SIRS aaa 
Tas. 4788. 
RHODODENDRON cinnasarinum; var. pallidum. 
Cinnabar-flowered Rhododendron ; pale var. 
Nat. Ord. Ertce#.—DercanprIA Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
_ RuopopEnvRon cinnabarinum ; foliis lato-lanceolatis acutis marginibus revolutis 
brevi-petiolatis supra glabris subtus pallidis rufisve squamuloso-punctatis, 
floribus umbellato-capitatis, lobis calycinis ovalibus oblongisve subineequa- 
libus grosse glanduloso-squamosis, corolle campanulato-infundibuliformis 
lobis rotundatis plerumque acutis, staminibus 10, filamentis basi pilosis 
ovario 5-loculari furfuraceo. 
a; foliis minute reticulatis subtus ferrugineo-squamulosis, calycis lobis angustis 
valde inzequalibus, corolla (cinnabarinz) lobis acutis. 
RHODODENDRON cinnabarinum. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. t. 8; et in Journ. 
of Hort. Soc. v. 1. p. 101. 
8; foliis latioribus subtus omnino ferrugineis, lobis calycinis obtusis subsequali- 
bus, corollis intense roseis. 
RuopopEnDRON Roylei, Hook. Rhod. Sik. Himal. t. 7. 
Var. foliis subtus glaucis, lobis calycinis subsqualibus obtusis, corollis pallidis, 
fauce supra sanguineo-irrorata. (Tas. Nostr. 4788.) 
Already, since the publication of the two species above quoted 
in Dr. Hooker’s ‘Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya,’ that author 
has felt it right to consider them mere varieties of one and the 
same species; and now we have in cultivation at the Royal Gar- 
dens of Kew what he considers a third variety, with leaves, in 
shape, resembling those of the original type of 2. cianabarinum, 
but pale-coloured beneath, with a calyx resembling that of the 
R. Roylei, and corollas paler than either of those two kinds, and 
having the faux above sprinkled with dark sangumneous dots. 
This produced its blossoms in a cool greenhouse in the early part 
of May of the present year 1854. The species 1s a native of 
Eastern Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan, in valleys and on the tops 
of mouitains in very damp regions, and at elevations above the 
sea-level of from 10,000 to 12,000 feet. The species 1s as- 
JUNE Ist, 1854, 
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