; the young are of a deep para 
red beneath.” (Nutt.) Buds sharply conic, very smooth, the scales 
JULY lst, 1859. 
