Tas. 5002. 
RHODODENDRON catLopHytuivo. 
Handsome-leaved Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ericrea.—Drcanpria MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON calophyllum, Nutt.; fruticosum, foliis brevi-petiolatis oblongo- 
ovatis subellipticis insigniter acutis basi rotundatis subtus glaucis (etate 
ferrugineis) squamosis, corymbis 4—5-floris, calycis laciniis brevibus rotun- 
datis, corolla ampla tubuloso-campanulata alba, staminibus 20, filamentis 
ta ovario squamoso, capsulis cylindraceo-ovatis obtusis 10-locula- 
ribus. 
RHODODENDKON calophyllum. Nutt. in Kew Gard. Misc. v. 5. p. 362. 
A 
It was a matter of surprise and of interest to botanists and 
cultivators, that during Dr. Hooker’s exploration of the moun- 
tains of Sikkim-Himalaya, he should have detected no less than 
forty-three species of Rhododendrons, of which thirty were con- 
sidered new; and no less a matter of surprise that when Mr. 
Booth, shortly after, visited the adjacent mountains of Bootan, 
he should have added, as detailed by Mr. Nuttall in the journal 
above quoted, sixteen to the number of novelties. We have rea- 
son to believe that if the lofty mountains of the Malayan Archi- 
pelago were as well explored, an equally extensive harvest would 
be reaped. The present is among the number of those disco- 
vered by Mr. Booth, of which seeds were received by Mr. Nut- 
tall, at Nutgrove, Rainhill, where flowers were produced, as well 
as at the Royal Gardens (on a plant presented by Mr. Nuttall), 
in May of the present year, 1857. Mr. Nuttall, from specimens 
without flower, in his description, /.c., judged that the species was 
very nearly allied to his Rhod. Jenkinsii ; itself too near, if really 
distinct from, R. Maddeni (see our Tab. 4805): yet the habit is 
distinct, the corollas in our present plant are much shorter, the 
bracts more persistent, and there is a great disposition, at least 
in our specimen, to send out from the corymbs of flowers new 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1857. 
