122 RHODOREiE. [part i. 



calyx, {d in fig, 57,) and a carapanulate corolla 

 which is deeply five-cleft, the upper segment 

 {e in fig. 58) being somewhat larger than the 

 rest, and spotted in the inside. The capsule is 

 five-celled and five-valved, as shown in^^. 57/^ 



Fig. 58 — Flower of Rhododendron Ponticu.m. 



The leaves of nearly all the species are ever- 

 green ; and the flowers are showy, and produced 

 in terminal corymbs. The principal species may 

 be thus distinguished from each other ; R, 

 maximum has drooping leaves, covered with 

 brown or white down on the under surface, and 

 a dense corymb of flowers, the segments of the 

 corollas of which are roundish, and the bracts 

 leafy. In R. ponticum^ on the contrary, the 

 corymbs of flowers are looser, the segments 



