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RHODODENDRON FALCONERIY, Zoe. wz 
Dr. Falconer’s Rhododendron. 
Tas. X. 
Arboreum, foliis amplis valde coriaceis obovato-cllipticis obtusis cum mucronulo basi cordatis supra nitidis glabris reticulatim venosis subtus 
ferrugineis costa petiolisque validis rufo-tomentoso-furfuraceis, capitulis globosis densis multifloris, ped lis erectis pul ti-vise 
floribus parvis (pro planta) albis, calyce minutissimo vix lobato, corolle lobis 10 rotundatis, staminik 16, ovario hirsutissimo viscoso 
18-loculari, stylo flexuoso incrassato longe exserto, stigmate dilatato. 
Has. Sikkim-Himalaya. Summit of Tonglo, elev. 10,000 feet. 
A ¢ree thirty feet in height ; two or three franks springing from the same point, and they are often two feet in diameter. 
The daré is pale and smooth: branches few, spreading, leafy at the points ; the young leaves clothed with velvety down, and 
in the state of the bud concealed by downy glutinous scales, of which the outer are subulate, the inner ovate. ‘The perfect 
/eaves ave very coriaceous, from eight inches to a foot in length, five to seven inches wide, the upper side glossy green, but 
fading into yellow at the margins, which margins are quite plane (not recurved), beneath, except on the mid-rib and reti- 
culated veins, clothed with a short, dense, pale, ferruginous down. Petioles long and very thick, plane and glabrous above, 
semiterete and clothed with dark rusty down beneath. Heads not large, but composed of numerous, rather small, white, 
densely placed flowers. Stamens sixteen. Style much exserted. Peduncles erect, elongated after flowering. Capsules 
erect, eight to ten-valved, hispid, an inch and a half long, with numerous cells. 
If not the most showy, this is certainly one of the most striking and distinct of the genus. The noble foliage has 
some resemblance to that of the variety of Magnolia grandiflora, which has the leaves ferruginous beneath. ‘The dense 
many-flowered head, the multiplication of the lobes of the corolla, and of the stamens and cells of the fruit, and the exserted 
style, bring it very near #. grande, Wight’s Ic. Plant., vol. iv. tab. 1202; but the foliage is totally different. 
Tas. X. Lhododendron Faleoneri. Fig. 1. Bracteal scale. 2. Flower. 8. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Section of ovary :—magnified. 
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