Tap. 4936. 
RHODODENDRON Epceworruit. 
Mr. Edgeworth’s Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ericr#.—DrcanprIa MonoGyntiA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4336.) 
RuopopENDRON Edgeworthii ; frutex seepe epiphytus, ramulis petiolis pedun- 
culis capsulis foliisque subtus dense ferrugineo-villoso-tomentosis, foliis 
sublonge petiolatis elliptico-ovatis acutis vel acuminatis subcoriaceis ru- 
goso-reticulatis basi obtusis supra nitidis marginibus recurvis, pedunculis 
2-3 terminalibus v. ab innovationibus lateralibus, floribus speciosis albis, 
calycis ampli 5-partiti lobis foliaceis oblongo-obovatis inzequalibus lanu- 
ginosis ciliatis, corolle tubo breviusculo late campanulato, limbi maximi 
lobis rotundatis venosis crenato-undulatis, staminibus 10 exsertis, fila- 
mentis inferne villosis, antheris elongatis, ovario dense tomentoso 5-locu- 
lari, stylo gracili basi lanuginoso, capsula oblongo-cylindracea recta obtusa 
valvis lignosis. Hook. fil. 
RHODODENDRON Edgeworthii. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. tab. 22, et in Journ. 
of Hort. Soc. of Lond. v. 7. p..77. 
In India Rhododexdrons are found in the temperate regions 
of the lofty mountains, as well as in the lowlands of the tropics : 
the latter however are chiefly, if not entirely, in the Malayan 
Archipelago. Of these we represented a splendid species in 
our immediately previous Plate (4935), from the plains of 
Sarawak, Borneo. A no less beautiful species, but of another 
description, is the subject of our present Plate, a native of the 
valleys of the inner ranges of the Sikkim-Himalaya Mountains, 
usually pendulous from trees, sometimes from rocks, elevation 
7—9000 feet above the sea-level: and this bears the name of © 
the author’s “accomplished and excellent friend P. Edgeworth, 
Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, then Commissioner of Mool- 
tan, who has long and successfully studied the botany of Western 
Himalaya and of north-western India generally.” 
Dr. Hooker justly observes of this, that it is a “truly superb 
species, from the size of the flowers and the roseate tinge on a 
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