Tas. 7782, 
RHODODENDRON ommcatyx. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. Extcacka.—Tribe Ruopores. 
Genus RuopopEnDRON, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 599.) 
RuopopEnpRon (Hurhododendron) ciliicalyx; arbuscula, foliis coriaceis 3-4 
poll. longis ellipticis v. obovato-lanceolatis utrinque acutis supra pallide 
viridibus subtus glaucescentibus squamulis minutis brunneis lepidotis, 
junioribas basi ciliatis, nervis utrinque 6-8 subtus prominulis, petiolo 
revi robusto lepidoto pilis deviduis hirsuto, floribus 3-10 corymbosis mox: 
cernuis, bracteis parvis cymbiformibus ciliatis brunneis, pedicellis brevi- 
bus calycibusque dense lepidotis, calycis cupularis 4 poll. longi lobis 
rotundatis erectis longe setoso-ciliatis, corolla 4 poll. lata alba v. roseo 
suffusa e basi breviter tubulosa aperte campanulata extus inferne parce 
lanuginosa 5-6-loba, lobis rotundatis marginibus undulatis, staminibus 
10-12, filamentis leviter declinatis basin versus pilosis, ovario oblongo- 
ovoideo 5-loculari dense lepidoto, stylo gracili glabro, stigmate capitato. 
R. ciliicalyx, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii, (1886) p. 233, 
Hemst, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 21, 
The plant here figured is closely allied to the Indian 
Rh. formosum, Wall, (see tab. 4457), and may indeed have 
to be considered as a form of that plant. In the absence 
of fruit, however, it would be premature to pronounce 
upon a species established by so excellent a botanist as the 
late Mr. Franchet. The most prominent characters of 
R. ciliicalyx, as distinguished from I. formoswm, are, its 
robust habit, larger flowers, and the long bristle-like cilia 
on the lobes of the calyx. Unfortunately the calyx of Mt. 
formosum is an exceedingly variable organ in development, 
and in being glabrous, hairy, or hirsute; and there is 
in the Kew Herbarium a robust form of it, collected by 
Dr. Watt in Muneypore and the Naga Hills, at elevations 
of six thousand to nine thousand feet, and called by 
him BR. Johnstoneanum, in which the calyx is represented 
by a ring of bristles, like those of the calyx-lobes of J. 
cilticalye. 
Rh, ciliicalyxz is a native of the Teechapo mountains of 
Yunnan, near Mo-so-yn, at an altitude of seven thousand 
four hundred feet, where it was discovered by the Abbé 
Delavay, who sent seeds of it to the Jardin des Plantes, 
Jury Ist, 190), 
