long ciliate; lateral nerves 2-3 on each side of the midrib, 
arched, pilose below; veins conspicuous on both sides. 
Flowers solitary, terminating short branchlets; pedicels $- 
3 in. long, glandular-pilose. Calyx 5-partite; segments 
herbaceous, oblong, obtuse, 1-3 in. long, 3-nerved, nerves 
and margins pilose. Corolla carmine purple ; lobes spread- 
ing, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, about 2 in. long and 3 in. broad, 
thinly villous outside. Stamens 10; filaments unequal, 
villous at the base, about 4 in. long; anthers +, in. long, 
glabrous. Ovary ovoid, sparingly pilose; style villous at 
the base ; stigma capitate, shortly 5-lobed. Capsule oblong, 
about 4 in. long.—J. Hurcurnson. 
- Currivation,—This interesting and remarkable Rhodo- 
dendron is not one of the easiest to cultivate in this country, 
and it cannot be accommodated so readily as most of the 
species. It is quite capable of withstanding any degree of 
winter cold it is likely to experience in the British Isles ; 
but it is deciduous and, like many other deciduous plants 
from North Asia, is excited into growth early. In conse- 
quence it is liable to have its young growths injured by 
late spring frosts. Then it is, even more than most species 
of Lhododendron, a moisture-loving plant. At Kew it has 
succeeded best when grown in a mixture of peat and silver 
sand to which a certain spongy consistency has been given 
by adding a little chopped sphagnum. It should be given 
a position where it is shielded from early morning sun in 
spring, though otherwise fully exposed, and where the soil 
is, naturally or artificially, kept always moist. The plant 
from which our figure was prepared is one of a batch raised 
from seeds obtained from the Botanic Garden at St. Peters- 
burg in 1900.—W. J. Bran. 3 
Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 8, pistil:—all enlarged. 
