Tas. 4797. 
RHODODENDRON cirrinvum. 
Citron flowered Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcra.—Dercanpria MoNoGyYnNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.) 
stigmate convexo. 
larger, always acuminated, and beneath densely 
ferruginous scales. The number of stamens 1s con 
in each flower, and those declined, a little mor 
which contrast well with the pale corolla. 
- brown. Leaves on short petioles, spreading, the lar 
ee not more than two inches long, elliptical-oblong, 
AUGUST IsT, 1854. 
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RHODODENDRON citrinum ; pentandrum, foliis oblongo-ellipticis obtusis subtus 
pallidis punctato-squamulosis obscure venosis, squamulis concoloribus, flori- 
bus subumbellatis nutantibus, calycis minuti lobis subrotundis ciliato-glan- 
dulosis, corollis (citrinis) parvis campanulatis, limbi lobis eequalibus suberec- 
tis retusis, staminibus tubo corolle vix longioribus, ovario oblongo nudo, 
RuHODODENDRON citrinum. Hassk. Cat. Pl. Hort. Bot. Buitenz. p. 161. 
The Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting, have placed before us (May, 
1854) the charming shrub here figured, a pale lemon-flowered 
species of Rhododendron from Java, sent by their collector, Mr. 
Henshall. It was supposed to have been a new species, and in 
that case would have borne the name of the discoverer; but it 
is clearly the R. citrinum of Hasskarl, in his Cat. of the Bot. 
Garden of Buitenzorg, Java. In that island, the author tells us, it 
inhabits trunks of old trees in marshy mountains of Tjiburrum, 
5000 feet above the sea-level. Mr. Henshall traced it up to an 
elevation of 9700 feet, but no higher. Its nearest affinity 1s 
with what we take to be R. album of Java; but, independent of 
this difference in the colour of the flowers, the leaves are much 
clothed with 
e than half the 
length of the corolla: they bear deep orange-coloured anthers, 
Duscr. This plant forms a small, handsome, evergreen, green- 
house shrué, with glabrous green, terete branches, tinged with 
gest of them 
obtuse, gla- 
