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A vats neat species, common on scrab-clad mountains near 
Tatienl 
Siemned in compliment to Mrs. Shelton, wife of Dr. Shelton, 
Missionary at Tatienlu, to both of whom I[ am indebted for kind 
hospitality during 1904.—E. H. W. 
Rhododendron Fargesii, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. ix. 390. 
UPEH son, Wilson, 3972. 
Rhododendron decorum, Franch. in is Soc. Bot. France xxxiil. 
230 ; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, xx 
YUNNAN. Hancock, 157; A. Manes 91554; G. Forrest, 
2119, 2253. 
R. decorum belongs to a small group having large, corymbosely 
racemose flowers, and is closely allied to the eastern ortunei, 
Lindl., differing in having white flowers with bearded “filaments. 
Forrest describes the flowers as fragrant, white with green 
markings. Perhaps a variety of R. Portunei, but in the absence of 
fuller material we do not venture to reduce it. 
Rhododendron pachytrichum, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 
XXxiii, 231. 
SZECHUAN, Wilson, 3976, 39764. 
- Rhododendron maculiferum, Mranch. in Journ. de Bot. ix. 393. 
Huren. Wilson, 1878, 6949 
Rhododendron Fortunei, Lindl. in Gard. Chron., 1859, 868 ; 
Maxim. Rhod, As. Or. 21; Bot. Mag. t. 5596 ; Hemsl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc, xxvi. 23. 
Kianesi. Bullock, Hurrn. A. Henry, 5354; Wilson, 609. 
Mr. Wilson was of opinion ‘that his 609 represented a dis- 
tinct , Seen, but on further examination | am unable to accept 
this In the Index Kewensis the authorship of R. Fertunez 
is slain, in square brackets, to T. Moore, but we have not 
found any evidence of the correctness of this record. 
r. Consul Cooper collected R. Fortune: in 1884, on the Tientai 
Mcgehistas Chekiang, where, he notes, there were magnificent groves 
of it; Mr. T. L. Bullock collected it at Kiukiang, Kiangsi, in 
1892. Writing of this species in the Gardeners’ Circaisle | in 1859, 
Fortune states that R. Championae, Hook., was the only other 
species known, at that date, to inhabit China. It should be men- 
tioned, however, that he did not include the species belonging to 
the section Azalea. 
The specimens from Hupeh are rather more glandular than the 
wae ones, and the leaves are mostly broadest above the middle.— 
9* Rhododendron Hemsleyanum, £. H. Wéiils.; species distincta e 
grege R. Fortune, Lindl., floribus grandibus, racemos so-corymbosis, 
omnibus speciebus hjus gregis foliis amplissimis basi alte 
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