Tas. 7301, 
RHODODENDRON RACEMOSUM. 
Native of Western China. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcacex.—Tribe RuoporEx. 
‘Genus RaopopEnpnon, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 599.) 
RxopopENDRON racemosum; fruticulus erectus, ramulis hornotinis subsca- 
bride glandulosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis obovatisve obtusis 
basi rotundatis cuneatisve, supra glabris subtus glaucis confertim 
lepidotis, floribusin corymbos subterminales dispositis, gemmarum bracteis 
ochraceo-fuscis extimis oblongis intimis linearibus, pedicellis flores 
parvos nutantes subsequantibus, calycis minuti lobis erectis rotundatis, 
corolla tubuloso-campanulata rosea, lobis oblongis patentibus obtusis, 
staminibus 10 exsertis filamentis infra medium villosis, antheris brevi- 
bus, ovario 5-loculari dense lepidoto, stylo elongato basi subpiloso. 
R. racemosum, Franch in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxiii. (1886), p. 235. Hemsl. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889), p. 29. Garden and Forest. vol. v. 
(1892), p. 222; W. Watson, in “ The Garden,” vol. xlii. (1892), p. 311. 
The figure here given is that of the true R. racemosum, | 
and it precisely corresponds with specimens of the wild 
plant in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, communi- 
cated from the Jardin des Plantes, by M. Franchet, the 
author of the species. It also accords, as Mr. Watson 
informs me, with plants grown under this name by Messrs. 
Veitch, who received them from the Jardin de Plantes, 
where they were raised from seed collected by Father 
Delavay, S.J., in China, but not well with the figure in 
“The Garden,” which represents a robust plant with leaves 
one and a half to one and three-quarters inches long, and 
flowers one to one and a quarter inches diameter. 
_ Under Tab. 7159 of this work I have made a few observa- 
_ tions on the immense accessions to the genus Rhododendron, 
_ accruing from the travels of collectors in the mountainous 
regions of Western China. JR. racemosum is one of them ; 
_ it was discovered in the mountains of the Province of 
unnan, at elevations of eight thousand to ten thousand 
June Ist, 1893, 
