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flowers of both are yet unknown, the specimens having been col- 
lected in the month of December. Mr. Booth supposed, from the 
examination of the buds, that R. Jenkinsii would have yellow flowers ; 
in the present species the bud-scales, in three specimens, are reddish- 
purple, indicating probably a red flower. The leaves are 33—4 inches 
long, about 13 inch wide, pointed, but not acuminate, also less scaly 
beneath. 
** Flowers spreading ; with a short tube. 
15. RHODODENDRON SPARSIFLORUM, Nutt. 
Fruticosum : foliis ovalibus, utrinque obtusis, glabris, apiculatis, brevis- 
sime petiolatis, subtus dense squamosis; floribus subsolitariis ; caly- 
cibus majusculis, laciniis oblongo-ovalibus margine membranaceis ; 
capsulis ovatis, 5—8-locularibus ; seminibus lanceolatis, acuminatis, 
basi obliquis. 
Has. Bootan. According to Mr. Booth, accompanying R. Keysii, and 
growing at the same elevation. 
A shrub, 2-3 feet high. Branches divaricate, the younger ones 
glutinous. Leaves nearly oval, or sometimes obovate, usually obtuse 
at each extremity, 3 inches long by 1$ inch wide; in a young state 
somewhat scaly above, beneath covered with brown scales; uppermost 
leaves nearly sessile. Flowers one or two together. Calyx rather 
large for the flower. (Flower not seen.) Capsule scaly, ovate, acute, 
five- to eight-celled. Seeds lanceolate, acuminate, oblique at the base, 
nearly immarginate, dark brown. Closely allied to R. camelligflorum, 
but different in the foliage: perhaps, however, as supposed by Dr. 
Hooker, nothing more than a variety of that species. Flower-cone 
with the scales partly leafy. 
16. RHODODENDRON CAMELLLEFLORUM, Hook. fil. 
Some variety of this species, with oblong-lanceolate leaves, was found 
by Mr. Booth as an epiphytal shrub in the valley of Lablung. 
Of this species we have living plants, but as yet are unacquainted 
with the flower. A second apparent variety, also living, has a stem 
and foliage almost as robust as R. Jenkinsii, but has not the red twigs 
of that species; with the flower of this we are equally ignorant. 
Ga 17. RHODODENDRON LUCIDUM, Nutt. 
Fruticosum : foliis brevi-petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis nitidis 
