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green above, silvery or rust-coloured beneath, 5-10 inches 
long. Flowers in crowded heads, red, pink, or white, bell- 
shaped, I inch or more long, lobes five, small, stamens ten. 
Represented by several distinct varieties named Campbellice, 
Windsori, cinnamoneuniy album, &c. Tender. 
R. aucubaefolium. — China. 1900. A faked species. 
Leaves of Daphniphyllum and flowers of a Rhododendron. 
Done by Ah Sin ! 
R. Augustinii. —Chm 3 ,. 1900. A shrub resembling R. 
Yunnanense. Leaves lance-shaped, 2-4 inches long. Flowers 
shallow, bell-shaped, with wide-spreading crisped lobes 
about 2J inches across, white, pink, or purple. Hardy. 
R. auriculatum. — China. 1900. A shrub or tree up to 
30 feet. Evergreen. Leaves leathery, oblong, 8-12 inches, 
lobed at the base. Flowers bell-shaped, 3 inches long, 4 
inches wide, white or rose. Closely allied to R, Griffi- 
thianum. Tender. 
R. barbatum, — Himalaya, 12,000 feet. 1829. A shrub 
or tree up to 40 feet. Evergreen. Leaves oblong, 8 inches 
by 2 inches, distinctly reticulated, green on both sides, 
petiole usually clothed with bristly hairs. Flowers in 
crowded, compact heads, bell-shaped, 14 inches wide, five- 
lobed, blood-red. Tender. 
R. Benthamianum.—Chim. 1907. A shrub up to 10 
feet. Evergreen. Allied to R. Yunnanense, from which it 
differs in its more densely scaled leaves and in the flowers 
being purple-violet, usually in threes, and over 2 inches 
across. Tender. 
R. Boothii. — Bhotan, 8000 feet. 1858. A straggling 
bush, 6 feet, epiphytic. Evergreen. Leaves elliptic, covered 
with rust hairs when young, glabrous when mature, the 
margins sometimes ciliate, 5 inches long. Flowers in dense 
