Tap. 8492. 
RHODODENDRON Wicutn. 
— 
Sikkim Himalaya. 
Ericackaz. Tribe RHopoREAE. 
RHODODENDRON, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599. 
Rhododendron Wightii, Hook. f. Rhod. Sikkim Himalaua, p. 80, t. xxvii.; 
C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 467; Watson in Gard. 
Chron. 1911, vol. 1. p. 268, fig. 121; Smith in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. vol. v. 
p. 216; a R. campylocarpo, Hook. f., foliis majoribus basi angustioribus 
facile distinguendum. 
Arbuscula ramulis satis crassis primo plus minusve lanatis mox _glabris 
brunneo-corticatis. Folia lanceolata, elliptico-lanceolata vel fere elliptico- 
oblonga, apice obtusa vel subacuta, mucronata, basi valde vel vix inaequi- 
latera, cuneata vel late cuneata vel latere altero rotundata altero cuneata, 
8°5-20 cm. longa, 3-5-8 em. lata, coriacea, supra glabra, viridia, subtus 
costa mox glabra excepta arcte adpresse cinnamomeo-lanata, costa supra 
impressa subtus valde prominente, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 
12 pagina superiore -impressis inferiore prominentibus nervulis supra 
parum immersis, margine parum revoluta ; petiolus satis crassus, 1*2-4 cm. 
longus. IJnflorescentia terminalis, multiflora, laxe capitata; bracteae anguste 
oblongae, acute acuminatae, ad 4°3 cm. longae et 1 cm. latae, sericeae ; 
pedicelli plerumque circiter 8 cm. longi, mox glabri, apicem versus sub 
anthesin plus minusve cernui. Calycis lobi parvi, glandulosi. Corolla 
campanulata, circiter 4°2 em. longa, straminea, sanguineo-notata ; lobi 5, 
limbo circiter dimidio breviores, patente-recurvi, imbricati, emarginati. 
Stamina 10, filamentis ad 2-9 em. longis inferne breviter pilosis, antheris 
subpurpureis 3°5 mm. longis. Ovarium dense lanatum; 10-loculare; stylus 
corollae subaequilongus, glaber, stigmate capitato.—W. G. Crat. 
The handsome Himalayan Rhododendron which forms 
the subject of our illustration, though it has Jong been in 
cultivation in this country, does not appear ever to have 
been common in collections. In certain parts of Sikkim it 
seems to be plentiful, and in his original description Sir 
J.D. Hooker speaks of the species as abundant in the wooded 
valleys and on the spurs of all the mountains at an elevation 
of 12-14,000 feet above sea-level. It is not, however, 
abundant in all the valleys of Sikkim at this elevation, 
though it probably is so in most of those explored by 
Hooker, and as regards the valley of the Zemu, a tributary 
of the Tista, Hooker’s account is fully confirmed by recent. 
travellers, The figure here given was prepared from a 
May, 1913. 
