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broad, rounded or obtuse, apiculate, base somewhat narrowed, 
oblique, glabrous, very strongly veined, dark green, slightly 
lepidote outside ; lobes orbicular, 6-9 mm. long, rounded, very 
sparingly ciliolate. Corolladeeply campanulate, 5—lobed, lepidote out- 
side ; tube 7°5-8 cm. long ; lobes 2-2°5 cm. long, broad, erect-spread- 
ing, rounded or truncate. Stamens about 12, half the length of 
the corolla ; filaments 4-5 cm. long, flattened and pubescent in the 
lower half ; anthers oblong, 10-12 mm. Jong. stil reaching to 
mouth of corolla; ovary about 1°5 em. long, tapering to style, 
densely lepidote ; style stout, cylindric, lepidote in lower half; 
stigma large, flattened, dark-coloured. Fruit not seen. 
YuNNAN. South of the Red River from Mengtsze, A. Henry, 
13,666. 
Undoubtedly the grandest of the Chinese Rhododendrons and 
comparable only with the Indian R. Dalhousiae, its nearest ally, 
from which it is easily distinguished by its more strongly veined 
and larger leaves, its different calyx, lepidote corolla, and stamens 
half the length of the corolla-tube. Henry remarks that only one 
specimen was brought in by a native collector. 
This species is undoubtedly a native of moist warm-temperate 
forests, and with R. Falconeri forms a strong connecting link with 
the sub-Himalayan types of Sikkim and Assam. In view of the 
remarkably local distribution of most of the Chinese and Himalayan 
Rhododendrons, it is very surprising to find species so evidently and 
closely allied, separated by some fifteen degrees of longitude and by 
several stupendous mountain ranges.—E, H. W. 
Rhododendron lutescens, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France xxxiii. 
235. 
SZECHUAN. Wilson, 3939. 
Rhododendron Augustinii, Hemsi. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 19. 
Huren. Wilson, 302. Szecnuan, Wilson, 3950. 
The Szechuan specimens, from an altitude of about 3000 m., 
have smaller leaves, and the under surface of the midrib is 
glabrous. 
Rhododendron Harrovianum, Hemsl.in Gard. Chron. 1910, xlvii. 
4; Bot. Mag. t. 8309. 
SZECHUAN. Wilson, 1433, 3942 partly. 
Cultivated specimens of this species were received from Messrs. 
James Veitch & Sons, bearing the number 3942, but Wilson’s 
dried specimens bearing this number are different.—W. B. H 
Rhododendron lepidotum, Wall. Cat. n. 758 ; Royle Illustr. Him. 
Pl. 260, t. 64, £1; Bot. Mag. tt, 4657, 4802 et 6450, fide C. B. 
Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 471. a 
Yunnan, G. Forrest, 2505, 
