HIMALAYAN RHODODENDRONS 
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very beautiful. At Trebah, a pale pink variety 
of this species is often a mass of bloom in 
February. A very common Rhododendron in 
South Devon and Cornwall, which grows into 
a huge bush and bears deep rose-red flowers, 
is evidently allied to this species. 
R. barbatum. — A shrub deriving its name 
from the black hairs that clothe the petiole. 
Its blood-red flowers, borne in a close truss, 
are i -finches across the cup, anditsleaves about 
6 inches long. There are many fine examples 
in the south-west, one, at Tre- 
mough, being 1 6 feet in height 
and 24 feet through. In the 
same gardens there are many 
varieties of R. barbatum {pi\- 
dently crosses withi?. ^r^^orf^/w) 
which deserve naming. They 
generally lack the hairy ap- 
pendages on the petiole. Some 
are very beautiful, a fine bush 
of a flesh-coloured form of bar- 
batum being especially good. 
R. calophyllum. — A fine, large- 
flowered species, met with in 
a few collections. Its flowers are 
4 inches across and are white, 
tinged with yellow at the base 
of the tube. The glossy-green 
leaves are about 5 inches in 
length. 
R. campanulatum. — This is 
considered to be hardier than 
most of the Sikkim Rhododen- 
drons. Its flowers vary in col- 
our from pale purple to white 
slightly tinged with lavender, and its leaves 
are coated on the under side with reddish down. 
There is a good specimen, about 12 feet in 
height, at Trewidden, Penzance. A form 
known as Wallichi has brighter flowers than 
the type. 
R. campylocarpum. — A very beautiful species 
and fairly hardy, bearing pale yellow, slightly 
fragrant flowers about 2\ inches across, carried 
in loose trusses. Its leaves are about 3 inches 
in length and 2 inches in breadth, and are 
glaucous on the under sides. The foliage is very 
distinct. This Rhododendron is an abundant 
bloomer, bushes being often so covered with 
blossom that scarcely a leaf is visible. Associ- 
ated with the vermilion-flowered Embothrium 
coccineum it forms a striking picture. The 
largest bush that I know — at Whiteway — is 
9 feet in height and 9^ feet through ; but 
there are many fine plants in other gardens. 
R. ciliatum. — A somewhat dwarf-growing 
species, bearing pinkish-white flowers under 
3 inches across, in small, loose trusses. A free- 
flowering kind, from which a number of hy- 
brids, such as R. precox and others, have been 
raised. The largest bush I have seen is growing 
Rhododendron Falconeri. 
at Tremough, and is over 6 feet in height and 
18 feet through. 
R. cinnabarinum. — A species bearing long, 
tubular flowers of cinnabar-red tipped with 
yellow, but most variable. The variety Roy lei, 
of which there is a fine bush at Enys, bears 
small flowers of a soft reddish-pink, the waxy 
petals being covered with a grape-like bloom. 
R. Blandfordicejiorum is now classed with this 
species. 
R. Dalhousice. — This is rarely met with in 
the open. I have seen it at Tremough, grow- 
ing close to a wall, about 7 feet in height, 
bearing in the first week of June its yellowish- 
white flowers, some 4 inches across. 
