former by the strikingly spotted flowers and the hirsute 

 style. The material for our plate has been obtained 

 from a plant raised at Kew from seeds received from the 

 Arnold Arboretum early in 1909. This plant flowered 

 for the first time four years later, in April, 1913. It 

 appears to be perfectly hardy and thrives well in sandy 

 loam and peat. Like its allies among the scaly-leaved 

 Khododendrons it can be increased by cuttings placed in 

 gentle heat about the middle of August. 



Description -Shrub, sparingly branched; voung 

 shoots leafy slender, sparingly scaly towards the top! 

 bark brown finely warted longitudinally. Leaves oblan- 

 ceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, bluntly mucronate, cune- 

 ately narrowed at the base, 1-2 in. long, X-4 in. wide 

 thinly coriaceous, margin finely crenulate, beset on both 

 surfaces with very small discrete golden glands, otherwise 

 glabrous; midrib raised beneath; lateral ner e ™ 

 each side slightly raised above, distinct beneath ; petiole 



Ja7hPr'flrt n ^ Spar K n lf- SCaly ' Fl0Wers 9 " 10 in a terminal 

 rather flat corymb 3i in. across; pedicels slender 1-* in 



r?/ T? 1 ^ glandular. Calyx very short witli a 



tX ^T d Sp ° ts Wlthin on the upper portion- 



JSLS^Jl^?' ntl° Ut * "• ^ ^b?o P us ZZi 

 the Z * m' S t ° bl0 , Dg ^ ?™te-oblong, rounded at 

 ^feliwi ? g ' a K° Ut * in ' Wide « &™™* 10, far 



^SoS^ °f alm ° St 8 lagrOUS d0wn " 



3, St\B8s!f s:rSr m of tL Ieaf : % n rt ™ ° f iower -*- <* ■ « ■ 



section of ovary ;- a ll enlarged ^ '' 5 and 6 ' stamens I ?> transverse 



