than with other species of the genus. At Kew the 
species is evidently perfectly hardy. It passed through 
the winter of 1916-17, notwithstanding the severity of 
the conditions to which it was exposed, with as little 
injury as any Chinese Rhododendron. At Caerhays 
Mr. Williams finds that the flowers have a considerable 
range of colour, the shades varying a good deal in value; 
the form of the blossom varies also in individual plants. 
At Kew it flowers freely, and produces seed from which 
young plants have been raised. The most striking 
feature of R. orevtrephes is, however, the beauty of the 
foliage, due to the bloom on the underside of the leaves. 
In Cornwall, Mr. Williams remarks, the foliage of many 
of his plants is, at a particular stage of growth, among 
the most brilliant of any plant seen in the south-west of 
England, recalling the colour of the leaves of the sea- 
hollies. In the neighbourhood of London this character 
is far less striking. As yet none of the plants in cultivation 
have attained the dimensions noted by Mr. Forrest for 
the wild plant in China. In situations otherwise suitable 
it is best planted on a slope, so that the glaucous hue of 
its young leaves may be seen from below. Asa practical 
point, Mr. Williams observes that rabbits eat this 
Rhododendron more than they do most shrubs. 
Descriprion.— Shrub or, in the wild state, a tree up to 25 ft. high; new 
shoots sparingly beset with peltate glands, in their second year shining, 
glabrous and brownish. Leaves small, wide elliptic, rounded at apex and base, 
and at the apex bluntly mucronate, 1}-1{ in. long, 2-1} in. wide, firmly 
coriaceous, glabrous and tawny green above, beneath glaucous, densely clothed 
with glandular scales, the nerves indistinct ; petiole 3-2 in. long, channelled 
above, transversely rugose beneath, finely and sparingly lepidote or nearly 
glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, about 6-flowered ; pedicels 31-3 in. long, 
sparingly lepidote. Calyx obsolete or very small and with undulate margin, 
sparingly lepidote outside. Corolla usually rose but sometimes variously 
flushed with lilae or lavender, wide funnel-shaped ; tube # in. long, glabrous 
outside, finely puberulous within; lobes 5, spreading, wide ovate-orbicular, 
1 in. long, rounded to the tip. Stamens 10, nearly as long as the corolla; 
filaments unequal, Sparingly pubescent towards the base; anthers ,); in. long, 
yellow. Ovary 5-celled densely lepidote ; ; in. 
long ; stigma 5-lobed, ’ y Jepidote; style exserted, glabrous, over 1} in 
Tas. 8784.—Fig. 1, apex of a leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 8 and 4, stamens; 
5, anther ; 6, ov. , in transverse section eh Galeroad, : ; 
