three lines long, four lines broad, petioled, divaricated, 

 elliptical, veinless, reflexed at the edges, dark green above, 

 paler and at last yellowish beneath, thickly sprinkled on 

 both sides with hollow dots, which are covered with an 

 umbilicated, persisting, yellowish scale, obscurely chan- 

 nelled along the middle rib, which is somewhat prominent 

 behind. Flowers terminal, umbellate, about five or six in 

 the umbel, of which three expand at a time, surrounded 

 with large, concave, imbricated, brown, dotted scales or 

 bracteas. Peduncles as long as the bracteas, round, dotted. 

 Calyx small, five-toothed, blunt, ciliated, thickly covered 

 with yellow scales. Corolla (three-fourths of an inch across,) 

 crimson, rotato-funnel-shaped, five-cleft, segments blunt, 

 unequal, waved, the throat hairy and nectariferous, nectari- 

 ferous pore very indistinct. Stamens five to eight, equal in 

 length to the corolla, scarcely declined ; filaments adhering 

 to the base of the germen, of the same colour as the corolla, 

 hairy near their base ; anthers brown, attached by the back, 

 bilocular, each cell depressed in the middle as by a longi- 

 tudinal suture, but bursting by a pore at its upper extre- 

 mity ; pollen yellow. Stigma red-brown, capitate, five- 

 lobed, lobes depressed. Style round, red, glabrous, longer 

 than the stamens, once or twice geniculated. Germen 

 green, thickly covered with yellow scales, similar to those 

 on the calyx, conical, obscurely five-lobed, ciliated round 

 the base of the style, five-celled ; placentae linear, extend- 

 ing to the parietes, covered with innumerable ovules. 



The enterprise of Mr. Cunningham has been rewarded by 

 having first in Britain brought into flower Andromeda 

 hypnoides * and Rhododendron Lapponicum. These two 

 interesting plants may be seen under the same hand-glass, 

 in the nursery at Comely Bank, near Edinburgh : they were 

 both brought from Canada by Mr. Blair, in 1825. The 

 subject of the present description flowered in July, 1830. 

 Graham. 



Rhododendron Lapponicum inhabits the alpine ridges of 

 the low grounds in the extreme Arctic regions of Europe, 

 Asia, and America. The bruised leaves are fragrant, yield- 

 ing a smell, which Pallas compares to that of Turpentine. 

 The flowers are exceedingly beautiful. 



Figured at Tab. 2936 of this work. 



Fife. 1. Flower, with its Bracteas. 2. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 3. 

 Anther. 4. Germen. 5. Upper, and 6, Under side of a leaf: — more or less 

 magnified. 



