369 RHODODENDRONS COLLECTED IN 
above R, 4ucklandii, dispersed, and not forming masses, being ap- 
parently a scarce species in this locality, accompanied by Pinus ex- 
celsa, etc. ges 
A fine shrub, 6—7 feet in height; branches covered with a whitish 
shining bark. Young branches thick, succulent, and of a bright red. 
Leaves coriaceous and shining above, oblong-lanceolate and acute, usually 
cuneate below, 4-53 inches long, 1-13 inch wide, beneath at first 
glaucous, but at length brown, from a dense clothing of somewhat re- 
sinous scales ; petioles thick, about three-fourths of an inch long, and 
with the midrib very stout ; lateral vessels or ribs nearly hidden in the 
thick substance of the leaf. Flower-buds large and broad, conic, the 
scales yellow, thick, and dilated, with membranous margins, all of them 
smooth, without any ciliation. Corymb from four- to six- mostly five- 
flowered; peduncles about three-fourths of an inch long, very thick. 
Calyx small, the segments nearly all equal, ovate or oblong, with 
broadish membranaceoùs margins. Corolla not seen. Style about 3 
inches long ; stigma large, ten-lobed ? Capsule about an inch long, 
conic-ovate, woody and stout, very scaly, ten-celled, each of the parti- 
tions of the placental dissepiment longitudinally cleft. Seed dark 
brown, lanceolate, subulately acuminate, oblique and pedicellated at 
the base. 
This species, according to a specimen without flower or fruit, in the 
herbarium of Sir William Hooker, was also found by the late indefati- 
gable Mr. Griffith on the Khasya hills, As a species it is allied to R. 
Maddeni of Dr. Hooker, and these, along with R. sparsiflorum, Nutt., 
R. camelligflorum, Hook. fil., R. lucidum, Nutt., and the following, 
have a very peculiar aspect, all agreeing in their smooth lepidote leaves 
and succulent texure. 
Named in honour of Major Jenkins, of the East India Service, who 
has done so much for the botany of that country. 
14. RHODODENDRON CALOPHYLLUM, Nutt. 
Fruticosum : foliis brevi-petiolatis, oblongo-ovatis, subellipticis, acutis, 
basi subrotundis, subtus glaucis squamosis ; corymbis 4—5-foris ; 
calycis laciniis brevibus, lobis subzequalibus obtusis ; capsulis cylin- 
draceo-ovatis obtusis 10-locularibus. 
Has. In Bootan, with R. Jenkinsii, from which it is perhaps not suf- 
ficiently distinct, though readily distinguished by the eye. The 
