and a half high, the dranches bare of leaves below, and knotted 
where they had been inserted. Leaves crowded towards the 
upper part of the branches, lowermost ones subverticillate, on 
short petioles, obovato-oblong, rather acute, glabrous, nearly co- 
riaceous. Uméel terminal, many-flowered. Peduncles 1-flowered, 
short, with small reddish dracteas at the base, and, as well as 
the very small, shallow, obscurely 5-lobed calyx, lepidote. 
Corolla salver-shaped, white, slightly tinged with rose below 
the limb; the fwbe two inches long, straight, scarcely gibbous 
at the base: the /imd spreading, of five obovate wavy lobes, almost 
exactly equal. Stamens 10. Filaments filiform, downy, as Jong 
as the tube. Anthers red (forming a red eye, as seen at the 
mouth of the white corolla). Ovary oblong-cylindrical, lepidote, 
5-celled, glandular at the base. S*y/e rather shorter than the 
stamens, filiform, downy. Stigma dilated, obtuse, green. 
Curr. Our only knowledge of this very distinct and singular 
species of Rhododendron is from having seen it exhibited during 
the past month at the London flower-shows. Judging from its 
habit and native locality, we infer that it will require to be treated 
as_a warm greenhouse plant, and thrive in a sandy peat 
soil. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Calyx and transverse section of 
the ovary, - 
