B}iododendron.] Lxxxri. eeicaceje. (C. B. Clarke.) 467 



KetB Journ. v. 1853, 358 ; Bot Mag. t. 5129.— Rhododendron s'p., Grif. Itin, 

 Notes, 141, n. 656. 



Bhotak ; DupUa Hills, alt. 7000 ft., Griffith, Booth. 



A large shrub. Leaves 6^ by 1-lJ in. ; base ouneate or obtuse ; petiole J in. 

 Heads closely packed ; racliis brown-villous ; pedicels j- in., nearly glabrous ; bracts 

 9 in., broadly oblong, villous. Corolla IJ in., 5-lobed. Stamens 10. Capsule ) by 

 ^ in., curred, nearly glabrous. Seeds oblong, compressed; testa somewhat lax, pro- 

 duced at both ends. — This seems allied to if. arhoreum as Nuttall suggests, differing 

 by the very narrow capsule. The leaves are described above from the Bhotan ex- 

 amples ; in Bot. Mag. t. 5129, taken from a plant grown in England, and called var. 

 latifolia, the leaves are not narrower than in the North Indian B. arboreum. 



15. R. Sbepherdli, Nutt. in Sooh. Kew Journ. v. (1853) 360 ; leaves 

 linear-oblong acute glabrous, heads dense many-flowered, calyx small 5r-lobed, 

 corolla campanulate bright-red, ovary glabrous. Bot. Mag. t. 5125. 



Bhotan ; Oola Mts., Booth. 



Nothing is knosra of this at Kew except the drawing of Mr. Holden, commu- 

 nicated and figured in Bot. Mag. t. S125. It differs from R. Kendrickii, var. latifolia., 

 in the glabrous ovary, the more developed more distinctly lobed calyx. On the faith 

 of the larger calyx it has been (by Hook. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 600) removed to the next 

 section and placed next E. Thomsoni. 



(5) Corolla yellow. 



16. R, Wig'latii, Hook. f. Rhod. Sikkim Himal. t. 27 ; leaves narrowly 

 obovate-oblong rhomboid at the base closely cinnamoneous tomentose beneath, 

 heads many-flowered somewhat lax, corolla campanulate yellow, ovary ferrugi- 

 nous woolly. Hook. f. in Jomrn. Sort. Soc. Bond. vii. 79, 99. ; Fl. des Serves, 

 viii. (1852-3) t. 792-3. 



EiST NiPAL and Sikkim; alt. 11-14,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



A shrub, 6-14 ft. Leaves 7 by 2 J in., mucronate, hardly acute, above glabrous, 

 minutely closely reticulate, beneath adpressed-tomentose ; petiole |- in., more or less 

 tomentose, not hirsute. Pedicels 10-20, ^-Li in,, hairy, sometimes glandular or 

 ferruginous ; bracts 1^ in , spathulate-oblong, silky. Calyx-lobes subobsolete. Corolla 

 1^ by 1 in., 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments scaly-woolly at the base. Ovary 10^ 

 celled. Capsvie If by J in., cylindrlc, curved, ultimately glabrescent. Seed.s linear- 

 oblong, large for Rhododendron, compressed ; testa close, produced at one end. 



17. R. lanatum, Hook. f. Bhod. Sikkim Himal. t. 16 ; leaves narrowlv 

 obovate-elliptic cuneate at the base cinnamoneous and woolly beneath, heads 

 few-flowered lax, corolla campanulate yellow, fruit ferruginous-ianate. Hook. f. 

 in Journ. Hort. Soc. Bond. vii. 79, 100; Fl. des Serres, vii. (1861-2) t. 684; 

 Bev. Hortic. 1855, t. 9. 



Sikkim Himalaya; Jongri, alt. 12-13,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



BraiicUets upwards densely woolly. Leaves 4 by 1 J in., subobtuse, more or less 

 lanate or ultimately glabrescent above except the midrib ; petiole densely woolly, not 

 hirsute. Flowers 5-7 in a head, nodding. Capsule ^-f by 1-y in. Seeds smaller 

 than those of B. Wighiii, which this species resembles except in the points 

 mentioned. 



18. R. campylocarpum, Hook. f. Bhod. Sikkim Himal. t. 30 ; leaves 

 elliptic obtuse at the base glabrous on both surfaces, heads somewhat lax, 

 corolla campanulate yellow, ovary sparsely covered with stalked glftnds. Hook. 



f. in Journ Hort. Soc. Bond. vii. 79, 101 ; Bot. Mag, t. 4968. 



East Nipal and Sikkim; alt. 11-14,000 ft., J. D. H., &c, 



A shrub, 4-8 ft. Leaves 24-3 by 14 in., obtuse, base Konnded sometimes subcor. 

 date, rarely rhomboid, minutely reticulated on both surfaces ; petiole ^-J in., with 



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