DOD p NDRON Mappeni. 
Major Mailiden’s Rhododendron. 
7 ee 
Nat, Ord. Ertcacrm@.—DeEcanpria Monoeynia. — 
“ere 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAs, 4836.) 
RnopopEnDRoN Maddeni; fratex erectus virgatns, ramulis pedunculis petiolis 
foliisque subtus ferrugineo-lepidotis, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis 
utrinque acutis acuminatisve marginibus planis superne nitidis viridibus, 
pedunculis 3 terminalibus brevibus crassis, calycis brevis 5-fidi lobis in- 
eequalibus (supremo nunc elongato), corolla extus lepidota ampla, tubo elon- 
gato infundibuliformi, limbi patentissimi lobis maximis rotundatis integris, : 
staminibus 18-20, filamentis glabris, stylo longissimo ovarioque lepidotis, 
capsula 10-loculari lignosa. 
RHODODENDRON Maddeni. Hook. fil. Rhod. Sik. Himal. p.19.t.18. Journ. 
of Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 7. p. 19 et 95. eet 
Ge terhaps the noblest of the 
ich rewarded Dr. Hooker’s researches 
in Northern India. Its flowers are nearly as large as in that 
species, fragrant, very much in general form and size resembling 
the white Day Lily (Zilivm candidum), but the corolla is deli- 
cately tinged with rose. Fine as is the original figure of the 
author above quoted, it is quite equalled by our flowering spe- 
cimens at Kew, which were in perfection in May and June of 
1854, in a cool and shaded greenhouse. The large delicate 
flowers contrast well with the ample dark-green foliage, which is 
rusty beneath, and has deep red petioles. It is a rare species 
in its native mountains, only found in the inner ranges of Sik- 
kim-Himalaya, in thickets by the Lachen and Lachoong rivers, 
at Choongtam, at an elevation of 6000 feet above the level of 
the sea. We cannot venture to consider it a hardy plant. The 
species, Dr. Hooker says, “is named in compliment to Major 
Madden, of the Bengal Civil Service,—a good and accomplished 
botanist, to whose learned memoirs on the plants of the tem- 
perate and tropical zones of North-west Himalaya the reader 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1854. : 
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