priety considered the two as specifically the same. The plant is 
wholly destitute of the minute appressed scales so copious in 
many kinds of Rhododendron. 
Descr. Dr. Hooker gives the following particulars of this 
species from native specimens :—“ A sfrud six to ten feet, or in 
damp woods, fifteen feet, high, but in the latter case spare and 
woody. Lower dranches stout, a foot in diameter ; upper slender, 
leafy, principally at the extremities. Leaves two to three inches 
long, very broad, much resembling those of R. campylocarpum 
(Tab. Nostr. 4968), only that in the latter the leaf-stalks are 
often glandular, here never. The texture of the leaves is coria- 
ceous, but not very thick; the colour full green, below subgla- 
brous, everywhere quite glabrous. Mowers in a head of six to 
eight together, from the ends of the short branches among the 
leaves, on sfa/és an inch or more long, which radiate as it were 
from a centre, spreading horizontally or curling downwards. 
Corolla remarkable from its almost unrivalled deep blood-colour 
and glossy surface, yielding only in those respects to BR. fulgens, 
deeper-coloured than in 2. arboreum; the tube elongated, often 
vertically compressed, two inches long ; the /imé large, spreading, 
five-lobed, the /odes notched, upper ones spotted within. This 
species is perfectly modorous. In the base of the corolla is se- | 
creted much honey, which is not considered poisonous, like that 
yielded by R. Dalhousie and R. argenteum. The two latter spe- 
cies are said to render deleterious the wild honey which is collected 
during their flowering season.” 
Fig. 1. Calyx, including the pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse 
section of the same. 5. Ovary included in the persistent calyx :—nat. size. 
