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RHODODENDRON Catutrornicum. 
Californian Rhododendron. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcack™.—Dercanpria MonoGyniA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Californicum ; foliis subobovato-ellipticis coriaceis acutis gla- 
bris brevi-petiolatis concoloribus subtus pallidis, umbella terminali multi- 
flora, calycis parvi subpilosi laciniis acutis unica longiore, corolla lato-cam- 
panulata roseo-variegata lobis undulatis intus (tribus superioribus) flavo- 
maculatis, staminibus 10 corolla brevioribus, filamentis basi pubescentibus, 
ovario elliptico appresse piloso-sericeo. 
RHODODENDRON Californicum. Hook. MS. in Herd. 
We have possessed this plant in our Herbarium from the 
mountains of California, and have recognized it as a new species 
ever since Mr. Lobb’s first mission to that region; and on a 
visit, this spring, to Mr. Veitch’s Exotic Nursery, King’s-road, 
Chelsea, we were much struck with the great beauty of living 
flowering plants of the same, exhibiting a richness of colour 
in the varied pale and very deep rose tints of the numerous — 
corollas, of which the large heads are beautifully nestled in an 
involucre, as it were, formed by the handsome green leaves con- 
stituting a dark background to the flowers. Some of these 
plants were exhibited, with many other rarities from the same 
Nursery, at the memorable Flower-show of the Crystal Palace at 
Sydenham of this year (June, 1855), and could not fail to at- 
tract attention, though surrounded by so many other floral beau- 
ties: they were noticed the following week in the ‘ Gardeners’ 
Chronicle,’ among the new plants* exhibited by Mr. Veitch, as 
a “delicate pink kind of Rhododendron, very different in appear- 
ance from those of the eastern mountains of America, or from 
any we have at present in cultivation.” It seems to be a most 
_* One of these novelties was another species of Rhododendron from Borneo, 
with large golden-coloured flowers, R. Brookeanum, which we trust soon to have 
the opportunity of figuring and describing. 
JULY Ist, 1855. 
