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stamens 10, shorter than corolla, filaments flattened, villose on lower 

 half, anthers oblong; pistil glabrous, equaling or slightly exceeding the 

 stamens in length, ovary cylindric, about 0.7 cm. long, furrowed, style 

 filiform, stigma capitate. Fruit not seen. 



Habitat: eastern China, Kwangtung and Fokien provinces. 



This new species is characterized by its glabrous lustrous leaves, its 

 numerous flowered umbellate-corymbs, its glandular-villose pedicels, 

 and by its glabrous pistil. It is most closely related to R. Henryi Hance 

 which has a villose ovary, more acute calyx-lobes usually setose-glandular 

 petioles and often irregularly serrulate leaves. It may also be compared 

 with R. Westlandii Hemsl. which differs in its perfectly glabrous pedicels 

 and is stouter in all its parts. I have based this species on a specimen 

 loaned from Herb. Kew which was collected on April 13, 190!), by S. T. 

 Dunn at the bottom of Phoenix Mountain near Swatow (Hongkong 

 Herb. No. 5802). I have also before me two specimens (Nos. 8, 9 in 

 Herb. Edinburgh) collected in Fokien province by J. de la Touche 

 which belong here. The flowers on Dunn's specimen are rather smaller 

 than on La Touehe's, otherwise they agree perfectly. 



13. Rhododendron Tashiroi Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. 

 Petersb. ser. 3, xxxi. 64 (in Mel. Biol. xn. 489) (1887).— Hemsley in 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 31 (1889;. — Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xn. 

 3 (1898); Ind. PI. Jap. n. pt. 2, 405 (1912).— Komatsu in Matsumura, 

 Icon. PL Koisikav. HI. 115, t. 203 (1917).— Millais, Rhodod. 250 (1917). 



Rhododendron spec. Maximowicz in Bot. Jahrb. vi. 64 (1885). 

 A much-branched shrub 2-6 m. tall; branches slender, more or less 

 clothed with shining brown pilose hairs the first year, afterward gla- 

 brous; w inter-buds more or less villose. Leaves crowded, subverticillate, 

 short petiolate, coriaceous, oblanceolate or lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, 

 3-7 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. broad, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, 

 mucronulate, base cuneate, when young clothed with long appressed 

 gray-brown pilose hairs, upper surface soon glabrous, shining green, 

 reticulate, under surface pallid with more or less persistent straight 

 appressed hairs, midrib impressed above, margin crenulate-serrate; 

 petiole 0.3-0.8 cm. long, more or less hirsute. Flowers umbellate, 2-5, 

 subtended by semipersistent bud-scales; pedicels 0.6-1.2 cm. long, 

 densely clothed with short, shining gray-brown pilose hairs; calyx an- 

 nular, minutely 5-toothed, pilose and cilia te; corolla pale rose-purple, 

 sparingly spotted with purple-maroon honey-guides, funnelform, 2.5- 

 3.5 cm. long and broad, 5-lobed, lobes spreading, rounded, truncate, 

 emarginate; stamens 10-12, unequal, longest nearly as long as corolla, 

 filaments flattened, glabrous; pistil equaling the corolla in length, 

 ovary ovoid, 3 mm. long, densely clothed with short straight flattened, 

 appressed shining gray-brown hairs, style straight, filiform, thickened 

 upward, glabrous, stigma nearly simple or slightly lobed. Fruit narrow- 

 ovoid, about 1 cm. long, clothed with appressed flattened straight brown 

 hairs. 



