that country. In spite, therefore, of their rather striking 
differences the two appear to be races rather than varieties 
of the same species. ‘The cultivation of this Rhododendron 
does not differ from that which is suitable for Rhododendrons 
generally. It likes a soil preferably but not necessarily of 
a peaty nature and free from lime; it requires abundant 
moisture. When peat is not readily available a plentiful 
admixture of decayed leaves forms a good substitute. The 
plant from which the material for our plate was obtained 
1s one imported from Tokyo in 1894; at Kew it grows as 
a low spreading bush. 
Descriprion.—Shrub; branches glabrous. Leaves ‘ob- 
lanceolate, apex bluntly mucronate, base somewhat cuneate, 
about 3 in. long, 3-14 in. wide, firmly coriaceous, green, 
glabrous and closely reticulate above, rusty tomentose 
beneath; petiole about 2 in. long, stout, transversely 
rugose, at first finely pubescent, at length glabrous. Bud- 
scales obovate spathulate, rounded at the tip, reaching | 1. 
in length, membranous, pubescent on both surfaces. Bracts 
linear-filiform, 5 lin. long, pilose. Pedicels 1-1} in. long, 
sparingly clothed with crisped hairs. /Vowers about 34 in. 
across, Caly« short, 5-toothed; teeth triangular, rather 
blunt, sparingly pubescent. Corolla almost campanulate, 
rose-coloured, 5-lobed ; tube 3 in. long, glabrous without 
and within; lobes somewhat rounded, emarginate, over 
1 in. wide. Stamens 10-11, hardly exserted ; filaments 
unequal, over 1 in. long, puberulous below, glabrous 
above; anthers yellow, nearly 2 lin. long. Ovary 5-celled, 
densely rusty pilose; style hardly longer than the filaments, 
glabrous ; stigma minutely 5-lobed. 
2k 1, part of leaf, showing undersurface; 2, bract; 3, calyx and pistil; 
45, stamens ; 6, section of ovary ; 7, hair fiom ovary :—all enlarged. 
