Tas. 4859. 
RHODODENDRON krerusvun. 
Blunt-leaved Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcacem.—DrcanpriA MonoGynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON retusum ; fructicosum, ramulis exasperatis, foliis obovato-ob- 
longis coriaceis obtusis retusisve subtus pallidis squamulosis marginibus 
recurvis, floribus umbellis pedunculisque hirsutis, calycibus parvis lobis 5 
brevibus unico longiore pedunculisque hirsutis, corollis infundibuliformi- 
tubulosis coccineis basi ventricosis, staminibus subexsertis, ovario elliptico 
squamuloso. ‘ ta ig Oe 
RHODODENDRON retusum. Bennet in Fi. Jav. p. 88. t. 20. De Cand. Prodr. OF Fx a 
p. 124. ‘ a = 
VireYA retusa. Blum. Bijdr. p. 856. 
A native of high mountains of Western Java, where it was 
first found by Blume; and Dr. Horsfield detected it in the 
island of Sumatra, in 1818, on a journey from Padang to Me- 
nangcabo, in shaded situations about 3000 feet above the ocean. 
It may be considered then a greenhouse plant, and should be 
treated as such. Messrs. Rollisons, of Tooting Nursery, have raised 
it from seeds sent by their collector, Mr. Henschell, from Java, 
and we are indebted to them for the opportunity of figuring it. 
It is truly a lovely plant, of the group of BR. ferrugineum and 3 
hirsutum among European species, and ZR. anthopogon, lepidotum, : 
etc., among Indian species; but in the size and colour of its 
flowers and foliage, handsomer than any of them. The flowers 
approach nearer to scarlet than any other species of the genus. 
It blossomed with Messrs. Rollisons in May. | 
Descr. A shrub a foot to two feet high ; branches woody, “ 
brown in age, rough with minute raised points; less so in the 
cultivated than in the wild state. Zeaves two to two and a half 
inches long, almost sessile, oblong or elliptical-obovate, evergreen, — 
coriaceous, spreading, glabrous, the margins recurved, the apex 
JULY Ist, 1855, wa S. ' 
