Tas. 4932. 
RHODODENDRON camMELLLEFLORUM. 
Camellia flowered Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcea.—Dercanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON camellieflorum ; ramulis petiolis pedunculis ovariis foliisque 
subtus dense ferrugineo-lepidotis, foliis crasse petiolatis coriaceis elliptico- 
lanceolatis acuminatis coriaceis basi acutis obtusisve, floribus solitariis ¥; 
binis breve crasse pedunculatis, pedunculis basi bracteolatis, calycis limbi 
lobis 5 obtusis, corolle albee crasse coriacew tubo subinflato lobis expla- 
natis orbiculatis concavis breviore, staminibus 16, filamentis breviusculis 
ciliatis, stylo crasso curvo, ovario 10-loculari, capsula breviter oblonga 
lignosa. 
RHODODENDRON camellizeflorum. Hook. fil. in Sik. Rhod. t. 28. Journ. Hort. 
Soc. Lond. 1852, pp. 80, 103. 
The present plant is another example of the strange dissimi- 
larity in habit and general appearance that prevails throughout 
the now extensive genus Rhododendron. With the exception of 
the 2. pendulum, a smaller species from the same country not 
yet introduced into England, there is none to which R. camel- 
“eflorum can be at all compared in the form of its flower and 
habit combined ; the foliage however resembles in many points 
. that of R. Maddeni and cinnabarinum, and the corolla that of R. 
lepidotum, in form. ‘The plant here figured was detected by Dr. 
Hooker in the pine forests of East Nepal and Sikkim, at an ele- 
vation of 9000 to 12,000 feet ; it was also found by the late Mr. 
Griffith in the mountains of the adjacent province of Bhotan. It 
generally grew epiphytically on the limbs of lofty trees, whence 
its branches hung down and were several feet long ; but in the 
looser forests, where light and air were better distributed, it was 
AuGusT Ist, 1856. 
