HORTUS VEITCHII 



EHODODENDEON BEOOKEANUM, Low, var. GEACILIS. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1871, p. 12, fig. 



A variety introduced from Borneo through Thomas Lobb, differing from 

 the type in a more slender, graceful habit, and in having larger flowers 

 of a pale yellow colour. 



EHODODENDEON JASMINIFLOEUM, Hook. 



Gard. Chron. 1851, p. 183 (Report of Show) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4524. 



A native of Mount Ophir, Malacca, at elevations of 5,000 ft., sent to 

 Exeter by Thomas Lobb in 1848. 



In the Botanical Magazine above quoted, the Editor remarks : "At 

 the first, and truly splendid, exhibition of flowers at the Chiswick 

 Gardens of the present year (1850), few plants excited greater attention 

 among the visitors most distinguished for taste and judgment, than the 

 one here figured, from the nursery of Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. Many 

 excelled it in splendour, but the delicacy of form and the colour of the 

 flowers (white with a deep pink eye), and probably their resemblance to 

 the favourite Jessamine (some compared them to the equally favourite 

 Stephanotis), attracted general notice. So unlike indeed are they to the 

 ordinary form of Ehododendron blossoms that the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 in recounting the prizes of the day, seemed to imply that it was probably 

 no Ehododendron at all ! " 



This species has entered largely into the production of the race known as 

 the javanico-jasminiflorum hybrids. 



EHODODENDEON JAVANICUM, Benn. 



Gard. Chron. 1847, p. 374 (Notice of Exhibit of New Plants) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4336; Paxt. 



Mag. Bot. vol. xv. p. 217. 



A native of Java, extremely handsome in foliage and in the brilliant 

 colouring of the flowers. Introduced through Thomas Lobb from Java, 

 an imported plant was exhibited in flower for the first time before the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society in June 1847. 



In reporting the Show, the Gardeners' Chronicle states it " promises 

 to be a great acquisition as well on account of its own intrinsic merit as 

 for the purposes of hybridization." That the species has justified the 

 high opinion held when first exhibited, the race of Greenhouse Ehododen- 

 drons, known as javanico-jasminiflorum hybrids, afford to-day ample 

 evidence. The history of these hybrids, in the production of which 

 Ehododendron javanicum took a large share, is given in a special part 

 of this work devoted to the genus Ehododendron. 



BHODODENDEON JAVANICUM, Benn., var. AUEANTIACUM. 



Fl. des Serres, 1850, torn. vi. p. 135. 

 Introduced through Thomas Lobb from Java. 



The flowers of the typical species vary considerably in colour, from 

 citron to red-orange the colour of this variety is golden-yellow. 



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