first bursts forth. Such a Rhododendron well merits the name of 
the late Mr. Nuttall, given to it by its discoverer, Mr. Booth; 
and we know that but a little before his lamented death, one 
of the last sources of pleasure he derived from the vegetable 
creation, which he had so long and so successfully studied, was 
the information of his namesake having for the first time flow- 
ered (at Kew), and the sight of the large drawing above referred 
to. The species was discovered by Mr. Booth, in the “ Duphla 
~ Hills, at Meré Patao, about Seram’s village, on the banks of the 
Papoo, Bhotan, growing in swampy grounds, among Yews and 
Oaks, sometimes epiphytically on trees, and at an elevation of 
from four to five thousand feet above the sea-level.” We have 
seen a drawing of a specimen in the possession of Mr. Standish, 
which flowered on the Continent ; and Lady Dorothy Nevill in- 
forms us she has a plant showing flower at this time (October, 
1859). 
__ Descr. Height thirty feet in its native country ; when an epi- 
phyte, it rises only fre m twelve to thirteen feet, and has then 
thick tuberous r Leaves from six inches to nearly a foot long, 
firm and coria acute, strongly reticulated, and _blistered 
or bullate in the areoles, dark-green, much paler beneath, and 
there partially covered with numerous minute, circular, peltate, 
resinous scales. Corymb varying in size according to the number 
of flowers, which are from four to ten or twelve. Calyz an inch 
long, with large, obovate, greenish lobes, tinged with red. Corolla 
pure-white, fragrant, having a deep-yellow tinge at the base 
within ; the lobes slightly tinged with rose-colour: ‘wbe broad- 
infundibuliform, with five cavities at the base; the lobes: very 
large, broad, and obtuse. Stamens ten, curved upwards. Ovary 
ovato-rotundate, scaly, five- to ten-celled. Style shorter than the 
tube of the corolla. Stigma very large, peltate, with five lobes. 
_ Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of ovary. 4. Seales on the under 
side of the leaf :—magnified. 
