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recurved lobes ; stamens 10 ; ovary quite smooth, 5 to 8 celled. 

 — R. Wallichii ; Sikkim Rhod., PI. V. ; and R. ceruginosum, 

 PL XXII. 



15. ^.fulgens — a small bush, differing only from R. campa- 

 nulatum in its dense heads of blood-red flowers, which resemble 

 those of R. arboreum ; and in the capsule, wliich is broader and 

 of a fine purple colour. — Sikkim Rhod.^ PI. XXV. 



16. R. land turn — a small tree; branchlets flower and leaf- 

 stalks underside of leaves and ovary densely covered with a 

 whitish wool ; leaves obovate, blunt with a short point, narrowed 

 into a short foot-stalk ; flowers 6 to 8 in a loose liead, noddins;' ; 

 flower-stalks rather long ; calyx of 5 small blunt teeth ; corolla 

 broadly bell-shaped, pale straw colour, with purple spots inside ; 

 stamens 10 ; ovary 5-celled. — Sikkitn Rhod., PL XVI. 



17. R. Wightii — a large branching shrub ; leaves elliptical, 

 lanceolate, sharp, narrowed below into a stout downy leaf-stalk, 

 sniootli and bright green above, covered beneath with a closely 

 pressed reddish down ; heads large, rather loose, and many flow- 

 ered, on downy foot-stalks ; calyx of 5 very small teeth ; corolla 

 broadly bell-shaped, 5-lobed at the base, straw-coloured, spotted 

 above with red ; stamens 10 ; ovary glandular and downy, 10- 

 ceWed.— Sikkim Rhod., PL XXVII. 



18. R. campylocarpum — a shrub, with slender branches ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong, blunt with a short point, heart-shaped at the 

 base, smooth and shining above, paler and rather glaucous below ; 

 leaf-stalks slender, as are the flower-stalks, which, as well as the 

 calyx and ovary, are more or less covered witli glandular hairs ; 

 flowers nodding, 5 to 10 in loose heads ; calyx of 5 small rounded 

 lobes ; corolla broadly bell-shaped, with spreading lobes, pure 

 white or pale straw colour ; stamens 10; ovary 5-celled. — Sik- 

 kim Rhod., PL XXX. 



§ V. Calyx of 5 short lobes or teeth, the upper sometimes 

 elongated. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube narrow. Stamens 

 10 to 20. Ovary 5 to 10-celled. — Shrubs with the leaves 

 scaly on the underside. 



19. R. Maddeni — an erect twiggy shrub ; branchlets leaf and 

 flower stalks underside of leaves calyx and ovary thickly 

 studded with small scales, which are also scattered over the tube 

 of the corolla ; leaves elliptic, lanceolate, sharp at both ends, 

 bright green and shining above, tawny below ; flowers nodding, 

 white, very lai'ge, 2 or 3 together, on short stalks ; tube of the 



