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length, and about 3 in width, when expanded ; of a bright
rosy purple, spotted on the inside with bright red spots ; tube
about three fourths of an inch in length, strongly but bluntly
•5-angled : limb 5-cleft, spreading ; the two upper segments
largest and broadest, ovate, rounded at the ends, spotted
from about the middle, and a good way down the tube, with
bright red spots : lower segments elliptical or oval, rounded
at the ends, not spotted. Stamens 10, unequal, a little
ascending : jilaments rosy, clothed about half way up with
short pellucid hairs : anthers opening by two holes at the
point, for the exclusion of the pollen: pollen white. Ovarium
densely clothed with long white close-pressed hairs.
Style quite smooth, considerably longer than the stamens,
rose-coloured. Stigma a red glossy rugulose head.
This elegant mule Rhododendron is the produce of R. le-
difolium, of Hooker, impregnated by the pollen of the Old
Red R. indicum. It was raised from the seed of the former
species by Mr. Smith, of Coombe Wood, Kingston, about
four years ago, along with several other hybrids of the same
genus, which Mr. Smith thinks will all flower in the next
Spring.
The shrub thrives best in sandy peat, mixed with a little
light loam ; and cuttings, taken from young wood, root
freely, planted in sand, with a bell glass placed over them.
The plant requires protection in Winter.
1. P ed ic e l and Calyx, showing the six divisions,
3 . Ovary, sty le, and stigma.
2. A filament, with its anther.
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