
CC065. Rhododebdrom
dalhousiae, which grows epiphically in its native
localities in the Himalayas it was named by J.D.Hooker in honour of
Christina,
Countess if Dakhousue(1786 1839). Hand coloured lithougraph by W.H.Fitch
from from
a drawing by J.D. Hooker then frontispiece for Hooker's The
Rhododendrons of the
Sikkim Himalaya (1839 51) Fitch produced the magnificent plates for
this book from
party coloured field sketches by Hooker which are now kept at the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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