Tas. 4972. 
RHODODENDRON a evn. 
Cream-coloured Rhododendron. 
Nat, Ord. Ericacr®2.—Drcanpria MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4336.) eas 
RHoDODENDRON aléum; subhumile, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis brevi-petiolatis 
acutis subtus ramulis junioribus petiolis pedicellis calycibus ovariisque fer- 
rugineo-lepidotis, corymbis terminalibus umbellatis subsessilibus plurifloris, 
floribus parvis, calycibus minutis, lobis rotundatis ineequalibus, corolla late 
campanulata ochroleuca, lobis rotundatis retusis, staminibus 10, ovario 5- 
loculari elliptico sulcato, disco hypogyno magno carnoso sublobato, stig- 
matis lobis 5 parvis erectis. 
RHoDODENDRON album. Cat. Hort. Buitenz. p.712. De Cand. Prodr. v.17. p. 721. 
(non Ham. et Sweet.) 
_ Vinzya alba. Bl. Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 853. 
A native of the Salak mountains of Java, according to Blume, 
and an exceedingly pretty species; not the less pretty for the 
flowers being rather ochroleucous than white. We do not 
wonder that Blume (the only author who has described the 
plant) should have called them white, in comparison of the 
rich orange or red of the other Javanese species of this genus 
known to that author. The ferruginous undersides of the leaves 
too, occasioned by the copious scales or scurf of that colour, give — 
a richness to the tints of the foliage. In the size, and somewhat — 
in the colour of the flowers, this resembles the Rhododendron 
citrinum (see our Tas. 4797), also a Java plant; but that has 
more tubular and yellower corollas, a larger calyx, only five 
(red) stamens, broader leaves, destitute, as is the rest of the 
plant, of the bright ferruginous scales. The Messrs. Rollison, 
of the Tooting Nursery, have been so fortunate as to possess 
this plant, sent by their collector, Mr. Henshall, from Java. 
With them it flowered in the stove in November, 1856, and 
MARCH Ist, 1857. 
