Tab. 7614. 

 RHODODENDRON yunnanense, Franch. 



Native of Yunnan. 



Nat. Ord. Erice.e. — Tribe Riiodore-e. 

 Genus Rhododendron, Linn.; (Benth. & llook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 599.) 



Rhododendron (Eurhododendron) yimrcanerase ; frutex erectus, ramis robustis, 

 ramulia cortice fnsco tectis, foliis breviter petiolatis 2g-3 poll, longia 

 elliptico-lanceolatia acutis acumiuatisve coriaceia baai anguatatia supra 

 luride viridibus marginibusque setuloais, costa pallida, aubtus palli- 

 dioribus glaberrimia sparse lepidotis, nervia utrinque costae ad 9 

 gracillimis, petiolo crassiusculo J-J poll, longo, floribua erecto-patentibua 

 in corymbos terminales laxuoa dispositia, rhachi glaberrima robuata 

 pollicari, bracteis riliformibus.. pedicellis f-l-poll. longis, calyce minuto 

 cupalari lepidoto margine undulato, corolla 2 poll, expans. late infundibu- 

 lar! alba fauce baain versua loborum posticorum maculia sanguineia 

 aspersa, lobia tubo alte 5-costato intus pubescente multo longioribus 

 oblongis obtusia patenti-recurvis, 2 antici3 majoribus, staminibus 10 

 lobis corollas longioribus patentim declinatis, filamentis exsertis gracilibua 

 infra medium barbatis, antheris parvis obloDgis flavo-brunneis, ovario 

 oblongo 5-loculari dense lepidoto, stylo gracili glaberrimo, stigmata 

 capitellato. 



R. yunnanenae, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii. (1886), p. 233. 

 Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889), p. 32. 



The rapidly increasing number of new species of 

 Mhododendron coming from Western China, renders fcbeir 

 identification by published descriptions proportionally 

 difficult, and it hence becomes the duty of the Botanical 

 Magazine to figure as many of these as it can consistently 

 with the claims of other interesting plants. A specimen 

 of the species here figured was sent to Mr. Franchet (by 

 whom a host of Chinese species have been for the first 

 time described), and he has identified it with his R. yun- 

 nanense, one of the Abbe Delavay's many discoveries, a 

 native of Houang-li-pin in Yunnan. The specimen figured is 

 from a plant received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from 

 Messrs. Veitch in 1894, and which flowered in April, 1897. 

 It differs a little from Franchet's description, in having no 

 scales on the upper surface of the leaf, and in the calyx 

 not being ciliolate. It is perfectly hardy at Kew. 



Descr. — An erect shrub; branches stout, terete, clothed 



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