ERICACEAE. — RHODODENDRON 541 
2.5 m. tall); without precise locality, alt. 3100-3800 m., May 1904 
(Veitch Exped. No. 3972 and seed No. 1541). 
. Franchet describes the pedicels as glabrous, but in all our specimens they are 
glandular. He also describes the corolla as 8-lobed, but we find it usually 7-lobed. 
The erowded sub-umbellate inflorescence, the glabrous style and ovary, shorter 
leaves usually rounded at the base and globose winter-buds distinguish this species 
from R. Davidii Franchet. 
Rhododendron Fortunei, Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1859, 868.— 
Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. XCII. t. 5596 (1866). — Maximowiez in Mém. 
Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, sér. 7, XVI. No. IX. 21 (1870). — Hemsley 
in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 23 (1889). — Bean in Flora & Sylva, III. 
164 (1905). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. YI. 487, fig. 322 g-i 
(1909). — Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 109. 
Kiangsi: Kuling, side of stream, rare, alt. 1300 m., July 1907 (No. 
1686; bush 2 m. tall). , 
Here belongs the following variety: 
Rhododendron Fortunei, var. Houlstonii Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
Rhododendron Houlstonii Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 
1910, 110. 
Western Hupeh: without precise locality, May and September 1900 (V. eitch 
Exped. Nos. 312, 609 in part, 1077 fruit only); without locality, A. Henry (No. 
9354). Eastern Szech'uan: south Wushan Hsien, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. 
No. 609, in part; bush 3 m. tall, flowers rosy-pink). 
This variety is distinguished from the type by its smaller, narrower leaves, 
usually cuneate, or very rarely rounded or subcordate at the base; more glandular 
pedicels, ovary and style rather smaller and slightly and somewhat differently 
shaped flowers. All the Hupeh specimens we have seen are referable to this 
variety. Both in their number and length the glands on the ovary and style show 
much variation. Rhododendron Houlstonii Hemsley & Wilson was founded on 
Specimens with very long stipitate glands; the specimens before us show every 
gradation from these stipitate glands to sessile glands. It is possible that the 
Hupeh form is scarcely deserving of varietal rank, but for the present it seems to 
us desirable to consider it as a variety. 
Rhododendron decorum Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 
230 (1886); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, X. 47 (Pl. David. II. 
83) (1888). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 22 (1889). — Diels 
in Bot, Jahrb. XXIX. 511 (1900). — Bean in Flora & Sylva, III. 163 
(1905). — Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 109. 
Rhododendron lucidum Franchet in Jour. de Bot. IX. 300 (non Nuttall) (1895) 
— Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XLVII. 121, t. (1910). 
ron vernicosum Franchet in Jour. de Bot. XII. 258 (1898). 
SET tenias Spooneri Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 
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