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[Rhododendron Lochae. Arborescent,somewhatscandent; leaves 
persistent, mostly whorled, some scattered, conspicuously stalked, flat, 
nearly ovate, rather blunt, glabrous, well veined, minutely scaly-dotted 
beneath; flowers rather large, in terminal umbelliform fascicles on very 
conspicuous stalklets; bracts cuneate or spatular-ovate, glabrescent; 
calyx rudimentary, oblique-patellar or sometimes variously short-lobed • 
corolla bright-red, glabrous but scaly-dotted outside, slightly hairy inside 
the lower portion broadly cylindncal, the upper portion bluntly five- 
lobed and conspicuously veined; stamens ten, slightly emerging from 
the corolla-tube; filaments short hairy towards the base; anthers very 
small, ellipsoid-cylindrical; style nearly as long as the filaments, short- 
hairy to about the middle; indusium truncate; stigma slightly lobed; 
fruit narrow- ellipsoid, about as long as the stalklet or longer, short- 
hairy, five-celled ; seeds conspicuously appendiculated. 
r On Bellenden-Ker, at an elevation of about 
5000 feet. W. Sayer and A. Davidson. 
This beautiful and singularly local plant, which attains a height of 
twenty feet, is cognate to R. Javanirum, from which it differs in longer 
petioles, blunter leaves, smooth pedicels, somewhat smaller flowers, as 
well as more hairy style and fruit. In some respects this Australian 
species approaches also R. Griffithianum, bu the disposition and colour 
of the flowers are very different. From R. Celebicum it is easily distin- 
guished by broader not acute leaves with not concealed veins, by not 
scaly pedicels, by mostly not narrow bracts, by larger lobes of the 
corolla and not scaly ovary. From R. Arfakianum it is separated 
already by glabrous pedicels, by the lobes of the corolla being shorter 
than the tube and by shorter stamens. 
in 1855 the writer of these notes saw (on his passage with 
Mr. Gregory to what is now called the Kimberley-Country) from 
near the coast also the bold outlines of Mount Bellenden-Ker, the highest 
mount of tropical Australia, towering to 5000 feet, he was led to think, 
that the upper region might prove to be the home of species of Rho¬ 
dodendron, Vaccinium, Quercus, Begonia and Tmpatiens, forms of plants 
charactenstic of cool Malayan sylvan regions; yet these anticipations 
became not realised. But Messrs. Sayer and Davidson, while 
accomplishing quite recently the only ascent hitherto made of Mount 
Bellenden-Ker, have now demonstrated by their botanic collections, 
that really a Rhododendron and a plant akin to Vaccinium do exist 
on the summit of that mountain as an entirely new feature in the 
flora of this part of the globe. 
The dedication of the only Australian Rhododendron to Lady Loch, 
is m special recognition of the patronage, given by her Ladyship to 
Victorian Horticulture and in particular to that very group of plant, 
the occurence of which in the Australian Vegetation is now only rendered 
known, more than 80 years after the discovery of Mt. Bellenden-Ker. 
A gapetes Meiniana. Tall, somewhat climbing, glabrous through- 
out; leaves rather large, scattered, on short stalks, coriaceous, from 
^ anceo ^ ar roundish-ovate, acuminate, generally rounded at 
the base, not denticulated, shining on both sides, dark-green above, 
pale-green beneath and there dotted with minute scattered glands, 
strongly five-nerved from near the base, the veins amply reticulated 
and partly prominent; pedicels axillary or lateral, three or two together 
or solitary, with two minute deltoid bracteoles near the base; calyx 
campanular-semiovate, separable by articulation from the pedicel, 
almost truncate, only minutely denticulated; corolla several times longer 
