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109, as to the Kiangsi plant. — Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PL Wilson. I. 



541 (1914).— Millais, Rhodod. 169 (1917); n. 144 (1924). 



Hush 2-6 m. tall with stout glabrous branches ])rui l nose the first year. 

 Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 7.5-20 cm., usually 11-18 

 cm. long, 3-7 cm., usually 3.5-6 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded, usually 

 apiculate, base rounded, often sub-cordate, sometimes abruptly narrowed 

 and short-cuneate, dark green above, pallid below costa very prominent 

 on under surface, secondary veins ascending-spreading; petiole stout, 

 glabrous, often pruinose on upper side, 2-3 cm. long. Flowers fragrant, 

 6-12 or more, racemose-corymbose, forming a broad dome-shaped 

 truss; rliachis stout, 3.5-6 cm. long, glabrous, sometimes sparsely short- 

 stipitate-glandular; calyx oblique, annular, minutely toothed, glabrous; 

 corolla pink, wide-funnelform-campanulate, 4-7 cm. long and broad, 

 7-lobed, lobes spreading, rounded or truncate, often emarginate; stamens 

 12-16, of very unequal length, half to two-thirds length of corolla, fila- 

 ments slender, usually sparingly papillose at base, anthers oblong, 2-3 

 mm. long; pistil exceeding stamens, shorter than corolla, ovary conic, 

 about 0.5 cm. long, usually sparingly glandular, style sparsely glandular, 

 thickened below capitate slightly lobed stigma. Fruit woody, erect, 

 pruinose, oblong-ovoid to ovoid, 2-3 cm. long, 1.2-1.5 cm. broad, 

 slightly furrowed, crowned by remains of style, slightly verruculose from 

 remains of glands; pedicels rigid, erect or ascending, 1.5-3 cm. long; 

 seed flattened oblong-obovoid, about 3.5 mm. long, immersed in lustrous 



wing. 



Habitat: eastern China, Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces. 



This handsome Rhododendron is characterized by its pruinose shoots, 

 dark green leaves pallid on the under surface and usually subcordate or 

 rounded at the base, its pink very fragrant blossoms with more or less 

 glandular pedicels and pistil, by its 7-lobed corolla, and by its large 

 erect pruinose fruit. It was the first Chinese Rhododendron with a 

 7-lobed corolla discovered and the first species hardy in the British Isles 

 to be introduced from China. The number of short-stipitate glands on 

 the pedicels varies and often they are absent or virtually so; this is also 

 true of the glands on the pistil. Occasionally there are a few sessile 

 glands on the inner surface of the corolla. The length of the stamens 

 also varies. In other respects the species is very constant. The truss 

 is large though somewhat loose and is borne well above the bold foliage; 

 the fragrance is most pleasing. 



It was discovered in October, 1855, by Robert Fortune on the moun- 

 tains southwest of Ningpo in Chekiang province. The plants bore ripe 

 fruits and Fortune sent seeds to Mr. Glendinning, a nurseryman at 

 Chiswick, near London, who successfully raised a stock of young plants. 

 The species is common on other mountains of the Chekiang province and 

 especially so on the Lushan range of the contiguous province of Kiangsi 

 where it has been collected by several people including myself. The 



