[Plate 22.] 
THE KAMTCHATKA RHODOTHAM. 
(RHODOTHAMNUS KAMTCHATICUS.) 
A hardy evergreen dwarf Shrub, native of Eastern Siberia, belonging to the Order of Heathworts 
£pcrtfic Character. 
THE KAMTCHATKA RHODOTHAM— Leaves oblong 
and obovate, fringed with coarse hairs, thin, blunt, 
tipped with a conspicuous gland. Sepals obovate, blunt. 
Corolla purple, with rounded lobes. purese lobis rotundatis 
RHODOTHAMNUS KAMTCHATICUS; foliis oblongis 
obovatisque fimbriatis papyraceis obtusis apice glandula 
conspicua auctis, sepalis obovatis obtusis, corollas pur- 
Rhododendron Kamtchaticum : Pallas, Fl. Ross., I., p. 48, t, 33. 
poE this great rarity and exquisitely beautiful shrub we are indebted to Mr. Loddiges, whose pre- 
decessors raised it from seed about twenty years ago. It appears to be of slow growth, as the 
forming 
finds 
under a north wall. It is admirably adapted for rock-work in a shady 
situation. 
According to Pallas this charming plant grows abundantly near the sea of Ochotsk, m the penin- 
sula of Kamchatka, and in Bhering's Island in muddy mountainous places. There it begins to 
blossom from the end of July, grows vigorously to the end of August, and ripens its seeds about the 
end of September. 
¥ , dry, as thick as a quill, and forms creeping runners 
stems, which every here and there break into flower. The leave! 
•rin 
sharp-pointed, perfectly entire, and fringed with very perceptible hairs. The peduncles 
surroun 
mall leaves, besides which there are generally about two 
inalh 
The flowers 
are nodding, and deep-purple. The sepals leafy, 3-nerved, two being nearer to each other than to 
the others. The corolla is irregular, rotate, with a very short funnel-shaped tube, and a deeply 
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