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teeth minute, unequal, obtuse. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, 
lepidote outside ; lobes short, spreading, rounded. Stamens ten, 
included ; filaments broad, about 5 mm. long, villous about the 
middle, glabrous at base. ~Pistil over-topping een ; ovary 
2 mm. long, furrowed, densely lepidote. Frutt not see 
Yunn Mountains south-west of Mengtsze, at 2000 m. above 
Bulova ce Henry, 9166. 
Very distinct from all other Chinese species. From the material 
before us we think the species may be prostrate in habit—H, H. W. 
Rhododendron Mariesii, Hems/. et E. H. Wils.in Kew Bull. 1907, 
244 ; Bot. Mag. t. 8206. 
Kranesit. Maries. Hurru. A. Henry, 5274. 
Rhododendron mekongense, H’ranch. in Journ, de Bot. xli. 263, 
Yunnan. Monbeiy, 7; G. Forrest, 698. 
Tsus1a. 
a*° Rhododendron ello, Hemsl, Rince ddan KA i ; species dis- 
tinctissima, etsi Championae sags simillima, ab eo foliis 
floribusque lepidotis, pilis omnibus eglandulosis, floribus minoribus 
et calyce parvo diversa.— 
Bush, 1-6 m. high, much-branched, branches twiggy, earealy 
lepidote, dobiety setose when young, becoming glabrescent with a 
Leaves clustered at ends of shoots, lanceolate or oblong-lakaletilate, 
excluding petiole 4°5-11 cm. (usually 7-9 cm.) long, 2-3°5 em. 
broad, short or long acuminate, apiculate, base slightly auricled or 
cuneate, usually setulose on both surfaces (rarely pubescent beneath), 
becoming glabrescent with age; sparsely lepidote above, more 
densely so beneath ; midrib slightly immersed above, very prominent 
and villous beneath ; ; secondary veins raised on upper surface ; 
petioles 5-8 mm. long, villous. Buds ovoid ; scales short, orbicular, 
apiculate, sometimes ciliolate. lowers three or more, subumbellate, 
light to dark-purple, 3°5—4'5 em. across ; pedicels erect-spreading, 
1-1°5 em. long, pilose. Calyx saucer-shaped, 5-toothed, densely 
villous ; teeth short, sub-orbicular, rounded, ciliate, reddish. 
Corolla deeply 5-lobed, sparsely leyiidote ; tube narrow, funnel- 
shaped, 1°5-2°5 em. long, more or less villous outside ; lobes about 
as long as tube, spreading, elliptic, rounded or obtuse. Stamens 
about twelve, shortly exserted ; filaments slender, 2~3°5 cm. long, 
+c, pilose sagted middle but glabrous at base. Pistil over- 
‘oping. g stamens ; ovary narrow, 4-7 mm, long, densely lepidote ; 
style filiform, sisbréas very rarely sparsely lepidote. Capsule 
rine lepidote, sparsely setulose, about 2 cm. long, ‘5 cm, across, 
wed. 
Bkediuais In thickets and thin woods, at 2300-3650 m. above 
sea-level, Wilson, 3944, 3945, 3946. 
he three numbers were gathered i in different localities at varying 
altitudes ; they differ somewhat in size of leaves and in degree of 
hairiness of leaves and shoots.—E. H. W. 
Rhododendron indicum, oes Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 128 
gen os Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv » 25 —Azalea indica, Linn. Sp. P. i 
ed. 1, 
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