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NOTES ON RHODODENDRONS. 
‘THE great influx of КО ксы from Ching 
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n im ant dd. among garden plants, a 
this i rtance is being steadily increased 
b th addition of large numbers of 
Chinese Cite ne us which are racer А. find 
а pret 276 ong favo Debden 
dine. p whi 1 show 
m: promise ‘thems selves may prove of value a 
breeders. erally speaking, Chinese ence 
endrons have еп like among the Indian 
into this countr ry by Monier more than ү s 
century ago. Some ot ihem mig sht well is з 
looked up geogr aphical for: ns only, and this 
be overlooke не by those botanists 
name ther For there is 
lassify d 
danger t* at more species will “be created than 
extraordinary 
Unlike 
| are 
be The genus 
M roit. to the system 
those genera the 
presents 
atic bot: nis ч. 
variations, not 
by definite char M 
vd ngly 7 
va m with 1 forms, 
ms e not differ irom each oder in strongly 
marked charac ters, he said: “Т here is no 
e test but individual opinion te ешип 
©. mmn: og е considered as spec 
cene 
mark ed 
Pid p muc ah matter to the, риш: 
whether a pies is ниб 
ql variety of one. For his р 
йди йи nam ев, {һе зїтр 
R obj AY fc diuble- bar 
eclining ta use them, as, xa , К. 
hà addenii var, calophyllum, he d R.c iophyl- 
E. smply ; cam latum var. Walle 
e shortens 4o R. Wallichii; and В. arbore 
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var. nilagiricum R.  nilagiricum. Nice 
botanical discrimination is spem to him. 
The tendency nowadays multiply species, 
1s to 
and this auci ws itself in ihe naming of Rhododen- 
drons, Aper small Ri rences being considered 
sufficient to justify cific ra his is another 
source ot гана to Vm ipsias who fails to see 
in such differences as the number of hairs or 
cales, or the size of the calyx, and similar minor 
oh eters оп which e species of Rhododen- 
dron are based, any tangible reason for dis- 
tinctive names. 
"bise Hutchinson, in a paper published in 
; from the Кайа Botanic Garden, Hdin- 
bur A, Vol. h { ns with what he 
calls the Maddenii series Rhod xdendrons, a 
group typified by R Maddenii, R. Dalhousiae, 
and R. ciliicalyx This group includes prac 
tically all the lar 'ger- -leaved 
with lepidote leaves, and their Chinese 
in all thirty-nine species. ‘Twenty-six of 
are Indian, the other thirteen Chinese 
relations 
these 
They 
Fic. 107.—0ENOTHERA TRILOBA. 
have : a wide area of at piggy oo from Sikkim in 
the n, Siam, Burma, right 
ac i " 1- 
ep oV ince, 
red to eted 
previously rererr R. 
in Bot. , tab. 7,782, 
specific "te R. fon 
the true specie being what i W 
З E calo hyllum | isg 
th 
represe 
Tw 
Вох um, 
8, = Б al 
ced 1 
the group. 
habe 'hinson betwe een 
yi, which in gardens often do duty 
Aber, are not likely to count with “garde 
e late Mr. Е Mangl es had a fine plent t of 
Lindleyi, which appea red 
to be typical R. Dalhousiae. yellow-flowered 
named в. aE a tp 
E ш we species, 
ar EO foliage ws babit to R. ciliatum, is 
vum to be lik ely to prove as valuable a garden 
plant as that well we vn Himalayan species, 
w sep is quite imei in the warmer parts s of qe 
ntry. R. Scottianum, from Yu ; 
r ribed as a oak to 12 feet high, with coria- 
s leaves 4 inches by 1 inch, and large "ar 
ite 
blotch inside, s being likely to prove 
gem of the R. vilic Мук u^ iance. R. carnéum, from 
Upp er Bamia figur: t. Mag., tab. 8,634, 
ru 
a reenhouse rd 
phy with, flesh- pink nhi and R. pachypo- 
dum, from Yunna n, is similar to it but 
E yelow flowers 
The hat ge of some of the species of this gr ap 
a wild state is epiphyte on old tree s 
т being R. Nuttalli, R. Lindleyi 
Ve 
itchianum, whilst R. dendricola grows 
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the tops of trees 50 to 60 fee 
majority, however, et estrial shr 
trees, ranging in heig tom 1j foot to esr 
Under cultiv i if "Rho feed are nd 
to be quite арру риз d as "a cent plants 
Their occurren ytes may therefore be 
looked upon as more Agel accidental. Le 
high. Тһе 
rubs or small 
OENOTHERA TRILOBA. 
. 
m те ors of the 
% по stem, 
Тн everal genus 
Oenother a “which out 
form leaves n je gro und 
amongst hich de flowers are produced « on p 
t Per e best Me сті 
u WI К arsinat E 
ames. ellow-flowe mber " о this 
include О. Nuttallii, rcs Californ: 
lion-like leaves, and O. ovata, with | Seca aaee, 
a beantiful pini also from the same country. 
