TAB. 8620. 
RHODODENDRON CONCINNUM. 
Western China. 
Ericacear. Tribe Ruoporear. 
Ruopoprenpron, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 599. 
Rhododendron concinnum, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxvi. p. 21 | 
(1889); Hemsl. et E. H. Wilson in Kew Bull. 1910, p. 115; Rehder et 
EH. H. Wilson in Sargent, Plant. Wilson. pars 8, p. 522; species foliis 
conspicue mucronatis subtus densissime lepidotis, calycis lobis polymorphis 
- distincta, 
Frutex ; ramuli annotini sicco brunnei, nitidi, glabri, hornotini pallidi, glandulis 
subglobosis parce induti. Folia late lanceolata vel elliptico-lanceolata, 
basi obtusa vel rotundata, apice conspicue et abrupte mucronata, 3-8 cm. 
longa, 1°5-3 em. lata, coriacea, supra glandulis subsparsis nigrescentibus 
induta, conspicue verrucosa, infra glandulis fulvidis numerosissimis et 
nigrescentibus paucis densissime induta; costa straminea, supra minute 
puberula, infra elevata, glandulis exceptis glabra, basi circiter 1°25 mm. 
lata, ad laminae apicem valde attenuata; nervi laterales utrinsecus circiter 
12, supra lati et distincti, intra marginem conjuncti, a costa sub angulo 
45° abeuntes, infra vix evidentes; petioli 0-5-1 em. longi, glandulosi. 
Flores terminales, subumbellati, umbellis plerumque 5-floris; perulae 
sicco brunneae, ovatae vel oblongo-ovatae, subapiculatae, 3-8 mm. longae, 
3-4 mm. latae, ciliolatae, extra parce glanduloso-lepidotae ; pedicelli 1-5- 
2 cm. longi, subgraciles, glandulis sessilibus semi-induti. Calyz brevissimus, 
plerumque undulatus, lepidotus. Corolla carminea, late infundibuliformis ; 
tubus 1°5 cm. longus, extra parce lepidotus, intra minute puberulis ; lobi 5, 
ovati vel oblongo-ovati, apice rotundati, usque ad 2 cm. longi et 1°5 em. 
lati, glabri. Stamina 10, exserta, inaequalia; filamenta ad 2°5 cm. longa, 
in parte breve inferiore ima basi excepta villosula; antherae ochraceae, 
2mm. longae. Ovariwm 5-loculare, oblongum, 4 mm. longum, densissime 
lepidotum, apice et basi brevissime pubescens ; stylus longe exsertus, 
stamina superans, curvatus, 2°5-8 cm. longus, purpureus, glaber, stigmate 
capitato atropurpureo coronatus. Fructus cylindricus,:1°5 em. longus, 
0°5 cm. crassus, lepidotus, stylo persistente coronatus.—R. yanthinum, 
Bur. et Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vol. v. p. 94 (1891) ; Rehder et E. H. 
Wilson in Sargent, Plant. Wilson. pars 3, p. 518, partim. R. Benthami- 
anum, Hemsl. in Kew Bull. 1907, p. 319, non in Gard. Chron. .1910, 
vol. xlvii. p. 4. R. coombense, Hems). in Bot. Mag. t. 8280 (1909).— 
J. Hurcuryson. 
Among the many novelties from China which have 
enriched European gardens during the past decade none 
have been more striking than the members of the genus 
Rhododendron. The illustrations of such of these as 
have been described in this work afford but an imperfect 
idea of their variety and beauty. As experience of the 
Juny, 1915, 
