exhibit a gradual transition to what may be considered the 
most reduced form of the same species. The form which 
may be regarded as typical A. dawricum was figured from 
the garden of Mr. Woodford, Vauxhall, at t. 636 of this 
work so long ago as 1803; the variety sempervirens 1s, 
represented at t. 1888. The only other species belonging 
to this section is the pretty &. virgatum, Hook. f., por- 
trayed at t. 5060 of this Magazine. Judging, so far as it 
is safe to do so, from its short existence under cultivation in 
this country, 2. mucronulatum would appear to be hardy 
and a good grower. With their roots in a sandy peaty 
soil, our plants have made shoots 6 to 12 in. long during 
the past summer. This Rhododendron is deciduous, its 
leaves turning yellow before they fall; it can be increased 
by means of cuttings. 
Description.— Shrub, dwarf and branching; the twigs 
slender and sparingly lepidote. Leaves scattered, the inter- 
nodes rarely longer than the petioles, deciduous, shortly 
stalked; blades thin, lanceolate, 14-3 in. long, usually 
narrowed to both ends, apiculate, margins somewhat undu- 
late, sparingly lepidote on both faces, but most markedly 
beneath; petioles 2-3 lin. long. Flower-buds sessile, 
1-flowered, in groups of 2-5 near the tips of the twigs; 
scales more or less lepidote, wide, nearly orbicular, the 
outer rather firm, ciliolate, about 2 lin. long, the inter- 
mediate thinner, white, fimbriated, about 4 lin. long, the 
mnermost 2-3 linear-spathulate, fimbriated, 5-6 lin. long. 
Flowers pale reddish-purple, 13-2 in. across, shortly 
peduncled. Calyx very short, with deltoid lepidote teeth. 
Corolla wide campanulate, puberulous outside, but not 
lepidote, epunctate within; lobes wide imbricate, rounded 
and undulate. Stamens 10, declinate, alternately shorter 
and longer, the longest not exceeding the corolla ; filaments 
hirsute below the middle with flattish linear crisped 1-celled 
hairs; anthers very dark purple. Ovary 5-celled, lepidote, 
style glabrous, curved, rather longer than the longest 
stamens. Capsule not seen. 
Fig. 1, portion of undersurface 
isti f a leaf; istil ; ale from 
the pistil; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, e of a leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, a se 
hairs :—all enlarged. 
