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and apparently very rare ; for I have only gathered it twice, and 

 each time in the wildest districts of Sikkim, where its ele^-ant 

 flowers appear soon after the snow has melted, when its pretty 

 pink bells are seen peeping- above the surrounding short heath- 

 like vegetation, reminding the botanist of those of Linncea 

 horealis. It has a faint and agreeable odour like that of K. glau- 

 cum, to which it has many points of resemblance. 



23. R. cameUicEjiorum. — Distribution and range : East 

 Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan. — In moist fir MOods. — 

 9000 to 12,000 feet. 



This very curious species is more allied, in some respects, to 

 the section including R. lejndotum than to any of the others ; 

 in foliage it resembles R. 3Iaddeni^ though much smaller ; 

 and also R. cinnaharinum, from which tlie dried flowerless speci- 

 mens are not easily distinguishable. The same very stout midrib, 

 which runs through and forms the point of the leaf, is common 

 to all these. Stems 2 to 6 feet long, seldom thicker than a goose- 

 quill ; branches long, generally pendulous, though when growing 

 on cliffs often obscurely so. Leaves, as usual in the genus, at 

 the ends of the branches, differing in little but size from those of 

 R. Madde?ii, 2^ to 3 inches long. Flower-stalks axillary or 

 terminal, very short and stout. Corolla sparingly scaly, 1^ inch 

 across, of a very thick texture, pure white with a faint rosy 

 tinge, all the segments obtuse and entire. The similarity between 

 the flower and that of a single (wild) Camellia has suggested 

 the trivial name. Odour, as in all the scaly species, more or 

 less strongly resinous according to the heat of the day. 



24. R. pendulum. — Distribution and range : Sikkim. — 

 9000 to 11,000 feet.— In humid forests. 



Stems 3 to 4 feet long, sparingly branched, branches scarcely 

 stouter than a crow's quill. Leaves chiefly confined to the cuds 

 of the branchlets, on short stalks, spreading, smooth and siiining 

 above, the margins a little recurved, 1^ to 2 inches long and 

 about I of an inch broad, below densely clothed with ferruginous 

 wool. Flower-stalks 2 to 3 from the ends of the young leafj-^ 

 branches, very short, but longer than the leaf-stalks, ferru- 

 ginously shaggy, bearing 1 or 2 linear bracteas. Flowers small. 

 Corolla pure white, about an inch in diameter, externally scaly, 

 tube very short, gradually expanding into the nearly equally 

 5-lobed limb : lobes rounded, waved at the margin, entire. 

 This species is inodorous, very distinct, although allied to R. 

 camellicE/loruni, the scaly character of that species here giving 

 place to a dense fulvous or ferruginous wool. Growing, as it 



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