Tas. 4928. 
: RBODQDENDRON .s4sun ss 1 eee 
var. WALLICHII. 
Bell-flowered Rhododendron ; Dr. Wallich’s var. 
Nat. Ord. Ericem.—DEcANDRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
RAODODENDRON campanulatum ; frutex dense ramosus, ramulis foliis subtus 
petiolisque Magis minusve ferrugineo-tomentosis, foliis brevissime petiolatis 
ellipticis obovatisve acutis coriaceis basi cordatis supra glaberrimis intense 
viridibus, floribus 6-10 laxe capitatis pallide roseis, pedunculis elongatis, 
calyce obsoleto 5-lobo, corollis lato-campanulatis, staminibus 10, ovariis 
5—8-locularibus. 
RHODODENDRON campanulatum. Don, in Wern. Trans. v. 3. p.410. Sw. Brit. Fl. 
Gard. 2. p. 241. Wall, Cat. n.156. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 121. Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1944. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 359. Hook. Fil. in Journ. of Hort. 
Soc. Lond. v. 1. p. 78. 
B, foliis subtus pilis articulatis ferrugineis sparsim ‘tomentosis v. subglabris, 
corollis immaculatis. (Tan. Nostr. 4928.) 
RHopopENDRON Wallichii. Hook. Fil. Rhod. Sik. Him. t. 64. t. 5. 
-Native of the interior of Sikkim-Himalaya. When Dr. Hooker 
prepared his description on its native mountain he considered 
this to be a new species, which he named after our lamented 
friend Dr. Wallich, not being then aware of the sportive nature 
of Rhododendron campanulatum, of which he afterwards, and no 
doubt justly, considered it to be a mere variety, with the rusty 
down of the foliage nearly obsolete; and as such we represent 
it here, from plants raised at Kew from Himalayan seeds, and 
which blossomed in May, 1856. : ; 
In this variety the petioles of the leaves are deeply tinged with 
red, and the scales of the leaf-bud are also red,—characters 
JULY 1st, 1856. 
