410 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Rhododendron. 
sible, and rather the largest. Filaments ten, shorter than 
the corol, unequal, declining. Anthers open with two 
pores at the top. Germ superior, ovate-oblong, serice- 
ous, ten-grooved, ten-celled. Style longer than the sta- 
mina, curved. Stigma large, infundibuliform, with a ten- 
notched margin. Capsule linear-oblong, pretty smooth, 
and void of pubescence, ten-celled, ten-valved. Recep- 
tacles very thin, vertically attached to the axis, and pro- 
jecting far into the valves. Seeds numerous, minute, 
somewhat winged. 
Colonel Hardwicke informs us that the wood is in es- 
timation among the natives, for making gun stocks, one 
stocks of their match-lock pieces. cil 
To introduce this beautiful tree in the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta, many attempts have in vain been made; ‘the 
seeds are exceedingly minute, and have always proved 
abortive. 
Dr. Rutherford, of Mooradabad, who has just sett 
me seed and specimens, writes that he had at last pene 
trated to the second range of Hills in the neighbourhood 
of Chipea, and there had an opportunity of seeing this 
most lovely of all trees in its glory, and says, “ 02 the 
“leaves of the accompanying specimens, you will observe 
“a substance encrusted like sugar, or honey. [was 
“much struck with this appearance, for the trees td 
“which it was first observed, glistened in the sun asi 
“they had been just moistened with rain, and my sut- 
“prise was not a little encreased when I discov 
“ that this substance was sweet as the most delicious ho- 
‘“‘ney, It existed in various degrees of density, from 
“ thinest varnish, to a crust of several lines in thickness + 
“while from some leaves it hung in drops, that wer? 
“sometimes soft and pellucid, at others opaque and s- 
_ “iid like candied sugar ; what is remarkable, the’ south- 
“ern face of the trees only presented this appearance, — 
“nor was’ it observed’ = but those at the very sum 
