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R H O D O D É N D R O N indicum. VÜ7' Smithii.
Smith’s hybrid Indian Rhododendron.
Class and Order. P E N T -D E C A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. E R IC EÆ . D . Bon p rodr. flo r. nepal. p . 148.
Subordo I I I . R hodoraceæ. D . Bon h e . cit. p . 152.
R H O D O D E N D R O N . Supra folio 10. series I I .
Sect. I I I . T s u t s u s i . Calyx 5-partitus : segmentis longis patentibus
V . erectis acutis. Corolla tubulosa, rotata, 5-partita ; segmentis patentibus.
Stamina 5-8 v. 10 ; fllamenta inæqualia, inferne pilosa, erecta aut apice adscendentia.—
Frútices erecti aut patentes, ramosi, sempervirentes aut sub-
decidui: ramisvirgatis, junioribus pilosis, ib iia hirsuto-strigosa. Piores terminales,
solitarii aut gemini.
R . indicum, floribus terminalibus suhbinis, ramis strigosis erecto-patentibus
gracilibus ad anthesin pendulis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis basi et apice
attenuatis strigosis, dentibus calycinis elongato-lanceolatis ciliatis patentibus.
T, J,
Rhododendron indicum. Swt. hort. brit. edit. 2. p . 343. n. 29. B r it. flor.
gar. ser, I I . 1 .128.
Azalea indica. Linn. sp. pi. p . 2 14. Willd. spec, p la n t .l . p .B S l. Botan.
magaz. 1 .1480.
For the other synonyms, see fol. 128 of the second series.
y Smithii, Flowers of a rosy-salmon-colour, large and spreading, expansion
2 inches and a half to 3 inches : spots darker : tube half an inch in
length : stamens 8, scarcely bent upwards at the point : style much longer
than the stamens : leaves dark green.
Aierai erect; branches spreading, slender, strigose, thickly
clothed with rigid brown hairs, which lay prostrate on
the stem; pendulous, when in flower, from their weight.
Leaves on short footstalks, that are flattened on the upper
side: lower ones ovate, tapering to both ends: upper ones
elliptically lanceolate, acute; all clothed on both sides with
decumbent hairs, particularly on the nerves and margins,
many of these wear oif when they become older: young leaves
and stems densely clothed with white silky hairs. Flowers in
pairs, terminating the branches, pale rose or salmon colour,
clothed with long soft hairs. Peduncles scarcely half an inch
in length, also clothed with closely pressed chatfy hairs.
Scales at the base of the peduncles linear, thickly clothed
on both sides with bright brown hairs. Calyx deeply 5-cleft,
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