Rhododendron.'] Lxxxn. ERICACEAE. (C. B. Clarke.) 467 



Kew Joum. v. 1853, 358; Bot. Mag. t. 5129. Khododendron sp., Griff. Itin. 

 Notes, 141, n. 656. 



BHOTAN ; Duphla Hills, alt. 7000 ft., Griffith, Booth. 



A large shrub. Leaves 6 by 1-1|- in.; base cuneate or obtuse; petiole in. 

 Heads closely packed ; rachis brown-villous ; pedicels ^ in., nearly glabrous ; bracts 

 | in., broadly oblong, villous. Corolla 1| in., 5-lobed. Stamens 10. Capsule J by 

 in., curved, nearly glabrous. Seeds oblong, compressed; testa somewhat lax, pro- 

 duced at both euds. This seems allied to 7?. arboreum as Nuttall suggests, differing 

 by the very narrow capsule. The leaves are described above from the Bhotan ex- 

 amples ; in Bot. Mag. t. 5129, taken from a plant grown in England, and called var. 

 latifolia, the leaves are not narrower than in the North Indian R. arboreum. 



15. H. Shepherdii, Nutt. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. (1853) 360 ; leaves 

 linear-oblong acute glabrous, heads dense many-flowered, calyx small 5r-lobed, 

 corolla campanulate bright-red, ovary glabrous, JBot. Mag. t. 5125. 



BHOTAN ; Oola Mts., Booth. 



Nothing is known of this at Kew except the drawing of Mr. Holden, commu- 

 nicated and figured in Bot. Mag. t. 5125. It differs from R. Kendrickii, yar. latifolia, 

 in the glabrous ovary, the more developed more distinctly lobed calyx. On the faith 

 of the larger calyx it has been (by Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 600) removed to the next 

 section and placed next R. Thomsoni. 



(6) Corolla yellow. 



16. R. Wig-htii, Hook. f. Rhod. Sikkim Himal. t. 27 ; leaves narrowly 

 obovate-oblong rhomboid at the base closely cinnamoneous tomentose beneath, 

 heads many-flowered somewhat lax, corolla campanulate yellow, ovary ferrugi- 

 nous woolly. Hook. f. in Journ. Hwt. Soc. Lond. vii. 79, 99. ; Fl. des Serrex, 

 viii. (1852-3) t. 792-3. 



EAST NIPAL and SIKKIM; alt. ILr-l 4,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A shrub, 6-14 ft. Leaves 7 by 2|- in., mucronate, hardly acute, above glabrous, 

 minutely closely reticulate, beneath adpressed-tomentose ; petiole in., more or less 

 tomentose, not hirsute. Pedicels 10-20, -H in., hairy, sometimes glandular or 

 ferruginous; bracts l in , spathn late-oblong, silky. Calyx-lobes subobsolete. Corolla 

 1^ by 1 in., 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments scaly-woolly at the base. Ovary 10- 

 celled. Capsule If by ^ in., cylindric, curved, ultimately glabrescent. Seeds linear- 

 oblong, large for Rhododendron, compressed ; testa close, produced at one end. 



17. XL. lanatum, Hook. f. Rhod. Sikkirn Himal. t. 16 : leaves narrowly 

 obovate-elliptic cuneate at the base cinnamoneous and woolly beneath, heads 

 few-flowered lax, corolla campanulate yellow, fruit ferruginous-ianate. Hook. f. 

 in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. vii. 79, 100 ; Fl. des Serres, vii. (1851-2) t. 684 ; 

 Rev. Hortic. 1855, t. 9. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Jongri, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



Branchlets upwards densely woolly. Leaves 4 by If in., subobtuse, more or less 

 lanate or ultimately glabrescent above except the midrib ; petiole densely woolly, not 

 hirsute. Flowers 5-7 in a head, nodding. Capsule ^-f by \-^ in. Seeds smaller 

 than those of R. Wightii, -which this species resembles except in the points 

 mentioned. 



18. XI. campylocarpum, Hook. f. Rhod. Sikkim Himal. t. 30 ; leaves 

 elliptic obtuse at the base glabrous on both surfaces, heads somewhat lax, 

 corolla campanulate yellow, ovary sparsely covered with stalked glands. Hook, 

 f. in Journ Hort. Soc. Lond. vii. 79, 101 ; Sot. Mag. t. 4968. 



EAST NIPAL and SIKKIM; alt. 11-14,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A shrub, 4-8 ft. Leaves 2i-3 by jA in., obtuse, base rounded sometimes subcor- 

 date, rarely rhomboid, minutely reticulated on both surfaces ; petiole %-% in., with 



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