[Pirate 83.] 
THE CILIATED RHODODENDRON. 
(RHODODENDRON CILIATUM.) 
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A hardy (?) Evergreen Shrub, from SIKKIM-HIMALAYA, belonging to the Order of HgATRWORTS. 
Specific Character, 
xe r RHODODENDRON. A low rigid gioi sin sede à CILIATUM ; humile, suffrutico- 
ranches, leaf, and flower-stalks covered with ramis petiolis pedicellisque rigide villosis, foliis 
a pa hairs. Leaves on short footstalks, ellipti- سنال أي‎ ellipticis obovatis acutissimis lætè viridibus 
cal, obovate, very sharp, bright green above, the margins ciliatis subtus pallidis glaucescentibus minuté lepidotis, 
and mid-rib with stiff spreading hairs, paler and rather floribus 4—5-nis pallidé purpureis, pedicelli is brevibus 
glaucous below, dotted with small scales. Flowers four rigidis, sepalis latè ovatis obtusis ciliatis, corollà cam- 
or five pue pale purple, on stout short flower-stalks. panulatà patentissimá imo margine recurvá, staminibus 
Sepals broadly ovate, blunt, ciliated on the margin. 10, ovario lepidoto 5-loculari. 
Corolla bell-shaped, with spreading recurved lobes. 
Stamens ten. ees scaly, five-celled.—J. D. Hooker. 
Rhododendron ciliatum : J. D. Hooker, Sikkim Rhododendrons, t. 24 ; u of Horticultural Society, vol. vii., pp. 77, 95 ; 
Botanical Magani, t 
is the first of the true Sikkim Rhododendrons which has flowered in this country. Messrs.‏ متسل" 
Standish & Noble exhibited the specimen now represented to the Horticultural Society in the 
beginning of last March, and the species has also produced its flowers at Kew. It is not a little 
remarkable that neither of them resembled in colour the beautiful figure in the Sikkim Rhododen- 
drons, or indeed each other. In a wild state the blossoms appear to be violet ; with Messrs. Standish 
and Noble they were pale delicate rose-colour; at Kew they were almost white. 
