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The Dictionary of Gardening 



Bilxododendron — continued. 



1886. R. Aucklandii is one of the parents, and a garden hybrid 

 the other. 



A. znnltioolor (many-coloured), Jl. few, horizontal, in terminal 

 umbels ; calyx minute ; corolla dark red or bright yellow, lin. 

 long, between funnel- and bell-shaped, the five lobes equal, 

 one-third the length of the tube. Winter. L whorled, three 

 to seven together, 2in, to 3in. long, Jin. to |in. broad, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, contracted into the short 

 petioles, dull green above, paler beneath, Sumatra. A small, 



Rhododendron — continued, 



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corolla campanulate, about liin. long, obtusely five-lobed. 

 L ^m, long, coriaceous, evergreen, oblong, rather obtuse at 

 apex, cuneate at base, the margins revolute, glabrous above, 

 beneath (as well as on the petioles, peduncles, and pedicels) 

 densely white-floccose-tomentose. Caucasus, 1886. A tall shrub. 

 (R. G. 1226, f. 2, d-g.) 



R. Ungerni (Baron TJngern-Sternberg's). /, white, corymbose- 

 umbellate ; calyx small, five-parted, the segments elongated ; 

 corolla campanulate, obtusely five-lobed, the lobes reddish on 



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glabrous, slender bush. (B. M. 6769.) Syn. R. Curtisii (F. A P. 



1JB84, 615). 



It. roseuxn odoratom (rosy, scented), fi, pale rose-coloured, 

 fragrant, rather small, disposed in good-sized heads. 1886. 

 Garden hybrid. 



K* Sesterianum (Sester's). A white-flowered, garden hybrid, 

 of which R, Edgworthii is one of the parents. 



R. SmirncWi (Smirnow's). /. deep pTirplish-scarlet, corymbose- 

 umbellate ; calyx minute, pelviform, the lobes very short ; 





the back. Z. conaceoua, persistent, oblong, nearly 7in. loner, 

 ^rrowed towards the base cuspidate at apex, glabrous abo"l 

 l^i^^^T^^'^^'^^''^''^^ beneath; petioles as well as the 



r^ o 1 5^7 ''?'^"*''^^t''^^"^^"^- Caucasus. 1886. A tall shrub. 

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^-.yi[*^*f ^.^^°i (Victor's). /. pure white, except the golden- 



hornf^T%l^^^-^""'}f^t^^P^*^ *^^«^ ^ free^ly produced as 



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