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This'plant is a shrub growing more than three feet high, with alternate branches, glabrous below, and at 
the upper part studded with numerous long glandular hairs. The leaves are alternate, persistent, oblong 
elliptical, obtuse, slightly mucronate, entire, soft and hairy on both sides when young, thick and somewhat 
coriaceous when old, and then hairy only on the middle nerve and petiole. The flowers are pale rose, marked 
with lines of a deeper tinge, and borne at the summit of the branches in compact corymbs as in Rhododendron ; 
the peduncles and calyx have long glandular hairs, and the latter is cut into six sharp lobes; the corolla consists 
of six obtuse, oblong, or nearly spathulate petals ; there are twelve stamens as long as the petals, with reddish 
filaments hairy at the base; the style is terminated by a discoid stigma. It grows in the elevated regions between 
Carraccas and Merida.” 
Among the Bejarias that the garden of Paris has received from M. Linden, there is one designated 
Bejaria sp. which appears to come near B. Lindeniana, having leaves of the same form and vesti- 
ture, but the flowers are perhaps different. Other species introduced by M. Linden are the following 
R. myi tifolia (Herincq) ; R. cestuans (herb. Linden, 775), is a branching shrub, with nearly opposite 
branches, studded when young with long hairs, not glandular. The leaves are almost verticillate, shortly-stalked, 
lanceolate-attenuated at the apex, entire, with the lateral nerves rather prominent, at first thinly scattered with 
hairs, then neaily glabrous, glaucous below. The flowers are of a beautiful bright carmine, arranged in short 
teiminal coiymbose racemes, generally furnished with small leaves at the base of the peduncles ; the rachis 
clothed with thick short wool, intermixed with long hairs, not glandular, and which disappear with age ; the 
peduncles are one-flowered, somewhat hairy; the calyx glutinous, hairy at the inferior part, cut almost to the base in 
Aer y acute segments ; the corolla has glutinous oblong petals ; the stamens hairy at the base, as long as the petals ; 
the style terminated by a thick capitate stigma. This plant is found on the brow of the mountains of Bogota in 
]S T ew Grenada, where also is found the true R. cestuans, with which M. Linden has confounded it. The R. cestuans, 
(Mutis) is a shrub more than six feet in height, having the habit of Rhododendron hirsutum ; its branches are open, 
geneially opposite, studded with long glandular hairs when young. The leaves are nearly sessile, oblong 
elliptical, acute, entire, without lateral nerves, downy below, and having a few glandular hairs above when young, 
then glabrous, almost smooth on the upper face, and with reddish hairs beneath; they are about an inch in 
length. The flowers are beautiful red, disposed in compact simple terminal panicles ; the peduncles one-flowered, 
very hairy ; the calyx large, hairy, cut nearly to the middle into broad and sharply-pointed lobes; the corolla 
very open, with lanceolate or nearly spathulate obtuse petals, four times larger than the calyx; the stamens hairy 
at the base, as long as the petals, and shorter than the style. This species, which was the first discovered by 
Mutis, grows near Santa Fe-de-Bogota, on the chain of calcareous mountains, at an elevation of from nine to ten 
thousand feet above the level of the sea. [Introduced about 1846.] 
R. drymifolium (Linden) is a branching shrub, of upright habit; branches elongated, glabrous. The leaves are 
oblong, gi adually attenuated at both extremities, nearly pointed, green above, paler and nearly glaucous below, 
with the lateral nerves prominent, perfectly glabrous on both faces, two inches and a half in length, and having 
rather long petioles. The flowers are pure white, arranged at the summit of the branches in lengthened panicles 
or paniculated racemes, the rachis clothed with short thick down in a young state ; the peduncles downy, one- 
flowered ; the calyx at first slightly downy, then viscous, deeply cut into obtuse lobes, about four times shorter than 
the petals, the style projecting beyond the petals, terminated by a large capitate and furrowed stigma. It grows 
m the province of Pampelona, New Grenada, at an altitude between’five thousand and six thousand feet. This 
species, which has some analogy with R. glauca , is distinguished from that by its leaves being longer, by the 
pubescence on the flower-stalk, and by its white flowers. R. densa (jnicrophylla, Planchon), which we only know 
from the small specimen at the Museum, appears very like R. cestuans , sent by M. Linden himself, but his flowers, 
instead of being of a brilliant carmine colour, as this is, are rose-coloured. 
R. tricolor (Linden). According to M. Linden, this plant has the stems ferruginous, and the leaves smooth. 
Flowers very beautiful, white and rose, marked with yellow, at the base of the petals. These four latter species 
have been procured for the French gardens from New Grenada, by Messrs. Funck and Schlim. 
[Lhere is in the English gardens another species, the R. cinnamomea (Lindley), which is described as a shrub, 
with downy and hairy branches, furnished with leaves which are covered on the lower side with bright brown 
wool. The flowers grow in close terminal panicles, and have very woolly and hispid stalks and calyces; the 
blossoms are purple, apparently smaller than those of R. coarctata. It has been found in Peru, on the Andes of 
Caxamarca, at the height of eight thousand feet, and was introduced into England in 1846 or 1847, bv Messrs 
Veitch.] 
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ILflHIS novel introduction to our gardens from the Swan River colony, has been raised by Messrs. 
Henderson and Co., of the Pine Apple Nursery, and was, we believe, collected by Mr. Drummond, 
wno has sent over so many of the fine plants of that country which now ornament our greenhouses and 
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