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tained by Mr. CURTIS in Solok in Sumatra, and sent home to 

 Mr. VEITCH, who cultivated it in England. It seems, to me 

 however, that this so-called variety is specifically quite dis- 

 tinct from Rhododendron javanicum.) which is also a native of 

 the Peninsula. 



Rhododendron javanicum, Benn., is based on a plant found 

 in Java by Dr. HORSFIELD, and is figured and described in 

 Bennett & Horsfield's Plants? Javanxcse Rariores (Tab. 

 xix), and I have what is evidently the same plant from Gunong 

 Hijau in Perak, collected by Mr. CURTIS, but the tube of the 

 flowers is rather shorter and more infundibuliform. The 

 Singapore plant differs from the true javanicum in the leaves, 

 which are shorter, thicker and blunter and more conspicuously 

 dotted with glands, and the base of the blade is not narrowed 

 into the petiole, but ends abruptly. The flowers are nodding 

 on rather long pedicels. The tube is very long in proportion 

 to the limb, nearly 1^ inch, the lobes of the limb are short, 

 broad and rounded, about half an inch long. Th° tube is cylin- 

 dric, slightly curved, and when alive grooved at the base, where, 

 as in the Perak plant, it is almost funnel shaped, with very 

 large lobes to the limb. The stamens again are much thinner, 

 the anther only half the size. The style is thick and the stigma 

 large and somewhat trilobed in the Perak plant and in BEN- 

 NETT'S figure, whereas in our plant the style is thin, with a much 

 smaller more simple stigma. These points are so marked, that 

 it appears to me that the two plants should be specifically 

 separated. It is very possible that the Singapore plant may 

 be identical with Rh. longiflorum, Lindl, a plant which has 

 been found in Borneo at sea level by Professor BECCARI, 

 whose description fits it fairly well, but I have not here 

 LiNDLEY'S original description of that plant. 



Besides this species, there are four other kinds of Rhododen- 

 dron in the Malay Peninsula. 



Rh. malayanum, Jack, which is the commonest, occurs on 

 Mount Ophir, Gunong Hijau, and Maxwell's Hill, and in other 

 mountains of the central range, and also in Sumatra, Java and 

 Celebes. It is a straggling plant with small crimson flowers. 



Rh. jasminiflorum, Hook., with clusters of white jessamine- 

 like flowers, only known from Mount Ophir. 



