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Rhododendron ghutciun . 
Rhododendron glatjcum, Hooker, fd. Glaucous-leaved Rhododendron. (Hook., Sikkim Mod., t. IS). — Nat 
Ord., Ericaeea; § Rhododendron. — A small evergreen and very handsome shrub, of the average height of two. 
feet, with branches of the size of a goose-quill. The leaves are oblong, or broadly lanceolate, with a mucro, 
about three inches long, and one and a half inch broad, deep green above, and remarkably glaucous beneath. 
The umbels of seven or eight flowers grow from the ends of the branches, the flowers being a " pale pinkish 
purple," the tube eampanulatc, more than an inch long, and about as broad across the spreading limb of five 
rounded cmarginate lobes. The whole plant has a powerful resinous smell. From Sikkim Himalaya, on the 
rocky depressed ridges of Chola, Lachcn, and Lachoong, at an elevation of from 10 to 12,000 feet. Introduced, 
we presume, in 1850. Flowers in June. 
Cerascs nepalensis, Scringe. Nepal Bird Cherry. {Paxt. Fk Gurd., ii., 81.) — Nat. Ord., Drupaceoe. — A 
hardy deciduous tree, much like the common Bird-cherry. The leaves are cordate at the base, oblong, drawn out 
to a long acuminate point, glaucous beneath. The flowers are in spike-like racemes, white, smaller than in the 
common species. From Northern India. Introduced about 1848. Flowers in June. Horticultural Society of 
London. 
Pitcairnia montaltiensis, Linden. (Part. Ft. Card., ii., 83) — Nat. Ord., Bromcliacea;. — A handsome rine- 
npple-likc, stove perennial, having long linear-lanceolate leaves, smooth and shining on both sides, and spiny- toothed 
at the base ; the flowers are produced on a short spike, on a scape as long as the leaves, and arc about two 
inches long, and described as being scarlet-red. From New Grenada. Introduced to the Continental gardens. 
Flowers in ? 
Ehryiua ALrtNA, Lindletj. Alpine Eurybia (Port. Fl. Gard., ii., 81) — Nat. Ord., Astcracca: $ Tubuliflorte- 
Astcrcoc. — A hardy or nearly hardy evergreen shrub, with stout angular sub-tomentose branches, bearing alternate 
coriaceous, oblong-acute toothed leaves, shining above, and pallid beneath, with adpressed down. The Bower- 
heads are in dense panicles, the ray florets dirty white. It is hardy at Exeter. From New Zealand, Introduced 
about 1818. Flowers in Jl ay. Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. 
Catucaktia VTLLOSA, Hooker, fd. Villous Cathcartia. (Bot. Mag., t. 4596). — Nat. Ord., Papaveraceoe. — A 
new genus of Papaveracese, forming a showy, hardy, poppy-like annual, or biennial plant, clothed on the stems 
and leaves with long fulvous spreading hairs. The stem is round, and nearly simple. The radical leaves cordate 
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