Tas. 5596. 
RHODODENDRON Fortunet. 
Mr. Fortune’s Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcez.—Penranpria Monoaynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
Ruopopenpron Fortunei; glaberrima, nisi ramulis foliis junioribus pe- 
dunculis calycibusque glanduloso-pubescentibus, ramulis robustis, 
foliis sublonge crasse petiolatis oblongis lineari-oblongisve acutis 
supra viridibus subtus pallidioribus, capitulis laxifloris, floribus amplis 
pallide roseis, calycis limbo parvo disciformi, corolla breviter campa- 
nulata, limbo amplo patente sub-7-lobo, lobis subundulatis, staminibus 
ad 14, ovario glanduloso 10-loculari. 
Ruopopenpron Fortunei. Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1859, pl. 868. - 
The centre of the Rhododendron area is certainly Eastern 
Asia, from both the tropical and temperate regions of which 
continent new species are constantly turning up; hitherto, 
however, we have very few from China or Japan. The pre- 
sent very beautiful one was discovered by Mr. Fortune in 
the Chinese province of Chekiang, on mountains 3000 feet 
high. Its discoverer sent seeds to Mr. Glendining at Chis- 
wick, who raised plants that proved perfectly hardy in the 
open air, and from which Dr. Lindley originally described 
the species. For the specimen here figured I am indebted 
to Mr. Luscombe, of King’s Bridge, who flowered it in May 
of the present year. In the foliage and form of the flower 
and structure of the calyx and ovary, as also in its fragrant 
odour, it is closely allied to R. Griffithianum and its variety 
Aucklandii, but excels both these in the lovely rose-colour 
of the corolla. 
Descr. A stout shrub, glabrous everywhere except on the 
young leaves and leaf-scales, peduncles, calyx, and ovary. 
Branches very stout, terete, pale-green. Leaves five to seven 
inches long, oblong or linear-oblong, acute, bright-green but 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1866. 
