bristles. Zeaves much confined to the apex of the branches, 
shortly petioled (petiole glandular-bristly), lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, reticulated, plane at the margin, dark green above, 
rather rusty-coloured beneath, the margin and costa and veins and 
veinlets clothed beneath and rough with short, harsh, bristly hairs. 
Flower-buds at first enclosed in a strodilus of large, imbricated, 
very glutinous, deciduous 4racteas. Umbels four- to six-flowered. 
Peduncles hispid with glandular hairs. Calyz, especially the 
margins, equally hispid, deeply cleft to the base into four erect, 
almost lmear-subulate, rather long segments or sepals. Corolla 
four inches across, ¢vbe rather short, campanulate, white. Limd 
four inches across, deeply cut into five obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
unequal-veined segments, the upper one the broadest: the 
ground-colour in our figure is white, the lobes, especially the apex 
and margins, are tinged with delicate rose-colour. But there is 
another state of the flower described by Captam Champion 
as the more usual colour, “delicate white, the upper lip pale 
yellow towards the centre, and copiously dotted with ochre.” 
Stamens ten. Filaments much protruded, slightly curved up- 
wards. Style equalling the stamens in length. Stigma a de- 
pressed disc. Capsule five- to six-celled, elongated, nearly two 
inches long and three lines wide, cylindrical, straight, clothed 
with glandular bristles, “dehiscing from the base upwards, 
but remaining attached to the central axis.” W. J. H. 
Cutt. This Rhododendron is not yet to be seen in a living 
state in this country; but, as the seeds of Rhododendrons, like” 
most of the Hricacee, do not suffer much during their transmission 
from distant countries, we hope we shall soon have another 
added to the many new species lately raised by us from the 
seeds collected by Dr. Hooker in Sikkim-Himalaya. 7. 8. 
Fig. 1. Capsule:—zatural size. 
We gladly occupy an otherwise vacant space by some notes of Captain 
Champion on thie other Hricacee (including Vacciniee) of Hong-Kong. 
Of Azaleas the best-known species are— 
1. A. Indica, var. phoenicea, which is of common occurrence in Hong-Kong in 
ravines. It flowers early in spring, and towards March appears in great beauty 
about waterfalls, by the side of streams, and on rocks or mountains, especially 
towards the eastern side of the island. 
Still more common is the 
2. Azalea squamata, one of Mr. Fortune’s species, producing a few flowers 
early in winter, but bursting into luxuriant blossom when the fogs and humid 
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