and singularly enough the most aberrant varicty is the 
plant on which I founded the species, namely, that figured 
at t. 10 of “The Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya.” 
This was in truth a starved state of the plant, growing in 
a most bleak situation, on the top of Tonglo, a mountain 
on the Nepal frontier of Sikkim, 10,000 ft. above the Sea, 
and in which the pure white corollas were only 1} in. 
across the mouth ; they had no basal purple spot, but had 
very large dark brown anthers, and a stigma nearly @ 
quarter of an inch in diameter. It was in fact one of the 
first of the Sikkim Rhododendrons that I had seen, and I 
afterwards found it elsewhere in Sikkim abundantly, in the 
condition represented at t. 4924 of this work. 
Of varieties in colour, the most frequent is from white to 
pale lemon-colrd., with or without a deep purple basal 
spot within the corolla, then a very pale rose especially as 
the buds. The fine pink represented in the accompanying 
plate is quite new to me, and may be a characteristic of 
the R. evimium of Nuttall of Bhotan, under which name 
the specimen was sent to Kew by A. O. Walker, Esq., of 
Nant y Glyn, Colwyn Bay, Carnarvonshire. LR. eximium 13, 
I need hardly add, cospecific with Falconeri, differing 1 
the above-mentioned points, also in often bearing the rich 
rusty-brown fluff on the upper surface of the young leaves 
up to their full development.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Outer bracts; 2, floral ditto; 3, ovary style and stigma; 4 and 4, 
anthers :-—Al/ enlarged. 
