“26 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
GAULTHERIA LESCHENAULTII (D. C. G. ovali- shrub with every _~ coriacious leaves and pure 
folia Wall. List No, 1523. Andromeda Kataghe- white flowers. Berries blue. 
“rensis, Hook Icon. 246. isanag-ee Katagherensis.D. 1 have adopted DeCandolle’s specific pete, in 
C. Prod. 7, p. 606 Andromeda fieruosa! Moon) g we preference to Wallich’s having a spec cha- 
rous, ramuli ps Ai at ag leaves petioled ovate or racter attached : on the same grounds Hooker's spe- 
obovate, terminating in a gland, crenulate, jetnetunte cific name held priority had he correctly recognized 
ea emes axiliary or lateral pubescent, a lit- gen ri ld have 
tle shorter than the leaves, erect : cts concave cies ts indenity of Hooker’s plant with his 
palit glabrous, one un “A Ng pedicel, two near the own, gure is most characteristic, especially 
flower. D. C. Prod. 7— be en aided, as It by a good character and descrip- 
Ruligiaivies: abundan a to be met with in flow The oldest name is undoubtedly Moon’s, but 
er at all seasons, Itis a S veonaslaeabis sized ramous se a referred it es a wrong geni 
RHODODENDRON. 
Calyx 5 parted. Corolla funnel shaped rarely campanulate or rotate sometimes regular sometimes 
more or less irregular always 5 lobed. Stamens 10 (rarely 6-9 by abortion), not adnate to the corolla, situated 
before and between the lobes, usually declinate, exserted. Anthers opening by two terminal pores. Capsules 
5-celled and 5-valved, or 10-celled and 10-valved dehiscing along the partetions. Seed, attached to an angled 
columnar axis, compressed, dust-like, subulate.—Shrubs or trees : leaves evergreen petioled entire ; flowers dis- 
posed in termenal corymbs : the flower buds scaly : corolla conspicuous, purple white or yellow. 
This character which is copied from DeCandolles Prodromus, will now require to be somewhat modified to 
admit two new species I have recently published in my Icones. In one the calyx and corolla are 8 lobed with 16 
stamens anda 16 celled ovary. Here the relation is preserved only differing in number. In the other the 
calyx is entre with a free somewhat undulated or crenate limb, the corolla 5 lobed, stamens 15 and the ovary 
10 celled, but the forms of the anthers, style, and stigma; the structure and position of the placente# and ovules 
all agree with those of the other speices. 
Whether the altered relations in regard the number of parts of the flower, added to a racemose ten- 
dency in the satan — this ~ aa to become the type of a new — my — acquaintance 
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my analysis 
prove correct, of which I feel some doubt, as the specimen had suffered from the sienke of — The 
placentation of this genus, if not indeed of the order, is peculiar. The ovuliferous margins of the carpellary leaf 
do not, as in most others with axillary placente, coalesce and form a central fleshy placenta, but are inflexed 
xemaining free, each margin bearing a row of ovules. The draughtsman not observing that peculiarity of 
structure has conveyed a most erronious idea of the structure of the ovary in his transverse section figure 5. 
The genus is a large one including, according to DeCandolles list, 44 species, and some have since 
heen added ; these are all natives of the northern hemisphere inhabiting the colder regions of Europe, America 
and Asia, several are found on the Himalayas and on the mountains of Java. Ihave one from Malacca and 
the accompanying is common to the Neilgherries and Nucera Ellia in Ceylon. Many of the species are 
very handsome and prized as ornaments in the shrubbery. 
Little seems known regarding their properties, two or three are employed medicinally in Europe on 
account of the tonic and somewhat narcotic qualities they are known to possess but their use seems limited to 
domestie medicine. 
RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM. (Smith.) arboreous, legen in es and ingen Leaves gti colour- 
leaves lanceolate a scaly beneath : flowers ed beneath, flowers deep crimson. The itself, 
compact paronee ovary pubescenti-tomentose apparent, from Teaells wing exposed siaations, 
8-10 celled. “D. . 1— has tunted appearance ; its oe capi- 
Neilgherries, very frequent, Flowering in great Pare of eu are always terminal. 
