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stout and prominent ; length 2*25 to 3"5 in. ; breadth -8 to 1'5 in. 

 petioles -35 to -5 in. long, stout. Umbels terminal, 5- to 7-flowered ; flower- 

 pedicels -5 to -8 in. long, scaly or glabrous. Flowers about 2 in. long, 

 glabrous outside, narrowly sub-campanulate, almost salver-shaped. 

 Calyx small, cupular, with wavy edges, under -05 in. deep. Corolla 

 red, infundibuliform ; its tube about -25 in. wide near the base but 

 expanding gradually to about "4 in. or more near the mouth, about three 

 times as long as the broadly bluntly 5-lobed limb. Stamens 10, the 

 filaments slender, pubescent, slightly exserted ; anthers short, blunt. 

 Ovary densely hairy like the style ; stigma clavate. Capsule unknown. 

 PI. des Serres, V. p. 477-480f. 



Peeak : Scortechini 385, 553, 1409 ; King's Collector 1864, 5181.— 

 DisTBiB. Borneo, Sumatra. 



8. Ehododendron malayanum, Jack in Mai. Misc. II. n. 7, 17. An 

 erect straggling shrub, 3 to 15 feet high, all parts more or less glan- 

 dular and scaly ; young branches less than half as thick as a goose- 

 quill. Leaves narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, the apex and base acute 

 or sub-acute, the edges recurved when dry ; upper surface shining, 

 glabrous, and olivaceous when dry, the 5 to 8 pairs of main-nerves 

 faint, slightly depressed, the midrib much depressed and often scaly ; 

 the lower of a deep uniform brownish-cinereous colour and with 

 numerous dark scales, the nerves obsolete but the midrib bold and pro- 

 minent ; length 1'75 to 3-25 in. ; breadth -75 to 1-25 in. ; petioles -4 to 

 -6 in. long, covered with large black scales. Umhels terminal, 3- to 5- 

 flowered. Flowers -8 in. long, their pedicels '25 to -35 in. long, slender, 

 scaly. Calyx cupular, 5-toothed, less than '05 in. deep. Corolla red, 

 glabrous, '8 in. long (when dry), salver-shaped, the tube about -2 in. in 

 diam. when dry, about '6 in. long, the limb about -5 in. across when 

 dry, with 5 broad, blunt, cuneate lobes. Stamens 10, their filaments 

 glabrous. Ovary 5-celled ; style slightly exserted from the throat of 

 the corolla, glabrous ; stigma clavate. Caj^stde about 1 in. long, slender, 

 ridged, the valves much recurved, twisted. Hook. Journ. Bot. I. 369 ; 

 DC. Prod. VII. 725; Bot. Mag. t. 6045; Beccari Malesia, I. 205; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 463. B. tubiflor^im and B. cele- 

 bicum, DC. I.e. 725 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 44, t. 2ab ; 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 1059. B. lampongiim, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 585. 

 Vireya tubiflora and V. celebica, Blume Bijdr. 855, 854. 



Malacca : on Mount Ophir, 4,000 ft., Griffith (K.D.) 3503 ; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 702 ; Wray ; Kurz. Perak : Scortechini 385, 2336 ; Wray 614 ; 

 King's Collector 3227, 8076. Penang : Biclley 125. Selangor : Bidley 

 7557. — DisTRiB. Sumatra, Java. 



9. Ehododendron dubium, n. sp., King & Gamble. A shrub or small 

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