Tas. 8721. 
RHODODENDRON Curreanvum. 
Burma. 
Ericaceak. Tribe RHopoREAR, 
RuHopDopENDRON, Linn, ; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599. 
Rhododendron Cuffeanum, Craib MSS.; species R. Dalhousiae, Hook. £., 
valde affinis sed calycis lobis extra lepidotis pilis longis debilibus ciliatis 
differt. 
Frutex laxe ramosus; caulis basi tumidus; ramuli annotini pallide cinerei, 
squamis peltatis sessilibus brunneis notati, vetustiores pallide brunnei, 
vestigiis squamarum delapsarum arcte notati. Fplia pauca, laxa, 
sempervirentia, oblanceolata, apice obtusa, sensim et breviter acuminata, 
basi subacuto attenuata, usque ad 10 cm. longa et 3 cm. lata, coriacea, 
supra primum parce squamoso-glandulosa, demum glabra et conspicue 
reticulata, infra pallidiora, densiuscule squamoso-glandulosa, squamis 
brunneis inaequalibus parvis circiter 0°5 mm. distantibus ; costa media 
supra impressa, infra prominula; nervi laterales utrinsecus 6-7, graciles, 
flexuosi, utrinque prominuli; petioli circiter 1-3 cm. longi, compressi, 
utrinque dense lepidoti. Flores in umbellam terminalem circiter 5-florem 
dispositi; pedicelli 1-1-5 cm. longi, dense lepidoti, circiter 1-5 mm. crassi, 
Calyx foliaceus, fere 1 cm. longus, inaequaliter 5-lobatus, lobis duobus 
inferioribus majoribus oblongis vel oblongo-rotundatis apice rotundatis 
pilis debilibus peucis ciliatis extra lepidotis. Corolla tubuloso-cam- 
panulata, 6°5 cm. longa, alba, intus dorso ochracea; tubus 8°5 cm. longus, 
supra basin circiter 2 cm. diametro, extra. molliter pubescens; lobi 5, 
rotundati, basi 3 cm. lati, extra parce lepidoti. Stamina 10, exserta, 
inaequalia, longiora corollae tubo paullo breviora; filamenta basin versus 
molliter villoso-pubescentia ; antherae brunneae, 6 mm. longae. Ovarium 
5-loculare, fere 1 cm. longum, dense lepidotum; stylus corolla longior, 
basin versus parce lepidotus, stigmate capitato atro-brunneo coronatus.— 
J. Hutcurson, i 
This handsome Rhododendron was originally met with 
by Lady Wheeler Cuffe, to whom it is dedicated, on 
Sindaung, or ‘“ Elephant Hill,” a great outlying mass, 
whose summit is 6,000 feet above sea-level, on the edge 
of the Shan plateau in Upper Burma. &. Cujfeanum is 
closely related to R. Dalhousieae, Hook. f., a species 
which extends from Sikkim through Bhutan to Manipur, 
but differs from that species in having its calyx-lobes 
lepidote outside and fringed with long weak hairs. It 
is more remotely allied to R. Nuttallii, Booth, from 
Bhutan, and to &. crassum, Franch., from Yunnan, both 
of which have calyx-lobes that are neither lepidote nor 
Aveusr, 1917, 
