STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



RHODODENDRON JAVANICUM, Benn., var. FLAVUM. 



Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 303 (Keport of Exhibit of New Plants). 



A form with flowers of a paler yellow colour than the type, introduced 

 through Thomas Lobb from Java. 



RHODODENDRON JAVANICUM, Benn., var. TUBIFLORA. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6850. 



A variety differing from Rhododendron javanicum in having much larger 

 flowers of a citron-yellow colour, with broad corolla-lobes and a more 

 vigorous habit of growth. 



It was sent from Sumatra by Curtis, and flowered for the first time in 

 June 1885. 



RHODODENDRON LOBBII, Veitch. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1870, p. 16, fig., also col. pi. ; Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1323 ; 



Fl. Mag. 1861, pi. 10. 



A very distinct species of the East Indian Rhododendrons with bright 

 scarlet tubular flowers in trusses of from 8 to 12 blooms. 



Introduced from Borneo through Thomas Lobb in 1861, it has proved 

 useful in the production of that beautiful race of garden forms known as 

 the javanico-jasminiflorum hybrids. 



RHODODENDRON MALAYANUM, Jack. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6045. 



Introduced by Thomas Lobb in 1854 from Mount Ophir, it was 

 originally discovered by Dr. William Jack, of the East India Company's 

 service, on the summit of Gunong Bunko, an insulated mountain in the 

 interior of Bencoolen, Sumatra, commonly called by Europeans the Sugar- 

 loaf. 



The flowers are small, of a beautiful cerise-crimson colour, and the 

 habit of the plant neat and compact. It has been successfully used 

 as a parent in the production of the beautiful greenhouse hybrid 

 Rhododendrons, and has materially influenced the whole strain. 



RHODODENDRON MOULMEINENSE, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4904. 



A species detected by Lobb at Moulmein, on the Gerai Mountains, at an 

 elevation of 5,000 ft., and by him introduced to Chelsea, flowered for 

 the first time in January 1856 ; flowers pure white with a tinge of yellow 

 in the centre. 



RHODODENDRON MULTICOLOR, Miquel. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6769. 



A small-flowered species with blooms of various colours, native of the 



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