As far as can be judged from immature capsules, R. multi- 
color does not belong to this section. A variation in colour, 
such as this species presents, is not unusual in the genus, 
and occurs in R. javanicum, R. lepidotum, and others, but 
in none known to me is the contrast so vivid between the 
yellow and red as in &. multicolor. 
This beautiful plant was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, 
seeds having been sent home by their indefatigable collector, 
Mr. Curtis, who has since been appointed by the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies to the charge of a new colonial 
Botanical Garden, which is about to be formed in the Island’ 
of Penang. The red variety flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s 
establishment in December of last year, and the yellow 
flowered in February of this. It is to this indefatigable 
firm that we owe almost all the Malayan Rhododendrons 
that have been introduced into England. 
Duscr. A small glabrous slender bush, with a few minute 
scattered scales on the shoots, back of the leaf, petiole, and 
pedicels. Leaves whorled, from three to seven together, 
two to three inches long, by one-half to three-fourths of an 
inch broad, elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, con- 
tracted into short petioles, rather dull green above, paler 
beneath ; midrib stout; nerves indistinct. Flowers few, 
horizontal, in terminal umbels, arising from deciduous oblong 
concave pale-green bud-scales, which are as long as the 
pedicels (one-half to three-fourths of an inch). Calyx 
minute, obscurely five-lobed. Corolla one inch long, between 
funnel- and bell-shaped, dark red or bright yellow; lobes 
five, equal, one-third the length of the tube, ovate obtuse 
im the red form, more rounded in the yellow. Stamens ten, 
included, subsymmetrically disposed, filaments subequal, 
hairy at the base; anthers small, yellow. Ovary five-celled, 
oblong, obscurely pubescent ; style oblique, stigma truncate. 
Capsule (unripe) one-third of an inch long, woody.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Staméns ; 
all enlarged. 3, calyx and ovary; 4, transverse section.of ovary :— 
