Tas. 4904. 
RHODODENDRON MouLMAINENSE. 
Moulmain Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcea.—Dercanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Moulmainense ; frutex glaberrimus, foliis lato-lanceolatis sub- 
acuminatis utrinque nudis brevi-petiolatis, petiolis basi incrassatis, umbellis 
terminalibus, pedunculis flores longitudine equantibus nudis, calyce minutis- 
simo 5-lobo, corolla (alba intus flavescentis) tubo elongato sulcato, limbi 
subaquilongi lobis oblongo-ovatis undulatis patentibus, ovario oblongo pro- 
funde 6-sulcato 6-loculari, staminibus 10 limbo corolle brevioribus, filamentis 
basi pubescentibus, stylo paululum staminibus longiore. 
Recent botanists have clearly shown that in the eastern 
parts of the world, near the parallel of the Malay Islands, in 
mountain regions from Borneo and Java, south, to the Sikkim- 
Himalaya in the north, is the maximum of Rhododendrons to be 
found: witness Dr. Hooker’s discoveries in the latter country, 
Griffith’s and Mr. Booth’s in the adjacent territory of Bootan, - 
the Dutch botanists in Java, and Mr. Lowe’s in Borneo. The 
native country of the species now figured is within the limits just 
mentioned, namely Moulmain, on the Gerai Mountains, at an 
elevation of 5000 feet above the level of the sea, where it was 
discovered by Mr. Thomas Lobb. It should be observed, that 
a dried specimen from Mr. Lobb, with the same locality, and 
apparently the same species, has red flowers. Seeds were reared 
by Messrs. Veitch of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, and 
the flowering branch here figured was sent to us from a warm 
greenhouse in January of the present year. f 
Descr. Shrud with reddish branches, and glabrous, as is every 
part of the plant, and destitute of the minute scales so common 
to many species of the genus. Leaves mostly spreading from the 
_ apex of a branch and, in the flowering specimen, just beneath the 
umbel, four to five inches long, broadly lanceolate, penninerved, 
MARCH lst, 1856. 
