Tas. 5146. 
RHODODENDRON NUTTALLIL. 
Mr. Nuttall’s Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcace#.—DEcANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHopopENDRON arboreum ; foliis maximis coriaceis ovalibus utrinque obtusis 
apiculatis subtus valde reticulatis fusco-squamosis, floribus maximis, corym- 
bis 4—6-floris, lobis calycinis crassiusculis oblongo-ovalibus obtusis, corolla 
subcampanulata, staminibus, capsula 5-loculari ealyce persistente 3-tecta, 
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seminibus pallidis ovato-lanceolatis lato-marginatis, marginibus erosis. Nudt. 
Ruopopenpron Nuttallii. Booth, MS. Nutt. in Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. 0. 5. 
p. 855. ae 2 
As Victoria regia is justly considered the Queen of Water- 
lilies, so the plant here represented may with equal justice be 
called the Prince of Rhododendrons. Yet our figure, though on 
a quarto size, does no justice to the plant itself, | 
the Rhododendron House at Kew in May of the present year; 
and of which a drawing of the flowering portion, on impen 
folio, is now before us. The height was nine feet. The principal 
branch was terminated by a corymb of ten or twelve flowers, 
the cluster measuring fifteen inches across: the corollas white, 
yellow in the centre, having measured six inches across, with a 
tinge of blush on the lobes; and the bud, just before erie 
is of the same length. The leaves have their charms too: the 
largest of them a foot long, including the short thick Lap 8 rm 
much puckered on the superior surface, that is swollen or b ee 
in the areoles of the network, and these reflect a strong lig @ 
Nor does this include all the beauties of the plant. The ste. : 
long before it is developed, is enclosed within a scaly me ; : 
May so call it, six inches long and nearly four inches a ie = 
very much resembling a pine-cone or the flower-head of s : 
South African Proteaceous plant ; and the large Son 3 
are richly coloured too, almost white below, deep-rose 1m one 
centre, and tipped with green. Somewhat similar but sm 
Scale-buds envelope the infant foliage, which, too, is red when it 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1859. 
as it floweredin 
