PAXTON’S 
MAGAZINE OF GARDENING AND BOTANY. 
RHODODENDRON CAMPANULATUM SUPERBUM. 
(Superb Bell-flowered Rose-bay). 
Class, Decandria. Order, Monogynja. Nat. 
Generic Character.— Calyx five-parted, or five-toothed. 
Corolla somewhat funnel-shaped, or campanulate ; rarely 
rotate or five-parted ; limb five-cleft, somewhat bilabiate ; 
upper lip broadest, usually spotted. Stamens ten, usually 
exserted, declinate, sometimes from five to nine, and abor- 
tive. Anthers opening by two terminal pores. Capsule five- 
celled, five-valved ; rarely ten-celled and ten-valved, with a 
septicidal dehiscence at the apex. Placentas single, angular. 
Seeds compressed, winged. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub. Leaves 
elliptic-oblong, mucronate, rather cordate at the base; 
Order, Ericaceae. (Heath-worts, Veg. Kingd.) 
under-surface clothed with fine scaly pubescence, at first of 
a purplish hue, afterwards changing to nearly white, and 
finally to a deep ferrugineous brown. Flowers copious, dis- 
posed in corymbose clusters, very large. Pedicels glabrous, 
Bracts fringed. Corollas pale-pink, changing to white, 
having the uppper lip marked with irregular purple spots; 
segments flat, emarginate. Filaments bearded at the base. 
Ovary six-celled, glabrous. 
Superbum. — Flowers pure white, the upper lip spotted 
copiously, in very large clusters, holding twenty-three or 
twenty-four flowers ; in other respects like the species. 
This beautiful hybrid was raised by Mr. Jackson, of the Kingston Nursery, Surrey, from 
as he supposes seeds of R. campanulatum, although it is the opinion of Dr. Lindley that 
the kind is more nearly allied by the form of its flowers to R. ponticum than the bell- 
flowered Kosebays. 
It is perfectly hardy, and on this account is a great acquisition ; the foliage is fine, the 
truss of flowers immensely large, the individual blossoms are of a transparent, waxy white, 
the two upper segments are liberally spotted with rich crimson purple, and the throat also 
is spotted with brown. 
Our drawing of this fine hardy plant was made in May, 1849, through the kindness of 
Mr. Jackson, who sent a bunch of the bloom to our artist. 
Its cultivation is attended with no more difficulty than that of R. ponticum, merely 
requiring to be planted in a bed of sandy peat, or any other light soil in a situation in 
the flower-garden, where it cannot be injured by drought, drying winds, or too bright 
sunlight. 
Propagation is effected by layers or enarching on the common kinds. 
The generic name is derived from rhodon, a rose, and dendron, a tree. 
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