no one who has cultivated the Himalayan Rhododendrons on 
a large scale can fail to be struck with the numerous sports 
which have already started off from 2. ciliatum, Dalhousie, cam- 
panulatum, and arboreum, and which will no doubt soon be ac- 
counted as species by nurserymen. 
The more important poimts besides habit in which 2. Bland- 
fordieflorum varies are the form of the calyx-lobes, which, as in 
R. cinnabarinum, are always minute teeth, but of which teeth 
the upper is sometimes elongate and subulate; the size, form, 
and colour of the corolla—which varies from one to two and a 
half inches long, with blunt or acute lobes, and from a pale, 
sickly green colour to a vivid orange-red—being often green 
below and red above. The characters of the stamens, pistil, and 
fruit seem very constant in all the forms. 
Dzscr. A slender shrub, attaining eight feet in height, resem- 
bling R. cinnabarinum in habit, and, like it, considered poison- 
ous to goats and sheep in the Himalaya, and the smoke of 
whose wood, when used for fuel in a tent, causes swelling of the 
face and inflammation of the eyes. Leaves two to three inches 
long, coriaceous in luxuriant plants. Mowers two and a half 
~ inches long, often green before expansion, and afterwards bear- 
ing more or less of a cinnabar or brick-red or orange-red on 
the upper part of the tube and limb, sometimes altogether green, 
at others being red, even in the bud. Stamens ten. Ovary five- 
celled. 
Fig. 1. Portion of under surface of leaf. 2. Scale from ditto. 3. Stamen. 
4. Pistil. 5. Transverse section of ovary. 
