Rhododendron.] Lem, ERICACERZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 475 
A shrub, 4 ft., branchlets scaly. Leaves 2} by 2 in., base broadly rhomboid, 
obscurely glandular- -punctate above; petiole E in. Pedicels 1-1 in.; bracts ł in., 
ovate, pubescent, Corolla-tube i in. Stamens 10 or 8; filaments sparsely pilose. 
Ovary 5-celled, scaly as is the lower portion of the style. Capsule A by 3 in. Seeds 
oblong ; testa produced into a tail at each end shorter than the seed. 
SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. 
44. R. puoranicum, Clarke; leaves oblong or elliptic obtuse with a mucro or 
acute glabrous sparsely scaly beneath, flowers and fruit unknown. 
Buoran ; Booth. 
Leaves 5 by 14 in. base cuneate or rhomboid, much resembling those of R. 
Maddeni but the glands beneath are sparsely scattered. Flower-scales in large ter- 
minal cones, very much larger than those of R. cinnabarinum or R. Keysii, broadly 
obovate, glabrous, scarcely scarious towards the margin, but fringed densely with 
brilliantly white soft hairs; in R. Maddeni the flower-scales have the margins 
scarious not fringed.—' These shoots represent possibly the species referred to by Nuttall 
(in Hook. Kew Journ. v. (1853) 363) as a second variety of R. conditur “with 
foliage almost as robust as R. Jenkinsi.” 
45. R. Pamsun, Clarke; leaves elliptic narrowed at the base glabrous finely 
reticulated beneath without glands, petioles with loose ferruginous wool sometimes 
continued up the midrib beneath, 
Moart ; Moolee, alt. 6000 ft., Parish, n. 1021. 
Branchlet stout with some ferruginous wool towards the extremity. Leaves 3} by 
1} in., subobtuse with a very short point, of a rich brown colour; petiole 3-2 in 
Flowers and capsules unknown. 
46. R. cm, Nutt. in Hook, Kew Journ. v. (1853) 363; shrubby, leaves 
short-petioled oblong-lanceolate acute shining base cuneate glaucous and scaly be- 
neath, flowers subsolitary, calyx-lobes somewhat large oblong-ovate obtuse glabrous, 
capsules ovate acute 5-8-celled, 
Mrs. of Euoran; beyond the Bhorelli, Booth. 
Hardly distinguishable from R. Jenkinsii by the leaves, though very distinct in 
the inflorescence, which approaches nearer that of R. camellieflorum. Flowers not seen 
(Nuttall). 
9. PYROLA, Linn. 
Perennial, glabrous herbs, with short leafy stems and erect annual simple 
scapes. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, persistent, entire or nearly so. Flowers 
in simple racemes, cernuous, white or rose; pedicels l-bracteate. Calyx deeply 
5-lobed, persistent. Petals 5, concave, sessile, deciduous. Stamens 10, hypogy- 
nous; filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers incompletely 4-celled, dehiscing by 
2 terminal pores. Ovary subglobose, 5-celled ; style straight declinate or curved, 
linear or thickened upwards, top truncate with a 5-lobed stigma; ovules very 
many in each cell. Capsule subglobose, depressed, pentagonal, 5-celled, loculi- 
cidally 5-valved from the base, crowned by the persistent style. Seeds minute ; 
testa lax, produced at both ends.—Species 15, in temperate northern regions. 
P. rotundifolia, Linn.; leaves orbicular or broadly-ovate or -obovate 
or elliptie, petiole about equalling the blade, calyx-segments broadly ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, style equalling or longer than the petals declinate, stigmatic 
lobes erect or spreading. 
org. Western and Eastern HrMALAYA, and the Khasia Mts.—Distris. Europe, 
N. Asia and N. America. 
Glabrous. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., narrowed into the petiole, quite or nearly entire, 
coriaceous, obtuse or subacute. Scape 6-8 in.; raceme many-fld. Stamens ascending, 
