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RHODODENDRON Gowenianiim.
Mr. Gowen’s Rhododendron.
Natural Order. Ericea. D. Don prodr. j l. nepal. p. 148.
Subordo I I I . R H O D O R A C E M . D. Don loc. cit. p. 152.
r h o d o d e n d r o n . Supra fol. 250.
E,. G o w e n ia n u m , ramis tomentoso-pubescentibus, foliis sempervi-
rentibus aut subdeciduis oblongis acutis margine subrevolutis ;
iunioribus pubescentibus: adultis glabris apice recurvis, floribus
racemoso-corymbosis, tubo corollæ laciniis paulo breviore.
A handsome smallish branching Shrub : hranches spreading,
ascendant, when young thickly clothed with short woolly
pubescence. Leaves evergreen, or scarcely deciduous, elliptically
oblong or lanceolate, acute, entire, pennately nerved,
the margins slightly rolled back; when young pubescent
on both sides, but becoming smooth and glossy when
old, of a dark green on the upper side, and pale underneath,
reticulately veined, the points more or less recurved, or revolute.
Petioles short, a little flattened on the upper side
and rounded on the lower, pubescent. Flowers in a terminal
raceme-like corymb, 17 in our specimen, of a delicate
light purple. Bractes ovate, taper-pointed, concave soon
turning brown, and dropping off. Peduncles cyhndncf
clothed with a woolly pubescence. Calyx 5-parted, nearly
to the base, pubescent: segments lineax, obtuse, fringed
with glandular hairs, the points very slightly reflexed. 6o-
roZZa funnel-form, pubescent outside: tube 5-angular, widening
upwards, scarcely so long as the segments of the
limb. Limb 5-cleft, the segments distinctly spreading, nai-
rowly ovate, scarcely acute, but pointed, channelled on the
upper side and bluntly keeled underneath, with here and
there a faint brownish spot on some of the segments. Stamens
generally 9, but sometimes 10, inserted in the base of
the calvx. Filaments ascending, unequal m length, slender,
thickly clothed with long spreading hairs more than
half their length, the upper part smooth, inserted in the
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