Tas. 4802. 
RHODODENDRON teprporum; 
var. CHLORANTHUM. 
Scaly Rhododendron ; yellow-green-fowered var. 
Nat. Ord. Erice2.—Drcanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Ohar. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Jepidotum; fruticulus ramosus, totus lepidotus, squamulis al- 
bidis ferrugineisve, foliis obovatis lanceolatis oblongisve apiculatis breve 
petiolatis pallide viridibus, pedunculis terminalibus solitariis 2-3-misve erec- 
tis, sepalis 5 foliaceis obtusis, corolle flavidee v. purpurea tubo brevi in- 
flato, 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. 
RHODODENDRON lepidotum. Wall. Cat. n. 758. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4657. 
Var. chloranthum ; floribus flavo-viridibus viridi-maculatis. 
RHODODENDRON salignum. Hook. fil. Sikkim Rhod. t. 23, left-hand figure. 
This variety of R. lepidotum was detected by Dr. Hooker in 
Sikkim Himalaya, and at first considered a new species, to which 
he gave the name of salignum. Afterwards he saw the propriety 
of uniting it with the 2. eleagnoides, and that again with Z. 
lepidotum, of which it is assuredly a variety. The species has 
been already fully described at our Tab. 4657. Our var. chloran- 
thum flowered with us this year readily in May in a cool frame. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary :— 
magnified, 
AuGuUST Ist, 1854. 
