1925] WILSON, THE RHODODENDRONS OF EASTERN CHINA 167 



indumentum, costa impressed above, raised below, secondary veins 



ascending-spreading; petiole 1-1.5 cm. long, slightly winged. Flowers 



4-6 or more, umbellate-racemose, rhachis 1-2 cm. long, surrounded 



by semipersistent glandular bud-scales; pedicels ascending-spreading, 



2-3 cm. long, sparsely or densely pubescent; calyx discoid, with 5 small 



triangular acute ciliolate-glandular teeth; corolla pink, pale within 



with few rose-pink dotted honey-guides, campanulate, about 7.5 cm. 



long and wide, 5-lobed, lobes spreading, rounded, emarginate; stamens 



10-12, unequal, slightly shorter than corolla, filaments sparsely hairy 



in lower half, anthers yellow; pistil slightly overtopping stamens, equaling 



the corolla, ovary ovoid more or less clothed with short rufous hairs, 



scyle curving, sparsely stipitate-glandular at base, stigma capitate. 



Fruit woody, ovoid, about 1 cm. long often rufous-pubescent, verruculose, 

 erect on stout ascending-spreading pedicels. 



Habitat: Kwangtung province, Lo-fau-shan; Lantao Island. 



This is a very distinct plant with rigid stems and crowded coriaceous 



oblanceolate-oblong to lanceolate obtuse leaves, gray on the lower sur- 

 face, and small very woody fruits. It is known to me as a cultivated 

 plant in England and whilst pretty in a quiet way it cannot be rated a 

 high class garden plant, moreover, it is tender. 



The loan of a fragment of Hance's type (No. 22205) from the Herb. 

 British Museum enables me to establish its identity with R. Fordii 

 Hemsl. Presumably no one has heretofore compared actual material, 

 for the identity is obvious. 



8. Rhododendron fokienense Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 xlvi. 210 (1899).— Millais, Rhodod. 167 (1917); n. 143 (1924). 



Branches glabrous, clothed with dark brown bark; winter-buds ovate, 

 long acuminate, ciliolate. Leaves stout, coriaceous, lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, acute, base cuneate, upper 

 surface glabrous, dark lustrous green; under surface densely clothed 

 with pale gray crustaceous indumentum, costa impressed above, promi- 

 nent below; petiole flattened, 1.5 to 2 cm. long. Flowers 4 to 6, 

 umbellate-racemose; pedicels slender, ascending-spreading, 2 cm. long, 

 sparsely puberulous; calyx annular, obscurely 5-toothed, teeth minute, 

 triangular, acute; corolla funnelform-campanulate. about 4 cm. long and 

 broad, 5-lobed, lobes spreading, rounded or sub-acute, stamens 10, 

 shorter than the corolla, filaments densely pubescent in the lower 

 half; pistil longer than the corolla, ovary villose, style filiform, sparsely 

 pilose near the base, stigma capitate. Fruit not seen. 



Habitat: eastern China, Fokien province. 



This species is characterized by its long acuminate bud-scales, by the 



gray under surface of its shining coriaceous leaves, by its thinly puberul- 

 ous pedicels and by its pilose style. As Franchet points out it is closely 

 related to R. hypoglaucum Hemsl. which, however, has rounded not 

 long acuminate bud-scales and a glabrous pistil. It is also very closely 



