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coloured scales. Stamens about 8, slightly or not at all exserted ; fila 

 ments glabrous ; anthers elliptic, small. Ovary scaly ; style slightly 

 exserted, glabrous ; stigma clavate-hemispheric, lobed. Ca^Jsule -5 in. 

 long, scaly, shortly apiculate, 5-valved, the valves not twisted in 

 dehiscence. 



Pebak, at elevations of 5,000 to 7,000 feet : Scortechini 401b, 753 ; 

 Wray 311, 1572, 3840 ; Cantley. 



6. Ehododendron jasminiplorum. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4524. 

 Usually epiphytic ; a small shrub, only a few feet high ; young 

 branches somewhat less than half as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous. 

 Leaves in whorls, thickly coriaceous, almost sessile, broadly elliptic to 

 elliptic-rotund, the apex acute, the base rounded and minutely cordate ;. 

 upper surface when dry pale olivaceous-brown, sometimes with a few 

 small loose scales, the 5 to 7 pairs of spreading main-nerves slightly 

 distinct and (like the midrib) depressed ; the lower darker brown, not 

 olivaceous, the nerves very faint but the midrib pale and prominent ; 

 length 1-25 to 3 in. ; breadth 1 to 1'5 in. ; petiole "1 in. long. Umbels 

 terminal, 8- to 20-flowered ; the pedicels filiform, -75 to 1 in. long, scaly 

 and hairy ; bracteoles membranous, broad, glabrous, -25 to "5 in. long. 

 Calyx a shallow toothed cup, less than -1 in. deep. Corolla white,, 

 salver-shaped ; the tube narrowly cylindric, sparsely scaly or glabrous 

 outside, about '15 in. in diam. and 1'25 to 1'6 in. long (when dry) ; the 

 limb one-third as long, spreading, with 5 deep, broad, obovate-obtuse 

 or rotund lobes. Staviens 10, the filaments shortly exserted, thin,, 

 pubescent ; anthers short, broad. Ovary 5-celled, pubescent ; style 

 longer than the corolla-tube, pubescent ; stigma depressed-capitate, 

 grooved. Capsule about -75 to 1 in. long, narrowly sub-cylindric, much 

 apiculate, ridged, its valves recurved to the base and often twisted. 

 Lemaire, Jard Fleur. t. 41 ; Illust. Hortic. (1859) t. 203 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 463 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1059. 



Malacca, on Mount Ophir : Griffith (K.D.) 3504 ; Maingay (K.D.) 

 701 ; Bidley. Perak : Wray 1635 ; Scortechini ; King's Collector 3586, 

 3645, 6909 ; Bidley 124. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



7. Ehododendron longiflorum, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. III. 

 88 with figure. Epiphytic ; 3 to 6 feet high ; young branches half as 

 thick as a goose-quill, densely scaly like the petioles. Leaves coriaceous, 

 usually elliptic-oblong, sometimes elliptic or oblanceolate, sub-acute or 

 acute, much narrowed to the base ; upper surface when dry olivaceous- 

 brown, coarsely and widely reticulate with broad black scales, especi- 

 ally on the depressed midrib, the 5 to 7 pairs of spreading main-nerves 

 faint ; lower surface brown, uniformly covered with black deciduous 

 scales, ultimately glabrous ; the main-nerves indistinct but the midrib 



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