Paes Tap. 7696. talegs. wav 
-RHODODENDRON ‘ARBOREUM, var. KINGIANUM. 
Native of Manipur. ; 
Nat. Ord. Ertcacra.—Tribe Ruopore. 
Genus RuopopEenpRon, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.) 
ical Mas 
RuopopENpRon arhboreum, var. Kingianum; frutex robustus, ramulis 
crassis, cortice brunneo; foliis apices versus ramulorum confertis 2-3- 
pollicaribus breviter petiolatis oblongis v. ovato-oblongis obtusis convexis 
-marginibus late recurvis subcoriaceis supra late saturate viridibus inter 
nervos -utrinque costs 8-10 arcuatos valde impressos bullatis, subtus 
tomento arcte appresso flavido opertis costa nervisque robustis, petiolo 
robusto, floribus in corymbum capitatum amplum multi-densiflorum 
__ congestis breviter crasse pedicellatis, pedicellis glanduloso-pilosis, calycis 
~ brevis cupularis lobis rotundatis glanduloso-ciliatis, corolla campanulata 
tota saturate coccinea fulgida immaculata, limbo, H laneras diam. 5-lobato, 
lobis patulis bilobulatis, staminibus 10 declinatis, filamentis tubo corollz 
paullo longioribus glaberrimis roseis, antheris parvis brevibus fusco- 
purpureis poris magnis, ovario 10-loculari strigilloso, stylo glaberrimo 
roseo, stigmate annulato minute 10-lobo. 
R. Kingianum, Watt mss. ex Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 306, fig, 102. 
A remarkably beautiful member of a genus abounding 
in strikingly handsome species, happily bearing the name 
of Sir George King, the distinguished late Superintendent 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Calcutta, who in that 
capacity has rivalled his great predecessor Wallich in the 
advancement of Indian Botany. &. Kingianum, Watt, is 
obviously a form of 2. arborewm, from the type of which it 
differs in the crowded, strongly bullate, very dark, almost 
glossy, broader leaves, with broadly recurved margins and 
deeply impressed nerves ; in the well developed five-lobed 
calyx ; in the more deeply two-lobed divisions of the corolla, 
which is of a more intense scarlet, rivalling in that respect 
R. Thomsoni, Hk. f. (tab. 4797); and in the rose-coloured 
stamens. 
Var. Kingianum was discovered by Dr. G. Watt, F.L.S., 
ae Reporter on the Economic Products of India, when on a 
tour of inspection in 1882, upon a mountain called Ching 
Low in Manipur, at an elevation of nine thousand feet’ 
above the sea. Plants of it were raised at the Royal 
January Ist, 1900, 
