Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood, where it has thriven well 
under the conditions suitable for other Chinese Rhododen- 
drons. For the material on which our figure has been 
based we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch. 
Description.— Shrub ; twigs stout, up to } in. thick, at 
first green, at length brownish, when young here and there 
beset with short glandular hairs, soon glabrous. Leaves 
oblong, rounded or obtuse at the tip, apiculate, rounded or 
slightly rounded-cordate at the base, up to 3 in. long and 
1¢ in. wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, green above, pale 
beneath, lateral nerves from 13-15 on each side, con- 
Spicuous above and raised beneath, secondary veins and 
fine reticulation conspicuous beneath; petiole stout, chan- 
nelled above, 3-2 in. long. Pedicels 1-2 in. long, sparingly 
beset with short, whitish, thickened hairs. Calyx very 
short, obscurely or shortly toothed. Corolla glabrous; tube 
under 1 in, long, 4 in. wide below, 1} in. wide above; 
limb 7-lobed ; lobes 2 in. long, # in. wide. Stamens 14, the 
longer ones about as long as the corolla-tube; filaments 
white, glabrous; anthers dark brown, Ovary glabrous, 
about } in. long; style } in. longer than the stamens, 
glabrous, 
Fig. 1, bract; 2, calyx and pistil; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, transverse section of 
the ovary :—all enlaryed. 
