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green above, silvery or rust-coloured beneath, 5-10 inches 

 long. Flowers in crowded heads, red, pink, or white, bell- 

 shaped, i inch or more long, lobes five, small, stamens ten. 

 Represented by several distinct varieties named Campbellice, 

 Windsori, cinnamoneum, album, &c. Tender. 



R. aucubcefolium. China. 1900. A faked species. 

 Leaves of Daphniphyllum and flowers of a Rhododendron. 

 Done by Ah Sin ! 



R. Augustinii. China. 1900. A shrub resembling R. 

 Yunnanense. Leaves lance-shaped, 2-4 inches long. Flowers 

 shallow, bell-shaped, with wide-spreading crisped lobes 

 about 2\ inches across, white, pink, or purple. Hardy. 



R. auriculatum. China. 1900. A shrub or tree up to 

 30 feet. Evergreen. Leaves leathery, oblong, 8-12 inches, 

 lobed at the base. Flowers bell-shaped, 3 inches long, 4 

 inches wide, white or rose. Closely allied to R. Griffi- 

 thianum. Tender. 



R. barbatum. Himalaya, 12,000 feet. 1829. A shrub 

 or tree up to 40 feet. Evergreen. Leaves oblong, 8 inches 

 by 2 inches, distinctly reticulated, green on both sides, 

 petiole usually clothed with bristly hairs. Flowers in 

 crowded, compact heads, bell-shaped, 14 inches wide, five- 

 lobed, blood-red. Tender. 



R. Benthamianum. China. 1907. A shrub up to 10 

 feet. Evergreen. Allied to R. Yunnanense, from which it 

 differs in its more densely scaled leaves and in the flowers 

 being purple-violet, usually in threes, and over 2 inches 

 across. Tender. 



R. Boothii. Bhotan, 8000 feet. 1858. A straggling 

 bush, 6 feet, epiphytic. Evergreen. Leaves elliptic, covered 

 with rust hairs when young, glabrous when mature, the 

 margins sometimes ciliate, 5 inches long. Flowers in dense 



