ERICACEAE. — RHODODENDRON 533 
with rufous tomentum, floccose pedicels and slender fruit covered with red-brown 
tomentum distinguish it from the allied species. In No. 3969 the leaves are oval, 
and glabrescent below. 
Rhododendron Faberii Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 22 
(1889). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 494 (1909). — Hem- 
sley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 105. 
Rhododendron Prattii Franchet in Jour. de Bot. IX. 389 (1895). 
Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 2600-3000 m., 
June 1908 (No. 3436; bush 4-6 m. tall, flowers white, spotted red); 
west and near Wén-ch'uan Hsien, woods, alt. 2800-3000 m., July 1908 
(No. 3437, in part; bush 2.5-4 m. tall, flowers white); Tachien-lu, 
woods and thickets, alt. 3000-3300 m., June 1908 (Nos. 3432, 3437, in 
part; bush 2.5-6 m. tall, flowers white); same locality, woodlands, 
alt. 2600-3300 m., October 1910 (Nos. 4234, 4272, in part; bushes 
2.5-4 m. tall); around Tachien-lu, alt. 2600-4300 m., May, June and 
October 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3958, 3958*, 3959, 3961); vicinity 
of Tachien-lu 3000-4500 m., A. E. Pratt (No. 58, type of R. Pratt 
Franchet); Mupin, woodlands, alt. 2600-3000 m., June 1908 (No. 
3437, in part; bush 2-4 m. tall, flowers white, dark blotch); near 
Lungan Fu, forests of Tu-ti-liang-shan, alt. 3000 m., August 1910 
(No. 4272, in part; bush 4 m. tall); Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. 
No. 5142). 
The undescribed fruit of this species is stout, cylindric, 2.5-3 em. long, 7-9 mm. 
wide, usually curved, furrowed, 8-10-celled, hairy, very sparsely glandular; the 
Persistent calyx-lobes enclosing the lower half of the capsule; seeds fusiform, 
3-3.5 mm. long, dark brown. 
. This very common woodland species varies considerably in the size of the leaves, 
in the degree of tomentum on their under surface and in the size of the calyx-lobes 
Which, however, are always ample. In No. 3432 the pedicels are nearly glabrous, 
the calyx-lobes are short and narrow and the leaves closely resemble those of 
R. Przewalskii Maximowiez. No. 5142 has very glandular pedicels. 
Rhododendron taliense Franchet in Bot. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 
232 (1886). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI.31 (1889).— Hemsley 
& Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 105. — Diels in Not. Bot. 
Gard. Edinburgh, V. 216 (Pl. Chin. Forrest.) (1912). 
Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, moorlands, alt. 3000-3300 m., 
June and October, 1908 (No. 1325; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers pink); 
same locality, uplands, alt. 3600—4100 m., October 1910 (No. 4232; 
fruits only; bush 1-2.5 m. tall); without precise locality, alt. 36007 
4300 m., July 1903 and June 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3970, 3953). 
