Tas. 8326. 
RHODODENDRON rravipum. 
Western China. 
EricaceaE. Tribe RuoporEaz. : 
RHODODENDRON, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599. 
Rhododendron (Osmothamnus) flavidum, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vol. ix, 
(1895), p. 895; inter species in hortis europaeis cultis 2. lepidoto, Wall., 
affinis ; ab eo tamen differt imprimis floribus brevissime pedicellatis. 
Fruticulus_45-60 cm. altus, praeter corollam fere undique pulchre lepidotus, 
dense ramosus, ramis tenuibus. Jolia conferta, imbricata, coriacea, 
persistentia; lamina ovato-oblonga, 1-2 em. longa, abrupte apiculata, basi 
rotundata, concavo-convexa, margine recurva, utrinque creberrime lepidota, 
supra atroviridis, inter lepides nitida, canaliculata, subtus pallida ; petiolus 
~3 mm. longus. Flores 3-5, flavi, in ramorum apicibus pedicellati, 
pedicellis 4-7 mm. longis arcte recurvis. Calyx subbilabiatus, herbaceus; 
lobi leviter inaequales, ovati, 4-6 mm. longi, acute acuminati, demum 
recurvi. Corol/a fere regularis, subrotata, circiter 3 cm. diametro, haud 
lepidota, lobis rotundatis undulatis, fauce villosula. Stamina 10, quam 
corolla breviora, filamentis paulo supra basin et infra medium incrassatis 
ilosulis. Ovarium 5-loculare, densissime lepidotum; stylus cum ovario 
46-17 mm. longus, infra medium puberulus. Capsu/a nondum nota.— 
R. primulinum, Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1910, vol. xlvii. p. 4.—W. Borrme 
HEMSLEY. 
The pretty little Rhododendron which is here figured 
is one of the many novelties for the introduction of which 
horticulture has to thank Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, who 
raised plants from seeds secured on their behalf in Western 
China by Mr. E. H. Wilson. Some of these plants flowered 
with Messrs. Veitch in their nursery at Coombe Wood in 
_ April 1909, when the material from which our illustration 
has been prepared was communicated. It happens that this 
is one of the few species obtained by Mr. Wilson, whereof 
there are no specimens in the herbarium collection at Kew 
that correspond with the field-number accompanying the 
.seeds, so that nothing is yet known as to the appearance of 
the fruit. The plants themselves grow well at Coombe 
Wood in the open ground and without artificial protection, 
under the conditions suitable to most other species of the 
genus. When the earliest flowering shoots produced in 
this country became available they appeared to justify the 
Jozy, 1910. 
