Plate 10. 
LOBB’S RHODODENDRON. 
Rhododendron Lobbianum. 
This very handsome yellow Rhododendron, which was awarded 
a first-class certificate by the Floral Committee of the Horticul¬ 
tural Society, at its meeting on March 8th of the present year, 
as being one of the finest yellow-flowered kinds in cultiva¬ 
tion, is intermediate in character between B. javanicum and 
B. BrooJceanum , to which latter it was at first thought to be¬ 
long. The flowers, indeed, with their oblong, refuse, distinct 
segments and yellow converging anthers, are those of BrooJce¬ 
anum altered in colour, but the entire habit and the foliage 
agree much more closely with javanicum , so that it is really dis¬ 
tinct from both. This being so, the plant requires to be distin¬ 
guished by some other name, and we find none more appropriate 
than that of Mr. Thomas Lobb, its discoverer, by whom it was 
sent from Penang to Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of Exeter and 
Chelsea. It is a very handsome plant, and quite distinct in a 
garden point of view. We regret, since it has proved to be dis¬ 
tinct, that the details of the flowers themselves were not more 
min utely examined. 
The plant forms a comparatively slender shrub, with terete 
branches, scaly while young, and bearing the leaves chiefly on 
JPlate 10.— Rhododendron Lobbianum : branches terete, leafy towards 
the end; leaves thin fleshy, or subcoriaceons, flat, elliptic-lanceolate, some¬ 
what acuminate, acute at the base, stalked, dark-green, with minute scales 
above, paler and finely punctate beneath, having little scales seated in the 
dots ; umbels 6-8-flowered; calyx obsolete ; corolla funnel-shaped below, with 
a dilated base, the segments of the spreading limb distinct, roundish-oblong, 
subundulate, retuse, pale buff-yellow; stamens about equalling the tube; 
the anthers convergent. 
Rhododendron Brookeanum, var. elavum, of gardens . Proceed. Hort . 
Soc. i. 161. 
