Tas. 8750. 
RHODODENDRON sBracHyAnTHUM. 
Yunnan. 
ERIcackEakE. Tribe RHODOREAE. 
Ruopopenpron, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599. 
Rhododendron brachyanthum, Franch. in Bull, Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. XXXiii. 
p. 234 (1886) ; affinis R. campylogyno, Franch., sed perulis caducis, foliis 
basi haud cuneatis marginibus integris, pedicellis brevioribus floribus flavis 
differt. 
Frutex parce ramosus ; rami crassi, stricti, rigidi; ramuli annotini apicem 
versus laxe foliati, minute lepidoti, cortice brunneo nitido obtecti, 
innovationibus densiuscule flavo-lepidotis. Folia eliiptica vel oblongo- 
elliptica, utrinque obtusa, apice crasse apiculata, 2-4 em. longa, 1-2 cm. 
lata, rigide coriacea, supra viridia et inconspicue glandulosa, infra con- 
spicue glauca et parce glanduloso-lepidota; costa media supra leviter 
impressa, infra valde prominens et glandulosa sed haud glauca; nervi 
laterales aliquantum jineonspicui, supra impressi; petioli 4-5 mm. 
longi, crassi, glandulosi. Flores umbellati terminales, 3-4-nati; perulae 
caducae, coriaceae, dense ciliatiae, dorso glandulosae, exteriores foliaceae 
et infra glaucae; pedicelli erecti vel subnutantes, circiter 2 cm. longi, 
glanduloso-lepidoti. Calyx amplus, subfoliaceus, profunde 5-lobatus, 
basin versus extra dense lepidotus, lobis ovato-oblongis apice rotundatis 
dorso parce lepidotis circiter 8 mm. longis et 5 mm. latis marginibus 
undulatis glabris. Corolla pallide flava; tubus late campanulatus 1 em. 
longus, glaber ; lobi 5, latissime ovati, basi auriculati, 6 mm. longi, 6-8 cm. 
lati. Stamina 10, corolla paulo breviora; filamenta inferne dense villosa ; 
antherae flavo-brunneae, 2 mm. longae. Ovarium 5-loculare, dense 
viridi-lepidotum ; stylus staminibus subaequilongus, crassus, glaber, in 
stigma capitato-disciforme sensim ampliatus. Fructus haud visus.— 
J. Hurcuinson, 
The neat Rhododendron here figured is a native of 
Yunnan, where it was discovered by Mr. G. Forrest in 
open rocky situations in dry pine forests on the eastern 
flank of the Tali Range, at 11,000 feet, and on the 
Mekong-Salwin Divide to the north-west of Tse-kou at 
13,000. feet. In the latter locality it has also been 
collected by the Rev. Pére Monbeig, while in the former 
it was obtained on Tsang-chau by the Abbé Delavay, 
whose specimens, which match exactly that now figured, 
were made the basis of &. brachyanthum, Franch. Our 
plant, it may be mentioned, is by some authorities 
tegarded as a form of the plant subsequently described 
Jan.-Marcu, 1918, 
