Tas. 4924, 
RHODODENDRON Faxuconert. 
Dr. Falconer’s Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ericace#.—DercanpriA MOoNoGYNIA. 
Gen, Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Falconeri ; arbor, foliis amplis coriaceis oblongo-ellipticis ob- 
ovatisve obtusis v. obscure mucronatis supra glabris nitidis impresse reticu- 
latim venosis subtus dense ferrugineo-tomentosis, florum capitulis densis, 
calyce obsoleto, corollis campanulatis (albis, basi hinc macula purpurea) 
8-lobatis, stamsnibus 13-16, stylo apice incrassato, stigmate magno orbicu- 
lari umblicato, capsula elliptico-cylindracea velutina. 
RuopopEnpron Falconeri. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. p. 11. tab. x., in Journ. 
Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 7. p. 76. 
RHopODENDRON venosum. Nutt. in Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. v. 5. Dp. 364. 
The spring of the present year has been eminently favourable 
to the production of blossoms on the Himalayan Rhododendrons 
(in general however not without protection), and our present 
and succeeding numbers will give proof of this statement. ‘2. 
Falconeri has flowered this season for the first time in Europe ; 
and in two places,—with Messrs. Standish and Noble, who obli- 
gingly sent the plant to us to be here figured, from an open 
frame at Bagshot, without glass, only covered by a mat at night ; 
and with Mr. Fairie, of Mosely Hill, near Liverpool. 
It is one of three noble species of Sikkim (2. argenteum, 
Hook. fil. and 2. Hodysoni, Hook. fil., being the second and 
third), which belong to a group or division thus characterized by 
Dr. Hooker: “Calyx 0. Corolla broadly bell-shaped, ten-lobed. 
Stamens eighteen or twenty (rarely ten). Ovary usually hairy 
or viscid or both, many-celled.—T'rees with large leaves, and 
white or pale-coloured, densely clustered flowers. 2. Faleo- 
nert, even independent of its flowers, is a very striking plant, 
from the size and beauty of the foliage, which its discoverer 
JULY Ist, 1856. 
