Rhododendron. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA: 409. 
umbelets are decompound ; the first rays numerous’; the. 
second dichotomous; and the third many-fold, and short. * 
RHODODENDRON. 
Calyx five-parted. | Corol infunbuliform. Stamina de- 
clined, Capsule five-celled. 
OL. R. puniceum. R. 
Arboreous, Leaves lanceolar, coriaceous, hoary un- 
derneath. .Racemes terminal. Bractes ensiform, serice- 
ous. Corol campanulate ; segments retuse. aan ten-. 
celled, . ce eet 
' Boorans. Hardw. in Trans, Raid: Soc. 6. 359. 
_A large tree, a native of the mountains north of Rohil- 
khund, &e. It flowers in April and ‘May. 
Trunk Soom twenty to thirty feet high, in large trees 
about two feet in diameter. Bark suberous, light, scaling 
off in irregular pieces, of an inch in thickness, and com- 
posed of numerous, reddish cinnamon-coloured lamina of 
about half a line in thickness ; the exterior one of a burnt- 
brown. Branches numerous, very crooked, Leaves al- 
temate, about the ends of the branchlets, short-petioled, 
lanceolate, entire, coriaceous ; smooth above, hoary un- 
derneath ; about six inches long, Stipulesnone. Germs 
terminal, imbricated. Racemes terminal, sessile, subglo- 
bular, much shorter than the leaves, crowded with large, 
beautiful, deep crimson flowers. Bractes; exterior, before 
the flowers expand, imbricated, strobiliform ; large, of a 
‘shape from oval to cuneiform, solitary, one-flowered cloth- 
edon the outside with much, long, beautiful, sericeons, pale 
yellow pubescence ; the inferior two, filiform, inserted on 
Opposite sides of the pedicells near the base, Calyx small, 
unequally five-toothed. Corol campanulate, somewhat 
oblique. Border of five, nearly equal, broad, retuse seg 
‘Ments, the undermost one more highly coho ‘if pos. 
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