maculatis, staminibus 8-10, filamentis basi villosis, antheris majusculis, ovario brevi 5-lobo dense lepidoto, stylo crasso decurvo, capsulis 
parvis. 
Han. Sikkim-Himalaya ; open rocky places, elev. 12-16,000 feet ; most abundant. Fl. Sune and July. 
Undoubtedly the smallest species of this section, growing in widely extended clumps, much as heather does, but never 
so extensively, emitting in sunshine a powerful resinous odour. Leaves fasciculated at the apices of the ramuli, gencrally 
spreading in a rotate manner, pale yellowish-green, very copiously covered with lepidote squamuli, a quarter to half an 
inch long. Pedicels an inch to an inch and a half long. Flowers large for the size of the plant, of the same form as 
R. salignum and lepidotum, but much larger, varying from yellow (the usual colour) to deep red-purple, spotted faintly on 
the three upper lobes. Stamens generally eight. Capsule very small, a quarter of an inch in length, twice as long as the 
calyx, five-valved, five-celled. Seeds pale-coloured. 
This and the 2. epidotum and salignum may prove extreme varieties of one species. 
Tas. XXIII. Rhododendron eleagnoides. Figs. 1 and 2. Plants :—natural size. 3. Stamen. 4, Peduncle, calyx, and ovarium. 5, Trans- 
verse section of ovarium:—al/ magnified. 6. Fruit :—natural size. 
