THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, June ]6, 1857. it3 
luxuriantly upon the sandstone rocks, which are covered 
with moss and decaying leaves to the height ot’ from four to 
six feet. The seeds have tails, and, with the exception of 
its place of growth, it resembles the other Bornean species. 
It flowers all the year round.” 
Its leaves are six or seven inches long, and about one 
inch and a half broad. The flowers are nearly three 
inches long, and about two across the limb. They are of a 
rich fiery red, with a pale violet-coloured throat. The 
anthers are deep brown. In the drawing before me 
they are uniformly represented as having one or two 
of their lobes bent downwards more than the othefs. 
This peculiarity is also traceable in the dried specimens. 
The accompanying figure is much reduced below the 
natural size, as will be evident from tho 
measurements given above. 
Rhododendron verticillatum. 
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Rhododendron verticillatum. 
Low. 
SEEDLING PETUNIAS. 
I perfectly coincide with Mr* Beaton in his remarks, 
page 130, as to the effectiveness of these plants in the 
flower garden, and have used them extensively for some 
years past, both in beds and also in the borders. Those 
who have a large space to fill with plants for summer de¬ 
coration cannot, I am sure, have for that purpose a more 
useful or more effective plant. No bed or border can pos¬ 
sibly look more beautiful if care is taken in the selection of 
varieties. My practice is to save only from a few of the 
very best seedlings, and it is astonishing how very much 
superior they are in every respect to what they were when I 
commenced saving the 
seed eight or 
ten years ago. Not 
only are they highly ornamental, but of such easy manage¬ 
ment that a pinch of seed sown as Mr. Beaton suggests will 
produce innumerable plants, for which I seldom or never use 
pots. When large enough to handle I prick them off into 
shallow boxes on the west Kent pot principle, described 
by me four or five years since. The soil I use is leaf mould, 
with a gefod portion of silver sand. They are hardened by 
degrees until fit to finally transplant, which is done from 
box to border with admirable success.— George Fry, Manor 
House , Lec i Kent. 
Sp. Char. Young branches slightly downy. 
Leaves oblong, obtuse, stalked, heart- 
shaped at the base, downy on the petiole 
and midrib, dotted abundantly on the 
under side, arranged in irregular whorls. 
Peduncles downy, as long as the flowers. 
Calyx obsolete. Corolla nearly campanu- 
late, with an erect five-lobed limb. Anthers 
projecting, erect. 
Of this plant I have seen no drawing, and 
the dried specimens are imperfect. It is, 
however, perfectly distinct from the other 
Malay Rhododendrons. Mr. Low has the 
following note about in his Journal , 
October 14, 184G :— 
“ Near the top of the mountain (Gunong 
Penerissen, 4700 feet) I discovered a plant 
of the smaller-leaved Rhododendron, which, 
for distinction’s sake, I call R. verticillatum, 
in flower. On procuring it, which was done 
with some difficulty, as it w T as epiphytal on a 
tree overhanging the rocky side of the 
mountain, it had but one head of expanded 
flowers, which were of a reddish crimson 
colour, without spots. It was of large size in 
proportion to the leaves and stems, being ten 
inches in diameter, and very compact. The 
leaves are verticillate, many in a whorl, and the 
wood-buds are closely imbricated with scales, 
broad at the base, and with recurved points. 
The roots are long and fleshy, like those of 
the yellow Rhododendron ( Brookeanum ). It 
is found on the sides of the Dacrydiums and 
other trees, which are covered at that height 
with large and long moss. The atmosphere 
is very damp, and at night the thermometer 
stood at 64° F.” 
The leaves of this plant are in form like 
those of Rhododendron, campamdatum , but 
are entirely free from the rusty down which 
covers the under side of that species. In its 
room the surface is thickly studded with 
minute ferruginous points. They are convex, 
revolute at the edge, and the largest four 
inches long by two and a quarter wflde. The 
flowers are between two and three inches 
long, and about one inch and three quarters 
across the limb.—( Dr. Bindley , in Horti- 
cultural Society’s Journal.) 
(7’o be continued.) 
