plant which flowered in the Himalayan house at Kew in 
April, 1911. It was raised from a graft presented by Miss 
A. Mangles, in whose garden at Littleworth there is a large 
bushy specimen of &. Wightii which has long been grown in 
the open. It flowers freely, however, only in certain 
seasons, but it is nevertheless probably quite as hardy as 
the other Sikkim Rhododendrons from the same elevation. 
The flowers are usually of a rather deeper yellow than those 
represented in our plate. Another point in which the plant 
now figured deviates from the figure by Sir J. D. Hooker 
cited above is in more lax inflorescence with longer pedicels. 
In all other respects, however, it agrees well with the 
original illustration. 
Descriprion.—Shrub or small tree; twigs rather stout, 
at first more or less woolly, soon glabrous; bark brown. 
Leaves lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or almost. elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse or subacute and mucronate, base slightly to 
markedly unequal, cuneate or wide-cuneate, or cuneate on 
one side rounded on the other, 31-8 in.-long, 14-3 in. wide, 
coriaceous, green and glabrous above, beneath except on 
the early glabrous midrib woolly with a closely adpressed 
cinnamon-brown tomentum, midrib impressed above, very 
much raised beneath, lateral nerves about 12 on each side 
somewhat sunk above and raised beneath, secondary venation 
slightly sunk above, margin somewhat revolute; petiole 
rather stout, 3-13 in. long. Inflorescence terminal, many- 
flowered, laxly capitate; bracts narrow-oblong, acutely 
acuminate, up to 12 in. long, 2 in. wide, woolly ; pedicels 
usually about 14 in. long, soon glabrous, more or less 
nodding at the apex when the flowers open. Calyz-lobes 
small, glandular. Corolla campanulate, about 1% in. long, 
straw-yellow dotted with deep red; lobes 5, shorter than 
the tube, spreading to recurved, imbricate, emarginate. 
Stamens 10, filaments over 1 in. long, shortly hairy below, 
anthers almost purple, 13 lin. long. Ovary densely woolly, 
10-celled ; style about as long as the corolla, glabrous ; 
stigma capitate, 
Fig. I, portion of the underside of a leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 3 and 4 
stamens; 5, ovary in transverse section; 6, hair from ovary :—all enlarged, 
