THE MADDENI SERIES. OF RHODODENDRON. 
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44 IMLUTCHINSON 
long, white slightly tinged with rose fading deeper rose * ; tube 
rather broadly funnel-shaped, about 2 cm. long, glabrous outside ; 
lobes 5, emarginate, shorter than the corolla, glabrous. Stamens 
10, about as long as the corolla tube; filaments densely pube- 
scent towards the base ; anthers 3-4 mm. long; chocolate-brown. 
Ovary 5-celled, closely scaly, the cells with copious “ shoulders ”’ 
at the apex ; style curved, about as long as the corolla, quite 
smooth, crowned by the disk-like lobulate stigma. Capsule 1.5 
cm. long, surrounded by the persistent calyx, the valves very 
obtusely acuminate. Seeds linear, with the testa crested at 
one end. 
SIKKIM. Lachen, in swamps, gooo ft., past flower 2nd June 
1849, J. D. Hooker (type). Lachen, 10,000 ft., fls. May 1885, 
Pantling in Herb. Clarke, 46449a. Laghep, 11,000 ft., 5th May 
1876, procumbent on a rock, corolla white with rose flushes, 
C. B. Clarke, 277854. Yeumthang, 11,000 ft., 15th June 1915, 
fils. white, G. H. Cave (Herb. Edinb.). Without definite locality, 
fr., G. H. Cave, 6737 (Herb. Edinb.). : 
In the Fl. Brit. Ind., l.c., Mr Clarke records it from Chola 
and Dikchoo, Sikkim. 
As there seems to have been some mis-interpretation regard- 
ing the colour of the flowers (explained in the footnote below) 
through Hooker f. having drawn them in a faded condition, I 
give below a transcript of Hooker senior’s notes accompanying 
his var. roseo-album in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4648 (1852) :-— 
“It is scarcely two years since the seeds of this Rhododendron 
_ were received from Dr Hooker, and already (March 7, 1852) 
six plants of it have produced flowers while only seven inches 
high, and many others are showing blossoms. Their flowering 
has given us peculiar pleasure, as the first of the Sikkim-Hima- 
layan Rhododendrons which have done so; and on another 
account. From more than one quarter hints have been thrown 
out that the author of the work above cited has used some 
freedom in going beyond nature in the size and colouring of 
the flowers. Such gratuitous statements, from very incompetent 
judges, are contradicted by the first species that has blossomed ; 
for assuredly our cultivated R. ciliatum far excels in size of the 
corolla, and delicacy of tint, Dr Hooker’s original figure. Even 
were the reverse the case, it would be no proof of any inaccuracy 
in Dr Hooker’s figures, for no intelligent traveller in Sikkim can 
fail to observe how liable the flowers of all the species of Rhodo- 
dendron are to vary in size and colour (nor are the leaves more 
Hooker figures the flowers as duil violet, but Clarke (l.c.) remarks: ‘‘ The 
wild plant has the flowers white, slightly tinged with rose, fading a deeper rose. 
J. D. Hooker sketched his species in Sikkim (Rhod. Sikkim, t. 24) reine a 
plant ‘ past flower,’ hence with too purple a corolla.” 
