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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38991 to 39101— Continued. 



growing on the ground and rocks. The stems are 2 to 6 feet in length 

 and are as thlcli as a goose quill. The leaves are 2 to 3 inches in length, 

 spreading, rery thick and coriaceous, deep green above, and very stout. 

 The flowers are IJ inches in diameter, white, and of a very thick texture." 

 (Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pi, 4932.) 



39057. Rhododendron campanulatum Don. Ericaceae. 



Bhododendron. 



"This is a large shrub found in the inner Himalayas from Kashmir 

 to Bhutan, at altitudes between 9,000 and 14,000 feet. It occurs also 

 on the outer ranges of the Chor and Kedarkanta and is very abundant 

 in Sikkim. The leaves of this species are exported to the plains, where 

 they are ground up with tobacco and used as snuff, which is said to 

 be useful in colds and hemicrania. The wood is light pinkish in color 

 and moderately hard." (Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of 

 India.) 



"An evergreen shrub of stiff, spreading habit, 6 to 12 feet high, more 

 in diameter; bark peeling; young shoots smooth. Leaves oval, 3 to 5i 

 inches long, 1^ to 21 inches wide ; abruptly tapering at the apex, tapering, 

 rounded, or slightly heart shaped at the base, smooth above, densely 

 covered beneath with a red-brown felt; stalk one-half to 1 inch long, 

 often reddish. Flowers rosy purple of numerous shades, 2 inches across, 

 produced during April in rather loose clusters about 4 inches wide. 

 Corolla broadly bell shaped, with 5 notched lobes, the upper ones dark 

 purple spotted; calyx downy, small and scarcely lobed; stamens 10, 

 smooth or sometimes downy towards the base; flower stalk about 1 

 inch long. 



"Native of the interior Himalayas of Sikkim and Nepal; introduced 

 in 1825. This is perhaps tlie hardiest and most satisfactory of Himalayan 

 rhododendrons near London, where it flowers regularly and profusely. 

 In very cold weather (and it withstands uninjured 32 degrees of frost) 

 its leaves roll themselves up tightly, giving the shrub a very curious 

 aspect. It is very variable in the color of the flowers, which are some- 

 times quite pale, sometimes of a bright bluish purple, sometimes lilac; 

 in the amount of felt at the back of the leaf ; and in the color of the 

 leaf scales that accompany the young bursting shoots, which are some- 

 times rich crimson, sometimes green." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. SJ^I.) 



39058. Rhododendron campylocarpum Hook. f. Ericaceae. 



Khododendron. 



" This is a small bush 6 feet high, roundish in form, of a bright, cheer- 

 ful green hue, which, when loaded with its inflorescences of surpassing 

 delicacy and grace, claims precedence over its more gaudy congeners and 

 has been regarded by some as the most charming of the Sikkim rhodo- 

 dendrons. The plant exhales a grateful honeyed flavor from its lovely 

 bells, and a resinous sweet odor from the stipitate glands of the petiole, 

 pedicels, calyx, and capsules." {Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, pi. 4^68.) 



"An evergreen shrub, 4 to 8 feet high, of neat, bushy habit. Leaves 

 2^ to 4 inches long, half as wide, heart shaped or rounded at the base, 

 the apex with a short, abrupt tip, upper surface dark glossy green, lower 

 one vividly blue-white; stalk one-half to 1 inch long, thickly set with 



