. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ve in mind such plants as R. rubi-ginosum, R. racemosum, R. fastigiatum, R. in- The short, twiggy branches are crowded withleaves on the apex, the lower parts of eachseasons growth being devoid of foliage anddensely clothed with dark brown lepidote spots,these being of a light yellowish green whenyoung. The leaves are shortly petiolate, ellipticto ovate, 1 to 4 inches in length, dark greenabove, densely clothed with small, reddish-brown lepidote spots beneath. The whole plantis strongly aromatic. The
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ve in mind such plants as R. rubi-ginosum, R. racemosum, R. fastigiatum, R. in- The short, twiggy branches are crowded withleaves on the apex, the lower parts of eachseasons growth being devoid of foliage anddensely clothed with dark brown lepidote spots,these being of a light yellowish green whenyoung. The leaves are shortly petiolate, ellipticto ovate, 1 to 4 inches in length, dark greenabove, densely clothed with small, reddish-brown lepidote spots beneath. The whole plantis strongly aromatic. The species was first described by Hemsleyin the Journal of the Lin. Soc. xxvi (1890),p. 21, from material collected by the Faber in 1887 from the summit ofMount Omei, Szechuen, China. Specimens havealso been collected on the Tibetan frontier byA. E. Pratt at an altitude of 9,000 to 13,500 feet;by Mr. E. H. Wilson and Mr. A. Henry at analtitude of 8,000 to 11,000 feet in Western Szech-uen, where it is said to grow in woods andthickets, forming a bush up to 10 feet high. C. Fig. 144.—rhododendron concinntjm : colour of flowers, rosy-purple. tricatum (the flowers of which are the nearest,shade to blue amongst the Rhododendrons),R. Benthamianum, R. Augustinei, R. yun-nanense, R. siderophyllum (which is scarcelymore than a small flowered form of R. yun-nanense, R. combense, and R. conciivnum, as the specific name denotes,is a decidedly pretty plant. The flowersare rosy-purple in colour, are usually borne inclusters of three to five, and freely produced allover the numerous branches. They are 1^ to 2inches in diameter, and about three-quarters ofan inch in length; the lobes are slightlyreflexed and the dorsal petal is spottedwith reddish-brown. The tube is narrow atthe base, spreading to nearly an inch atthe top, and slightly angular. The calyx—which is such an important character in thisgenus—is variable, being usually obscurely lobed,but the lob
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