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292. Rhodode'ndron retu^sum Be?inct. Blunt-leaved 



Rhododendron. (Ericaceae.) Java. 



A greeiilionsc pl:uit; grosvin? two feet liUh; with crimson scarlet flowers; npijeaving in spring; 

 increased by layers aiiJ grafiing; grown in peat and leaf mould. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4659. 



A most hrilliaiit species of the rhododendron, a native of 

 the high mountains of Java, introduced by Messrs. RolHnsons 

 of the Tooting Nursery. It has small tubular flowers, but 

 they approach nearer to scarlet than any other species of the 

 genus. The foliage is also small but remarkably neat and 

 handsome. It grows only one or two feet high and flowers 

 early and abundantly. Dr. Hooker considers it " a truly 

 lovely plant." — {Bot. Mag., July.) 



293. Streptoca'rpus Garde^ni Hook. Captain Garden's 



Streptocarpus. (Didymocarpas.) Natal. 



A greenliouse plant; growing six inches high; with pale lilac flowers; appearing in spring; in- 

 creased by division of the root.s; grown in light, leafy soil. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4802. 



A pretty plant, allied to the S. Rexii, a species some time 

 since introduced but rarely seen in our collections. It has 

 broad handsome foliage, and sends up numerous scapes, usu- 

 ally two-flowered, pendent, and of a pale or bluish lilac tint. 

 It flowers abundantly all the summer months, and with the 

 achimenes and gloxinias, it adds to the decoration of the 

 greenhouse at that season. — [Bot. Mag., July.) 



Leptodactylon californicum. — A beautiful new plant 

 from California, exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, at the June ex- 

 hibition at Chiswick. The genus was founded on two North 

 American plants, one of which Sir W. J. Hooker had pre- 

 viously called Phlox Hoodii, but which has been found to 

 difl!'er from Phlox in the ovary containing a great many ovules 

 instead of one or tAvo. 



The plant is one of the most charming acquisitions of Mr. 

 William Cobb, who found it on the mountains of St. Bar- 

 nardino, in California, who describes it as an evergreen shrub, 

 two to four feet high. The wood is hard, the branches closely 

 covered with bright green, stiff, finely cut leaves, and loaded 

 with rose-colored flowers as large as those of our common 

 phlox. It will, undoubtedly, prove a valuable half-hardy or 

 greenhouse shrub. — {Gard. Chron., p. 524, 1855.) 



