Tas. 4609. 
RHODODENDRON Cuampiona. 
Mrs. Champion's Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcace™.—Dercanpria MonoGyNntia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
RaoDODENDRON Champione ; foliis lanceolatis brevi-anguste acuminatis reticu- 
latis planis supra glabris margine costa nervisque subtus piloso-scaberrimis, 
ramulis junioribus petiolis pedunculis calycibus lineari-subulatis fructibusque 
pilis longis glandulosis rigidis hispidis, corollis reticulatis limbo patente pro- 
funde .5-lobo, bracteis viscosissimis. 
We know from experience that there is no surer way of 
having a new and beautiful plant introduced to our Gardens, 
than by publishing a figure and giving its locality. Hence we 
are induced, as upon some former occasions in this work, to ex- 
hibit a species not yet in cultivation, but for the accuracy of the 
figure of which we can vouch, by a comparison of the drawing of a 
Chinese artist with native specimens; both the one and the 
other being also accompanied by notes drawn up on the spot, and 
sent us by Captain Champion of the 95th Regiment, who made 
extensive collections of plants in Ceylon, and afterwards in Hong- 
Kong. In compliment to his amiable and accomplished lady, 
whose partiality for plants equals that of her husband, and who 
accompanied him on many of his botanizing excursions, we 
have named the species. Captain Champion considered it allied 
to R. formosum, Wall., from Khasya, figured in our Tab. 4457; and 
so it is in some respects, but abundantly distinct in the form and 
vestiture of the leaves, in its large glutinous bracts, in the form 
of the calyx, in the ovary and fruit, and especially in the co- 
pious, long, glandular Gris¢/es of the branchlets, petioles, pe- 
duncles, calyx, and fruit. It was found by Captain and Mrs. 
Champion, growing abundantly among rocks, in a ravine at Fort 
Victoria, Hong-Kong, April 28, 1849. 
Descr. A shrub nearly seven feet high; branches terete, di- 
chotomous ; younger ones clothed with long, spreading, glandular 
OCTOBER Ist, 1851. 
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