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RHODODENDRON LANCIFOLIUM, Zocx. wv 
Lance-leaved Rhododendron. 
Tas. IV. 
Subarboreum, ramis rugosis tortuosis, foliis oblongo-l latis acutissimis coriaceis basi cordatis margine revolutis glabris, supra indistincte 
penninerviis viridibus subtus reticulatis luteis, petiolis tuberculoso-rugosis, floribus terminalibus capitatis majusculis puniccis, lobis 
calycinis late obovatis foliaccis crosis, corollis reticulatis, staminibus 10, ovario dense villoso 5—8-loculari. 
Has. Interior of Sikkim-Himalaya. 77. May. 
This constitutes a shrub, six to eight feet high, the dark reddish, papery, easily separating and falling off. Branches 
spreading, tortuous, wrinkled and knotted. Zeaves chiefly at the extremities of the branches, three to four inches long, one 
to one inch and a half wide, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, very acute, the margins revolute, the base cordate, above full 
green, penninerved, the nerves inconspicuous, beneath reticulated and tawny or yellow brown, quite glabrous on both sides, 
and destitute of dots or furfuraceous scales : petioles half an inch long, much wrinkled and tubercled, looking as if diseased, 
glabrous. #Vowers of a moderate size, collected into a rather dense ead at the ends of the branches. Bracteas small. 
Peduncles glabrous. Calyx large, cut almost to the base into five, obovate, slightly spreading, coloured, erose, foliaccous 
lobes. Corolla rich puce-colour, campanulate, distinctly reticulated, five-lobed, lobes rounded, waved. Stamens and pistil 
included. Ovary elliptical, densely shaggy with hairs, five to eight-celled. Style slender, flexuose. Stigma capitate. 
Allied to the preceding, 2. darbatum, but forming a stunted shrub, with very differently shaped leaves, tawny beneath 
when recent, the corollas reticulated, the calyx-lobes erose, and the plant is everywhere destitute of hairs except on the 
ovary, which is more shaggy than that of 2. barbatum. 
Ta. IV. Rhododendron lancifolium. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil:——natural size. 8. Section of the ovary. 4 Pollen with tubes :—magnified. 
