suredly a variable one, and neither of the figures in the ‘ Rho- 
dodendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya’ (under the names of &. cin- 
nabarinum and FR. Roylei), Dr. Hooker says, “ gives a good idea 
of the plant, which forms a rather elegant bush, about eight feet 
high, conspicuous in May and June from its elegant blossoms, 
which form very loose and graceful heads of long pendulous 
flowers. ‘The figures are from stunted specimens, in very ex- 
posed situations; the leaves are not usually reticulated, except 
under these circumstances. It is universally considered poison- 
ous to cattle and goats; of the latter I have seen many die from 
eating either of this or of a species of Andromeda. If employed 
as oes the smoke causes the eyes to inflame and the cheeks to 
swell. 
Descr. A shrub, with erect or moderately patent branches. 
Our plants have not as yet attained a greater height than 24 
feet; bark reddish-brown. eaves usually broad, lanceolate, 
but sometimes nearly elliptical, subcoriaceous, acute and mucro- 
nated, on short yetioles, penninerved, the margins recurved, 
full green and naked above, pale and often glaucous green be- 
neath, sometimes rusty, dotted with minute scales, which vary 
in colour, brown or pale green. FVowers in an irregular wmdel 
or cyme, terminal, at first scaly, with large imbricated bracteal 
scales. Calyw usually of five, short, nearly equal, oval or rounded, 
very obtuse lobes, scaly on the outside, one (the largest) some- 
times setigerous; or the lobes are longer and narrower, with one 
lobe (upper one) a good deal longer than the rest. Corolla, in 
our variety, full rose-colour, between infundibuliform and cam- 
panulate, the limb broad, spreading, the lobes subrotund, more 
or less acute, the upper one within (at the faux) dotted with nu- 
merous sanguincous spots. Stamens 10, deflexed, unequal, 
shorter than the corolla. Filaments villous at the base. Anthers 
dark purple. Ovary oblong, very scaly. Style as long as the 
longest stamen. Stigma dite. © age ‘ 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. Section of ovary :—magnified. 
