Tas. 4657. 
RHODODENDRON tepiporum. 
Scaly Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Exicez.—Drcanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
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RHODODENDRON Jepidotum ; fruticulus ramosus, totus lepidotus, squamulis al- 
bidis ferrugineisve, foliis obovatis lanceolatis oblongisve apiculatis breve 
petiolatis pallide viridibus, pedunculis terminalibus solitariis 2-3-nisve 
erectis, sepalis 5 foliaceis obtusis, corolla flavide y. purpuree tubo brevi 
inflato lobis patentibus late ovatis, staminibus 8 filamentis ciliatis, ovario 
5-loculari, stigmate brevi decurvo. Hook. fil. in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 
v. 7. pp. 80, 104. 
RuopopENpRon lepidotum. Wall. Cat. n. 158. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 8. p. 845. 
De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 124. Royle, Ill. p. 260. t. 64. f. 1. Hook. fil. 
in Sikkim Rhod. Conspect. p. 6. 
RuopopEnpRon eleagnoides et R. salignum. Hook. fil. Sikkim Rhod. t, 23, right 
hand fig. 1, 2, and left hand fig. 1. 
RuopopEnpROoN obovatum. Hook. fil. Sikkim Rhod. Conspect. Spec. p. 6. 
The purple-flowered state of this very variable species of 
Rhododendron blossomed freely in April, 1852, in a cool green- 
house of the Royal Gardens. ‘The seeds were sent from Sikkim- 
Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, under the name of &. eleagnoides, 
and as such this is figured in the work on the Rhododendrons, 
with dark purple flowers, and also with deep.yellow flowers, 
looking like those of some Helianthemum. In that work, how- 
ever, the author alludes to its close affinity, as well as that of 
R. salignum, with the R. lepidotum of Wallich (only known to 
us from dried specimens) ; and a further examination has satis- 
fied him that they and his 2. obovatum can in no way be speci- 
fically distinguished from authentic specimens of /epidotum. He 
has therefore, in the ‘Journal of the Horticultural Society of 
ndon,’ united them. 
“The species abounds,” Dr. Hooker says, “at an elevation of 
JULY Ist, 1852, 
