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Horticultural Society: this we understand has been named by 
Sir W. J. Hooker &. Vettchi.” The flower, though so large, 
is peculiarly Azalea-looking, and the writer in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle does well to compare the lobes of the corolla to those 
of Azalea ecrispiflora, Hook. (Tab. 4726). Its nearest affinity 
however is with Rhododendron formosum (see Tab. 4457, Wall.; 
Rhod. Gibsoni, Hort.), next to which it should perhaps be ar- 
ranged in the genus ; but it is abundantly distinct both in flowers 
and foliage. 
Descr. Apparently a small or moderately-sized shrub, with 
the older branches clothed with reddish-brown glabrous dark. 
Leaves three to four inches long, truly obovate, coriaceous, 
acute, and even mucronate at the point; below tapering gra- 
dually into a very short footstalk, glabrous and naked above, 
glaucous beneath, and distinctly clothed with scattered, orbicular, 
red or ferruginous, resinous scales, the midrib more closely, and 
with the scales narrower and imbricated. /Jowers three or four 
together from the apex of a branch. Pedice/s scaly, as well as 
the outside of the calyx, which is five-lobed; the lobes short 
and ovate, bearing a few marginal bristles. Corolla very large, 
pure-white, between campanulate and infundibuliform; the 
tube short; the /imd very spreading, of five, nearly equal, much 
spreading, obovate, deep lobes, their margins singularly waved 
and crisped. Stamens twelve to fourteen, arising from an hypo- 
gynous, lobed, annular disc. Filaments glandular below. Anthers 
linear, white. Ovary oblong-ovate, very scaly, as is the base of 
the style. Stigma dilated, five-lobed. 
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_ Fig. 1. Portion of the under side of the leaf. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and 
pistil and hypogynous disc. 4. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. 
