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RHODODENDRON JAVANICUM. 
yellow, was recently discovered, along with our present subject, by Mr. Thomas ! i 
Lobb, and was flowered by Messrs. Veitch and Son, the introducers, and beautifully li 
figured by Sir William Hooker, in the “ Botanical Magazine,” t. 4336. j 
Our plant, which is supposed to be the true Vireya Javanica of Blume, has | 
blossoms of a much deeper orange than the one figured in the “ Botanical Magazine,” j 
and the hue is so rich that the flowers themselves must be seen for an adequate idea ^ 
to be formed of their splendour. 1 
Messrs. Veitch received a dried specimen having upwards of thirteen flowers in 
a truss, an individual flower measuring about three inches in diameter. In the 
nursery of these gentlemen, at Exeter, we noticed plants not more than a foot high, 
showing abundance of bloom. | 
It requires the temperature of a greenhouse, and the same treatment as that f j 
given to Rhododendron arboreum and its hybrids, and is increased by layers, or 
grafting upon other stocks. 
Our drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch, Exeter, in Sept. 1848. j 
The generic name is derived from Rhodon, a rose, and dendron, a tree, in allusion O 
to the inflorescence. 
