100 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
lateral lobes of the lip much narrower. In this plant, however, we have, I in to the authors above quoted, much 
smaller ehe a simple conical not two-lobed spur, short very sharp sepals and petals, and a pair of great lacerate 
appendages at the base of € lip ; to say nothing of the لومي‎ whieh is so vidi unlike anything known among 
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570. RHODODENDRON LEPIDOTUM. Wallich. (alias Rhododendron eleagnoides, R. salignum, 
and R. obovatum Hook. fi.) A pretty alpine greenhouse shrub, with yellow or purple flowers. 
Native of the Himalayas. Introduced at Kew. 
The purple-flowered state of this very variable species of Rhododendron blossomed freely in April, 1852, in a cool 
genet of the Royal Gardens. The seeds were sent from Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker, under the name of 
, and as such this is figured in the work on the Rhododendrons, with dark purple flowers, and also with 
dup yellow flowers, looking like those of some Helianthemum. In that work, however, the author alludes to its close 
affinity, as well as that of R. salignum, with the R. lepidotum of "Wallich (only known to us from dried specimens) ; and 
a further examination has satisfied him that they and his R. obovatum can in no way be specifically distinguished from 
authentic specimens of lepidotum. He has, therefore, in the Journal of the Horticultwral Society of London, united them. 
» The species abounds,” Dr. Hooker says, “at an elevation of Eastern Himalaya of from 14,000 to 15,000 feet; but may be 
found as low down as 8000 feet, ^ es valleys, forming a stout tortuous stalk : the branches as thick as a crow's quill, 
rather scattered, bearing tufts of branchlets at the top. It is a slender or stout twiggy shrub, one to four feet high, 
branching, often growing in petted dude clumps, as heather does with us, but never so extensively ; and it emits in 
sunshine a powerful resinous odour, Leaves of a pale glaucous groon, vier ana e M es ferruginous 
scales abound, one half to one and a half inch long. Flow e and a half to 
two inches long, slender. Corolla yellow or dirty purple, half an inch across as the د‎ lobes, scaly, ey on pm outside of 
e tube ; the upper lobes are spotted with green. The odour of this plant is strongly resinous, dno rather sweetish and 
pleasant: Its common native name is 7saluma, or Tsuma, amongst the Bhoteas."— Bot. Mag 
571. Veronica ELLIPTICA. Forster. (alias V. decussata Aiton.) A s (P) evergreen bush, 
with deep green leaves and white flowers. Native of the antarctic and neighbouring regions. 
Belongs to Linariads. (Fig. 279.) 
Beautiful flowering specimens of this were exhibited last spring to the Horticultural Society, by the Hon. W. F. 
Strangways, with whom the plant is hardy in Dorsetshire. It forms a dwarf dark green bush, with opposite oblong 
leaves, each pair of which ly crosses the previous pair,so as to produce the appearance which botanists call 
decussate, the name by which the idit is known in gardens. Dr. Hooker has, however, —— that in reality it is 
the same plant as the F. elliptica of Forster, published many years before the name decussata was heard of. Upon what 
vip hen opinion has been formed will appear from the following extract from Dr. Hooker's eium Flora antarctica, 
vol. i, p. 58 :— 
“Found in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell's Island ; at the margins of woods near the sea, abundant. 
» This isa very well known plant in our gardens, introduced from the Falkland Islands, and is one of the most 
c trees, both in this longitude and in that of extreme Southern America, there reaching the fifty-seventh parallel 
of latitude. It was first collected in New Zealand by Forster, its original discoverer, in Dusky Bay, where it has since 
been found by Anderson and Menzies. I believe it, however, to have been noticed before as a native of the Straits 
of Magalhaens, by the older navigators. 
* In combining the V. decussata Ait. with V. elliptica, I have followed the — opinion. a Dr. Solander. In 
the British Museum there are drawings of the latter plant by Forster, New Zealand ki ollected probably by 
that author, and notes by Dr. Solander, The specimens alluded to are in fruit scs d agree in the foliage with the 
gures, which represent it in its flowering state. Dr. Forster's own handwriting (of V. ol is on the same sheet 
with it ; but another plant, V. Menziesii Benth. MSS., has been fastened down on the paper at a future period, and the 
habitat, New Zealand, Dusky Bay, Gul. Anderson, is written on the back, a station probably applying to the latior 
specimen alone. Solander's handwriting of V. decussata B., at "dh bottom of the sheet, applies to both, as in his MS. 
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