360 RHODODENDRONS COLLECTED IN 
resembling the basis of the sori in Ferns, both in texture and colour. 
Inner bud-scales, in growing plants, linear-oblong, much elongated, 
and often of a brilliant scarlet. Leaves 3-53 inches long, and from 
1-13 inches wide; during winter very much curled back, so that the 
edges nearly meet the midrib. Petiole thick and stout, about an inch 
in length, The flower (judging from dead fragments) as large as that 
of R. Thomsoni, to which the species is so much allied; the lobes five, 
deeply bilobed. Stamens ten, smooth; the anthers with oblique pores. 
Corymb ten- to fifteen-flowered; the peduncles reflected. Calyx very 
large, campanulate, coloured, unequally and irregularly five-lobed, the 
two back lobes the largest, all of them shallow ; capsule about an inch 
long, seven- to eight-celled, two-thirds covered by the persistent coria- 
 eeous calyx; capsule light brown, cylindric-ovate, the cells acute, pla- 
cental dissepiments very thick and rounded. Seed lanceolate, light 
brown, with a margin chiefly on one side, and the summit torn into 
several threads. : 
Dedicated to Dr. J oseph Dalton Hooker, who has contributed so eml- 
nently to the illustration of the Rhododendrons of Northern India. 
A very distinct species, but closely allied to R. Thomsoni; distin- 
guished at once by the very different leaves and their peculiarities, as 
well as by the more numerous-flowered corymb. 
11. RHODODENDRON SnrPnuznpnir, Nutt. 
Fruticosum : foliis coriaceis oblongo-ellipticis acutis glabris, subtus con- 
coloribus, basi rotundatis leviter pinnatim nervosis, brevi-petiolatis ; 
calyce ? corolla ? i À 
Has. In Bootan. The capsules are mixed up with those of R. Hooker, 
with which they must have been inextricably blended ; and hence 1t 
-is very probable that they will be found somewhat similar to those 
of that species. It grew therefore with R. eximium, on the Oola 
"Mountain. ! 
The young leaves are beneath of a deep purple-red. The adult 
leaves 3-4 inches long, by about an inch wide, slightly pubescent on 
the underside of the short thick petiole, elliptic-oblong, acute, very 
thick and opaque, beneath slenderly feather-nerved. Buds sharply 
 €onie, and very smooth, the scales green and dilated, ovate. 
"Named in honour of Mr. Henry Shepherd, of the Liverpool Botanic 
