410 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Rhododendroti* 



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. Becep- 

 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, or the 

 stocks of their match-lock pieces. 



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 sent 

 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, " On the 

 " leaves of the accompanying specimens, you will observe 

 " a substance encrusted like sugar, or honey. I was 

 " much struck with this appearance, for the trees on 

 " which it was first observed, glistened in the sun as if 

 " they had been just moistened with rain, and my sur- 

 '' prise was not a little encreased when I discovered 

 " that this substance was sweet as the most delicious ho- 

 *' ney. It existed in various degrees of density, from the 

 " thinest varnish, to a crust of several lines in thickness ; 

 " while from some leaves it hung, in drops, that were 

 " sometimes soft and pellucid, at others opaque and so- 

 " lid like candied sugar ; what is remarkable, the south- 

 '* ern face of the trees only presented this appearance, 

 " nor was it observed in any but those at the very sura- 



