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Kedah : Derry 5531. Pekak : Scortechini 373, 1325 ; Derry 3705 ; Fox 

 129; King's Collector 2335, 3672, 6916, 7008 ; Wray 1023. Singapore : 

 Bidley. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java, Celebes. 



Var. Teysr)ianni, King & Gamble. Ovary densely hairy; fila- 

 ments hairy near the base, corolla yellow. B. Teysmanni, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. Suppl. 585 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 463. 



Penang : Maingay (K.D.) 1099, 10257 ; Curtis 530. Perak : Wray 

 601, 623 ; King's Collector 3672. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



2. Ehododendron Wrayi, n. sp., King & Gamble. A bush ; 

 young branches as thick as a goose-quill, at first sparsely scaly, ulti- 

 mately glabrous. Leaves very coriaceous, elliptic or sub-obovate-elliptic,, 

 the apex sub-acute, the base rounded, the edges recurved when dry ; 

 upper surface dark-brown when dry, glabrous, the midrib much 

 depressed ; lower surface white, glaucous, with short hairs on the 

 minute reticulations, the main-nerves, and the bold midrib ; main- 

 nerves 6 to 12 pairs, spreading, curved, rather dark-coloured and con- 

 spicuous on the lower surface, invisible on the upper ; length 1-75 to 

 3-5 in. ; breadth -85 to 1-5 in. ; petioles -4 to -8 in. long, stout, scaly. 

 Umbels terminal, 8- to 12-flowered, unequal, -5 to -75 in. long, scaly. 

 Flower-buds enveloped in obovate-oblong apiculate bracts, the inner 

 tomentose externally, the outer glabrous, all deciduous. Calyx 

 cupular, 5-toothed, less than -1 in. deep. Corolla glabrous, white,, 

 tinged with pale pink and spotted in the throat, widely carapanulate 

 from a tubular base, about 1-25 in. long, and rather more in breadth at 

 the mouth ; lobes of the limb 5, broadly ovate, spreading. Stamens 10; 

 filaments shorter than the corolla, glabrous ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 hairy ; style glabrous, longer than the stamens ; stigma hemispheric, 

 lobed. Capsule only -5 in. long and about half as much in diam., not 

 apiculate, tomentose, ridged, 5-celled. 



Perak, at from 3,500 to 7,000 feet : Wray 322, 886, 1569 ; Scorte- 

 chini. 



3. Ehododendron pauciflorum, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 

 shrub, all parts excej)t the inflorescence glabrous ; young branches as 

 thick as a crow-quill, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, obovate, rarely 

 rotund-obovate, the apex broad, usually minutely retuse, the base much 

 narrowed, the edges recurved ; upper surface olivaceous, the lower 

 brown when dry ; the midrib stout and prominent on the lower surface, 

 depressed on the upper (when dry) ; main-nerves 3 or 4 pairs, indis- 

 tinct on both surfaces ; length -6 to 1 in. ; breadth -4 to "65 in. ; petioles 

 less than '1 in. long. Floicers 1 or 2, terminal ; their pedicels pubescent, 

 •25 to '6 in. long, with 1 or 2 loose sheathing deciduous bracts at their 

 bases. Calyx cupular, about "1 in. long, obscui'ely toothed. Corolla 



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