468 Lxxxii. ERiCACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Blwdodendron. 



scattered stalked glands or glabrescent. Flowers few or many in the head ; pedicels 

 1-1 J in., very glandular upwards; bracts 1 in., spathulate-oblong, hairy. Corolla 

 IJ by 1 in. >Stem«M« 10; filaments glabrous. Owary 6-celled. CopsaZe } by i in., 

 subcylindrie, much curved, with scattered stalked glands or ultimately nearly glabrous 

 and shining. Seeds oblong, compressed ; testa close, produced at one end. 



** Calyx deeply-lohed or dilated. 



t Branchleta not woolly. 



19. It. Griffitllianuiii, Wight Ic. t. 1203 ; leaves oblong subacute gla- 

 brous, calyx widely saucershaped margin subentire, corolla white. Sook.f. in 

 Joum. Sort. Soc. Lond. vii. 76, 93 ; Bot. 'Mag. t. 5065. R. Aucklandii, Hook, 

 f. Rhod. Sikkim Simal. t. 11 ; Jtev. Sortie. 1855, t. 5; Regel GaHenfl. (1866) 

 t. 517. R. oblongum, Griff. le. PI. Asiat. t. 523. — Rhododendron sp.. Griff. 

 Itin. Notes, 192, n. 1045. 



SiZKiM and Bhotan, alt. 7-9000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H., &e. 



A tree, 40 ft. ; also (as most of the other Rhododendron trees) not rarely flowering 

 as a shrub 4-8 ft. Leaves 7 by 2 in., exactly oblong with subparallel sides, rounded 

 or cuneate at the base ; petiole 1 in. Pedicels 2-5, 1-2 in., with large flowers, or 

 numerous subpanided with smaller flowers ; bracts IJ in., linear-oblong villose. 

 Calyx in flower ^ in. diara., patent ; in fruit often enlarged, unequal, or torn. Corolla 

 1^2| in., widely funnel-shaped, often spotted pink. Stamens 12-18; filaments 

 glabrous or nearly so. Ovary 12-celled, glandular-pubescent. Capsule Ij by f in., 

 short-cylindric, very woody, at length glabrous. Seeds ellipsoid, compressed ; testa 

 lax, appearing as a margin completely (or nearly) surrounding the seed. 



20. R. Thomsoni, Sook.f. Rhod. Sikkim Simal. t. 12; leaves broadly 

 elliptic obtuse at both ends, calyx cup-shaped obscurely unequally lobed, 

 corolla deep crimson. Sook. f. in Joum. Sort. Soc. Lond. vii. 77, 99 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4997; Fl. des Serres, viii. (1851-2) t. 688-90; Mori: Bdg. Sortie. Vm. 

 33, t. 10 ; Rev. Sortie. 1855, t. 7. 



East Nipai, and Sikkim ; alt. 11-13,000 ft., common, J. D. H., &c. 



A large shrub, 6-15 ft. Leaves 3 by If in., often cordate at the base, glaucous 

 beneath, finely reticulated ; petiole J-f in. Pedicels f-1 in., glabrous or nearly so; 

 bracts 1-1^ in., spathulate oblong, hairy. Calyx in flower ^ in., in fruit enlarged, 

 often very unequal on one side, more or less lobed or lacerate, glaucous, glabrous. 

 Corolla 1-1 J in., wide-fuunelshaped. Stamens 10. Ovary glabrous, G-lO-celled. 

 Capsule 5 by ^ in., glaucous purple. Seeds linear-oblong compressed ; testa produced 

 at each end, otherwise scarcely lax. 



Vae. Candelabrum, Hook. f. ; calyx shorter and with the ovary sparingly stalked- 

 glandular. E. Candelabra, Hook. f. Ehod. Sikkim HimMl. t. 29. — Sikkim, J. D. H. 



Var. flocculosa ; leaves beneath cinnamoneous floceulose or furfuraeeous. — Sikkim, 

 Clarke. 



21. R. ZZookeri, Nittt. in Sook. Keio Joum. v. (1853) ; leaves oblong 

 obtuse at both ends squamulose on the nerves beneath, calyx cupshaped ob- 

 scurely unequally lobed glabrous. Sook. Bot. Mag. t. 4926. 



Bhotan; Oola Mts., alt. 7-8000 ft., Booth. 



Leaves 4-5 by lJ-2 in.; petiole 1 in., otherwise as E. Thomsoni, of which it may 

 be a var. The leaves are not so furfuraeeous beneath as in if. Thomsoni, var. floccu^ 

 losa, but they are much longer than in any of the numerous examples of R. Thomsoni 

 itself. 



22. R. barbatum, Wall. Cat. 757; leaves oblong acute glabrous the 

 midrib beneath and petiole often coarsely bristly, heads many-flowered dense, 

 calyx-lobes large elliptic, corolla campanulate deep red. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 

 844 ; DC. Prodr. yii. 721 ; Sook. f. Rhod. Sikkim Simal. t. 3 and in Joum. Swt. 

 ^oc. Lond. vii. 77, 91 ; Fl. des Serres, v. (1849) t. 469-72 ; MotT. Belg. Sortie. 



