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throat, and a variety of R. catawbiense , with dark rose-coloured flowers, 
called Favourite. It may be observed here, for the benefit of all who 
purchase hybrid varieties of Rhododendrons, that all the hybrids raised 
between the Nepaul plant and the American species, R. catawbiense , are 
much hardier than those raised between the Tree Rhododendron and the 
Asiatic species, R. ponticum , though there is but little difference, in 
British gardens, between the comparative hardiness of the two species 
themselves. All kinds of Rhododendrons require abundance of water; 
and their flagging leaves show how much they suffer even by temporary 
drought. They also thrive most if grown partially in the shade; and the 
lower part of the stem, particularly the point which the roots spring from, 
is very much injured if it is allowed to remain long exposed to the 
burning heat of the sun. Nature has shrouded this part, by making the 
lower branches touch the ground ; but it is often exposed in plants which 
have been submitted to the operations of art. 
1. RHODODENDRON ANTHOPOGON, D. Don. THE SWEET-SCENTED 
YELLOW RHODODENDRON. 
Synonyms. —R. aromaticum, Wall. 
Engravings. —Royle, Illust. t. 64 ; and our fig. 1 in Plate 6. 
Specific Character. —Branchlets downy ; leaves oval, rusty beneath, from lepidoted tomen- 
tum ; corollas with a woolly throat. Shrub much branched. Leaves ending in a reflexed 
mucrone, naked above. Flowers glomerate, sulphur-coloured. Pedicels short, lepidoted 
and resinous. Calycine segments rounded at the apex, with villous margins. Segments 
of corolla roundish, with undulately curled margins. Filaments glabrous. Stigma 
clavate.—( G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —This is a low-growing species, a native of the 
highest parts of the Himalaya mountains, being sometimes found 14,000 
feet above the level of the sea. It is often confused with R. barbatum , 
which has rose-coloured flowers, but which it resembles in the flowers being 
hairy inside the throat. It is a dwarf plant, with very aromatic leaves. 
Both this and the following species are seldom met with in the nurseries, 
though this species is marked in the catalogues as introduced in 1824. 
2.—RHODODENDRON LEPIDOTUM, Wall. THE SPOTTED 
RHODODENDRON. 
Engravings. —Royle, Illust. t. 64, and our fig. 2 in Plate 6. 
Specific Character.— Every part of tbe plant is beset with ferruginous scale-like dots ; leaves 
spatulate or lanceolate, attenuated at the base, beset with round scale-like dots, as well as 
the branchlets, ferruginous beneath ; calycine segments rounded ; corollas short, campa- 
nulate, lepidoted, with roundish entire lobes ; capsules also lepidoted ; filaments woolly at 
the base.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —This plant has pink flowers, and, according to Dr. 
Royle, it is delightfully aromatic. It is also a dwarf plant, and it is found 
