RHODODENDRON indicum ; var. speciosum.
Showy Indian Rosebay.
Linnean Class and Order. DECANDR IA MONOGYNIA.
N a tu ra l Order. E RICACEÆ. Trib. 2. R h o doreæ . Don in edinb. phil.
jo u rn . J u ly , 1834. p. 152.
R H O D O D E N D R O N . Supràfol. 10.
Sect. 6. Calycis limbo foliáceo 5-partito, corollâ campanulatâ, staminibus
5 -\6 , ovario 5-loculari, fo liis membranaceis sempervirentibus hispidè
pilosis. Sp. Chineuses.
R. indicum, decandrum ; foliis obovato-.oblongis planis ramulisque adpressè
setosis, floribus subsolitariis, segmentis calycinis lanceolatis acutis strigosis,
corollas limbo tubo duplò longiore.
Rhododendron indicum. D. D o n in edinb. p h il.jo u rn . 1821. O. Don gen.
sy st. gard. ^ bot. 3. p . 845.
Azalea indica. Linn. sp. pi. p. 214. Thunb. ja p . p. 84. Willd. sp.pl. l .p .
831. A it. hort. kew. ed. 2 v. 1. p. 3 l8 . Sims in bot. mag. t. 1480.
Lodd. bot. cab. t. 275.
Chamærhododendron exoticum, amplissimis floribus liliaceis. Breyn. prodr. 1.
p. 23. ed. a lt.p . 16.
Cistus indicus. Ledi alpini foliis et floribus amplis. Herm, lugdb. p. 152. t. 153.
R a ii hist. p . 1895.
Tsutsusi. Koempf. amcen. p. 845. t. 846.
£. speciosum, foliis lanceolatis mucronulatis, floribus purpureis majoribus.
Stem arboreous, from four to six feet high. Branches ascending,
leafy, thickly clothed with brown adpressed bristles.
Leaves lanceolate, mucronulate, veiny, light green, attenuated
at the base, the edges slightly recurved, and as well as
the ribs and veins furnished with brown adpressed bristly
hairs, two or three inches long, and half an inch to an inch in
breadth. Footstalks scarcely half an inch long, semicylindrical,
bristly. Flowers terminal, mostly in pairs. Peduncles
about half an inch long, cylindrical, bristly. Calyx