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RHODODENDRON MALAYANUM. 
Native of the Malayan Archipelago. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcea.—Tribe RHopoREZ. 
Genus Ruopopenpron, Linn. ; (Maximovicz in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. 
Petersh., vol. xvi. No. 9, p. 18). 
RxopopENDRON malayanum; foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis utrinque 
acutis supra luride viridibus subtus badiis una-cum petiolis pedunculis 
calycibus ovariisque lepidotis, umbellis terminalibus 3-8-floris, pedi- 
cellis brevibus, calyce minute 5-dentato, corolla hypocraterimorpha 
sanguineo- rubra, tubo elongato sulcato lente curvo basi gibbo, limbi 
subequalis lobis parvis rotundatis, staminibus 10, antheris vix exsertis, 
ovario elongato 5-loculari, stigmate obtuso minute 5-lobo incluso. 
RuopopenprRon malayanum, Jack. Mal. Misc., No. 7, p. 17, ea Hook. 
Journ. Bot., vol. i. p. 8369; DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p. 125; Miquel Fi. 
Ind. Bat., vol. ii. p. 1059. 
R. tubiflorum, DC. l.c.; Miquel, lc. et in Ann. Mus, Lugd. Bat., vol. i. 
p. 45, t. ii, A; Vireya tubiflora, Blum. Bijd., p. 855. : 
Dr. William Jack, of the late East India Company's service, 
a very able botanist and author of the “ Malayan Miscellanies, 
was the first to make known this fine plant (in about 1823), 
which he discovered on the summit of Gunong Bunko, a 
remarkably insulated mountain, commonly called by Euro- 
peans the Sugar-loaf, in the interior of Bencoolen, Sumatra. 
Dr. Jack observes of this mountain that, though estimated 
at only 3000 feet in height, the character of its vegetation 1s 
decidedly alpine, a fact which he attributes to the form and 
consequent exposure of its sharp conical peak. Rhododendron 
malayanum has since been gathered repeatedly on Mount 
Ophir, Malacca, at an altitude of 4000 feet. It is clearly 
the same as the Javanese R. tubiflorum ; and the Celebes 
Island R. celebicum differs only in the paler under-surface of 
the leaves. The specimen here figured was obligingly com- 
municated by Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, who received 
JULY Ist, 1873, 
