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xot wes Brettii Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 
Western Szech’uan: Mupin, woodlands, 3300-3500 m., July 1908 
(No. 1278; bush 2.5-5 m. tall, flowers rose-pink) ; Wa-shan, woodlands, 
alt. 3000 m., November 1908 (No. 1361; bush 4-6 m. tall); same lo- 
cality, alt. 2300-2600 m., July 1908 (No. 3439; bush 3-5 m. tall, 
flowers pink with purple blotch); west and near Wén-ch'uan Hsien, 
woodlands, alt. 2600-3300 m., July 1908 (No. 3438; bush 2.5 m. tall, 
flowers rosy-red) ; Mupin, woodlands, alt. 3000-3300 m., October 1910 
(No. 4263; bush 2-3 m. tall); Tachien-lu, July 1903 (Veitch Exped. 
No. 3973, type). 
This most striking species varies slightly in different localities. In No. 3439 the 
calyx-lobes are almost wanting and the bracts are very sparse; in No. 3438 the 
lower surface of the midribs is glabrous, and the pedicels and ovary are much less 
glandular-pubescent. 
Rhododendron pachytrichum Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
XXXIII. 231 (1886); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, X. 49 (Pl. 
David. Il. 87) (1888). — Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. 
Inform. XXIII. 1910, 109. 
Western Szech'uan: Mupin, woods, alt. 2500-3300 m., June and 
Oetober, 1908 (No. 1203, in part; bush 2.5-6 m. tall, flowers white); 
same locality, alt. 2600-2800 m., October 1910 (No. 4270; bush 2-5 m. 
tall); Wa-shan, woods, alt. 2500-3000 m., June and November, 1908 
(No. 1203, in part; bush 4-6 m. tall, flowers white); same locality, 
June and November 1908 (No. 1349; bush 5-6 m. tall; flowers pale 
pink, spotted); Tachien-lu, woods, alt. 3000-3600 m., September 1908 
(No. 1203, in part; bush 2-6 m. tall, lowers white) south-east of Ta- 
chien-lu, woodlands, 3000-3300 m., October 1908 (No. 1326; bush 
3-6 m. tall); near Mao-chou, Chiu-ting-shan, cliffs, alt. 2500-2800 m., 
May and October 1908 (No. 3440; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers white); 
west of Kuan Hsien, Pan-lan-shan, woodlands, alt. 2300-2600 m. 
October 1910 (No. 4246; bush 2-2.5 m. tall); without precise locality, 
alt. 2600-3300 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3976). 
This is one of the commonest and most widely dispersed species found in "— 
Szech'uan. The fruit which has not been described is slender, cylindric, 3 m 
long, 6-8 mm. wide, furrowed, sparingly hispid or glabrescent, about 8-celled; 
fusiform, about 3 mm. long, blackish. 
Rhododendron strigillosum Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. er 
XXXIII. 232 (1886); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, X. 48 ( 
