. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. , and having a remarkably neatappearance. The flowers are large and hand-some, growing in terminal heads, having sixto eight in each ; they are rosy lilac withdeeper rose-coloured dots within the base ofthe upper lobe ; they are bell-shaped, with aspreading five-lobed limb. Native of theinterior of Sikkim-Himalaya. Flowers ? Rhododendron Campbellice, Hooker fil.(Mrs. Campbells Rhododendron).—A treegrowing frequently to the height of forty feet,forming a large spreading mass. The leavesare oblong-lanceolate, acumi
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. , and having a remarkably neatappearance. The flowers are large and hand-some, growing in terminal heads, having sixto eight in each ; they are rosy lilac withdeeper rose-coloured dots within the base ofthe upper lobe ; they are bell-shaped, with aspreading five-lobed limb. Native of theinterior of Sikkim-Himalaya. Flowers ? Rhododendron Campbellice, Hooker fil.(Mrs. Campbells Rhododendron).—A treegrowing frequently to the height of forty feet,forming a large spreading mass. The leavesare oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, leathery,green and smooth on the upper surface, andclothed beneath with a more or less deeplyrufous or ferrugineous tomentum. Theflowers grow in dense compact heads, and areof a rich rosy-scarlet colour, spotted at thebase of the upper lobe with dark spots, andaround the bases of the remaining lobes withpaler rosy spots. Native of Sikkim-Himalaya,frequent, growing at an elevation of from9,000 to 10,000 feet. Flowers in April andMay. Rhododendron Royld, Hooker fil. ( Royles Rhododendron).—A small shrub withoval or elliptic leaves, three to four inches MODERN FLOWER-GARDENING. 273 long, clothed beneath with an ochraceous-brown pulverulent substance. The flowersgrow from four to eight in a loose head ; theyare campanulate, with a slightly spreadinglimb of five rounded lobes, ending in an acutepoint ; the colour is brownish red, the lobesof the limb just tipped with bluish green ; inits unexpanded state the corolla is iridescentwith blue ; the tube of the corolla is striatedwithin. Native of Sikkim-Himalaya, on themountains of the interior. Flowers in Apriland May. Rhododendron einnabarinum, Hooker fil.(cinnabar-leaved Rhododendron).—A smallshrub with slender tortuous branches, bearingleaves from two to three inches long, of anacutely ovate-lanceolate form, green and gla-brous above, and beneath often reddish anddotted with little scales. The flowers aresmall, funne
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