‘ORD. XVII. Bicornes. 299 
RHODODENDRON CHRYSAN- YELLOW FLOWERED 
ANTHUM, 
RHODODENDRON., 
SYNONYMA. Rhododendron. Pharm. Edinb. Andromeda 
foliis ovatis, utrinque venosis corollis campanulatis obliquis. 
Gmelin, Flor. Sib. iv. p. 121. tab. 54. Rhod. Chrys. Pallas, It. 
vol. iti. p. 369. App. p. 792. n. 87. tab. N. fig. 1. 2: Kolpin. 
monogr. cum figura Pallasii. R. foliis ovatis scabris, margine 
reflexis, subtus glabris, umbellis terminalibus, corollis flavis 
irregularibus, Flora Rossica, tom. 7. p. 44. tab. 30. 
‘Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 548. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibulif. Stam. declinata. 
Caps. 5-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. R. foliis oblongis impunctatis supra scabris venosissimis, 
corella rotata irregulari, gemma florifera ferrugineo- 
tomentosa. Supp. Plant. 237. 
THIS ‘beautiful shrub sends off spreading branches, which are 
covered with brown bark, and rise about a foot in height: the 
leaves are oblong, obtuse, thick, veined, reflexed at the margin, on 
the upper side of a deep green, beneath ferruginous, or glaucous, 
and surrounding the branches upon strong footstalks, which arise 
from between the imbricated stipular squame.: ‘the flowers are 
Jarge, yellow, and terminate the branches upon long peduncles, 
forming umbels: the calyx 4s persistent, divided into five teeth: 
the corolla is monopetalous, wheel-shaped, inclining, irregularly 
divided at the limb into five roundish spreading segments: the ten 
