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petiole pubescent, 5-8mm. long. Cyme supra-axillary, rather densely many- 

 flowered, peduncled, shorter than leaves but much exceeding the petiole, 

 divaricately branched, 2-3 J cm. across ; peduncle erect-patent or patent or 

 slightly reflexed, 12-18 mm, long, straight, pubescent and covered with mi- 

 nute granular glands as are branches of the cyme ; bracts minute, linear 

 or lato-linear, thinly pubescent externally. Flowers small, 3 mm. across, 

 white, shortly pedicellate, disparsed with minute granular glands. Calyx 



1 mm. long, broadly obconico-campanulate, 4-nerved, shallowly 4-toothed, 

 teeth depressed-deltoid, acutish. Corolla exceeding the calyx, shortly 

 campanulate-infundibuliform, 4-lobed, about 2i mm. long ; lobes patent, 

 orbicular, shorter than the tube. Stamens 4, much exserted ; filament 

 filiform, glabrous, 4 mm. long ; anther elliptical, 2-auriculate at the base, 

 with granular glands on back. Style filiform, glabrous, scarcely longer 

 than the stamen ; stigma shortly obconical and tmncate. Ovary minute, 

 included within the calyx, globose, with granular glands. Berry numerous, 



2 mm. across, purple. Flowers in Jul}'- August. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Iburi {T. Maldno\ Oct. 25, 1885), Mt. Imano in 

 Hata-gori {T. 31akmo\ Aug. 7, 1889). 



Rhododendron (Azaleastrum) ellipticum Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XII. 

 p. 742 (1888) ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 22 ; 

 Tashiro in Bot. ]\Iag., Tokyo, III. (1889) p. 201; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. 

 Bot. Disc. Chin. p. 620, in nota. 



A small tree, attaining about 4-8 m. in height and about 1 decira. in 

 diameter of the trunk (after Y. Tashiro), 2-3- or sometimes 4-5-chotomous- 

 ly ramose, glabrous ; branchlet terete, usually pale-fulvous or pale-brownish. 

 Leaves persistent during three years, coriaceous, falsely 4-7-verticillate 

 towards the top of branchlets and at nodes, patent, petiolate, oblong- 

 elliptical or narrowly oblong, suddenly mucronato-acute at the apex, cunea to- 

 acute at the base, entire, sub-shining, nearly concolorous, 5-12 cm. long, 

 li-41 cm. broad, with impressed nerves above : veins patulous, loose, in- 

 conspicuous ; petiole l-2cm. long ; leaf-buds conico-linear, 2-6-aggregate at 

 the top of branchlets, about licm. long, imbricately perulate. Flowers 1-2 

 at the top of branchlets, long-pedicellate, large, about 6 cm. in diameter, 

 pale-rose ; pedicel 2-2icm. long ; perulaB imbricate, chartaceo-membranaceous, 

 the internal ones much larger, pale-pubescent- tomentose above internally, 

 the lower ones ample and spathulato-obovate, involute, the upper ones 

 longer and angustato-linear, often exceeding the pedicel. Calyx depressed- 



