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RuHODODENDRON CAMPANULATUM. BELL- 
FLOWERED RHODODENDRON. 
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Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal, 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 5-lobus, anthe- 
ris apice biporosis. Caps. 5-locularis, 5-valvis, ab apice 
dehiscens, valvarum marginibus inflexis, dissepimenta for- 
mantibus. Receptaculum centrale. Semina membrana 
involuta. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Ruopopenpron campanulatum ; decandrum, foliis peren- 
nantibus elliptico-oblongis mucronatis subtus ferrugi- 
neis basi subcordatis, corolla campanulata lobis planis 
emarginatis, ovariis 6-locularibus glabris. Don. 
Ruopopenpron campanulatum. Don, in Wern. Trans. v. 
3. p. 410. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. t. Al. Wall. Cat. n. 
"56. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1944. 
This superb plant has, we believe, very rarely produced 
‘ts blossoms in this country. Mr. Francrs Dickson, of the 
Upton and Newton Nursery Grounds near Chester, most 
obligingly communicated the noble specimen here repre- 
sented in the month of April, 1839. The plant from which 
it was cut, that gentleman remarks, ‘“ has stood out of 
doors for the last seven years, and during the unusually 
severe winter of 1838 remained uninjured. In consequence 
of removing to a new Nursery Ground, the plant was lifted 
in November 1838 and placed in a large tub in the green- 
house, where it produced its truly splendid blossoms the 
following 
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