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.