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which are of an orange color on the outside, yellow within, 

 tubular in form, drooping, and looking almost like the Bland- 

 fordia, from whence its name. It is a curious and handsome 

 species. It grows about eight feet high. [Bot. Mag., Aug.) 



334. Rhododendron camelliaflo^rum Hook. Camellia- 



flowered Rhododendron. East Nepal. 



A still more singular species, with foliage of the size and 

 general appearance of a Kalmia, and with small heads of 

 bloom, which are one and a half inches across, of a very 

 thick texture, pure white, with a rosy tinge. It is epiphytal 

 in its native woods, growing on the limbs of lofty trees, 

 whence its branches hang down, and were several feet long, 

 but in looser forests, with more light and air, it was found on 

 the ground and on rocks, at an elevation of 9 to 12,000 feet. 

 It was detected in the pine forests of East Nepal and Sikkim. 

 {Bat. Mag., Aug.) 



335. Rhododendron Brookea^num Loiu. Sir James 



Brooke's Rhododendron. Borneo. 



A magnificent deep yellow species, with very large heads 

 of blossoms, and deep rich foliage. " I shall never forget," 

 says Mr. Low, " the first discovery of this gorgeous plant ; it 

 was epiphytal, upon a tree, which was growing in the water 

 of a creek. The head of flowers was very large, arranged 

 loosely, of the richest golden yellow, resplendent in the sun ; 

 the habit was graceful, the leaves large. The roots are 

 large and fleshy, not fibrous as those of the terrestial rhodo- 

 dendrons." 



As this is from a warm climate, it will require the protec- 

 tion of the greenhouse, where its splendid yellow blossoms 

 will be a most conspicuous ornament. {Bat. Mag., Sept.) 



336. Rhododendron Edgeworthii Hook. Mr. Edge- 

 worth's Rhododendron. Sikkim Himalaya. 



Another of the species found in the valleys of the warm 

 ranges of the Sikkim Himalaya mountains, usually pendulous 

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