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Tas. 4648. 
RHODODENDRON ciuiatum; B. roseo-album. 
Fringed Rhododendron ; rose-white variety. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcace#.—DrcaNnpRIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON ciliatum; ramulis pedunculis pedicellisque piloso-hispidis, 
foliis elliptico-oblongis subcoriaceis acutis ferrugineo-pilosis ciliatis demum 
glabratis subtus lepidotis, pedunculis terminalibus umbellatis 2-6, calycis 
pilosissimi lobis amplis ovato-rotundatis subfoliaceis, corolle campanulatee 
tubo inferne angustato limbo amplo 5-lobo, filamentis (10) basi pilosis, 
stylo gracili, capsula brevi crassa calyce duplo, longiore 5-loculari infra 
apicem contracta. 
RuopOpENDRON ciliatum. Hook. fil. Rhod. of Sikkim-Himal. p. 26. t. 24. 
8. floribus majoribus, corollis albis roseo-tinctis. (Tas. Nostr. 4648.) 
It is scarcely two years since the seeds of this Rhododendron 
were received from Dr. Hooker, and already (March 7, 1852) 
six plants of it have produced flowers while only seven inches 
high, and many others are showing blossoms. Their flowering 
has given us peculiar pleasure, as the first of the Sikkim- 
Himalayan Rhododendrons which have done so; and on another 
account. From more than one quarter hints have been thrown 
out that the author of the work above cited has used some 
freedom in going beyond nature in the size and colouring of the 
flowers. Such gratuitous statements, from very incompetent 
judges, are contradicted by the first species that has blossomed ; 
for assuredly our cultivated 2. ciliatwm far excels in size of the 
corolla, and delicacy of tint, Dr. Hooker’s original figure. Even 
were the reverse the case, it would be no proof of any inaccuracy 
in Dr. Hooker’s figures, for no intelligent traveller in Sikkim 
can fail to observe how liable the flowers of all the species of 
Rhododendron are to vary in size and colour (nor are the leaves 
more constant): in the present instance the difference is so 
great, though there cannot be a question of the identity of 
MAY Isr, 1852., 
