Tas. 4926. 
RHODODENDRON Hooxsnt. 
Dr. Hooker's Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Erick#.—Drcanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Hookeri ; fruticosum erectum, foliis coriaceis glaberrimis rigi- 
dis oblongo-ovalibus obtusis longe petiolatis basi rotundatis subtus glauces- 
centibus pinnatim nervosis, nervis furfuracco-pubescentibus, corymbis mul- 
tifloris, calyce amplo campanulato obsolete et ineequaliter lobato, corolla 
campanulata lobis emarginatis, staminibus 10, capsula’ cylindraceo-ovata 
glabra 7—8-loculari, seminibus lanceolatis marginatis apice laceratis. Nut. 
RHODODENDRON Hookeri. Nutt. in Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. v. 5. p- 359. 
From the garden of Mr. Fairie, of Mosely Hall, near Liver- 
pool, where it flowered in April, 1856. It is one of the many 
new Rhododendrons which rewarded Mr. Booth’s researches in — 
Bootan, and which have been so successfully reared from seed 
by the veteran botanist Nuttall, at Nuttgrove, Rainhill, near 
Prescott. It is really a handsome and brilliant species, forming, 
along with R. eximium, Nutt., “the entire thickets upon the Oola. 
Mountain of Bootan, on the north slopes of the Lablung Pass, 
accompanied by Pinus ewcelsa; elevation above the sea-level 
8000 to 9000 feet, the frost and snow at that time, about the 
20th December, being very severe and continuous.” Mr. Nuttall 
observes it is allied to &. Zhomsoni, but differs in the leaves 
and other characters, as well as in the more numerously-flowered — 
corymb. \ 
Dzscr. “ A tall, erect shrud, twelve to fourteen feet high (on 
its native mountains), with a trunk three to four inches in 
diameter. Branches covered with a whitish-yellow, polished dark. 
Hlower-buds large, the scales dilated and retuse, externally appear- 
ing as if varnished, internally silky. Zeaves smooth, very thick 
and coriaceous, apiculate, oblong or oblong-oval, obtuse at both 
extremities, beneath glaucous, elegantly and curiously pinnatedly 
nerved, the nerves or vessels in right lines marked at regular 
JULY Ist, 1856. 
