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and a few peltate reddish scales ; the whitish one-year-old 

 branches have neither hairs nor scales. Leaf buds are 

 small and ovoid, covered by chestnut-brown oblong pointed 

 or blunt scale-leaves, which are more or less lepidote on 

 the outside. Leaves small, very shortly stalked, at most 

 4'5 cm. long ; blade narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, at 

 most 4 cm. long and 1"5 cm. broad, thin, papery, blunt, some- 

 what rounded at the apex, minutely mucronulate with a 

 flat margin and cuneate base, bright green on the upper 

 surface without hairs except for a few n:iinute ones over 

 the midrib (which is slender and slightly prominent, as are 

 the primary veins, which are about 6 on each side, and also 

 the ultimate branches of the venation at least in the dried 

 state), on the under side showing a glaucous wax bloom 

 not very white and lepidote with discontiguous peltate un- 

 equal superficial scales which have an entire fringe ; the 

 whole leaf devoid of setae except perhaps for a few on the 

 margin and under surface, the remains of a dense covering 

 in youth. Inflorescence a terminal umbel of about 4 

 flowers, which expand before the leaves. Bracts falling off 

 early. Pedicels about 1'5 cm. long, stifl',^ slender, and spar- 

 ingly lepidote, occasionally setulose also. Calyx small with 

 5 ovate or deltoid lobes about 2 mm. long, without hairs or 

 scales or rarely with a few. Corolla yellow, sparingly 

 lepidote outside but without hairs there, about 2 cm. long, 

 shortly campanulate or somewhat cup-shaped, expanding 

 into a spreading limb with a tube 1 cm. long, puberulous 

 inside and 5 rounded lobes each about 1 cm. broad. 

 Stamens 10 unequal, shorter than the corolla with large 

 ovoid anthers and the posterior filaments densely girt with 

 white hairs about the middle and just above the ovary, the 

 other stamens being shortly puberulous near the base only. 

 Ovary ovoid, about 5 nnn. long, densely lepidote ; style 

 longer than corolla, about 2 cm. long, quite glabrous and 

 slightly declinate, stigma lobulate. 



E. Upper Burma: — Ka-gwr-pw glacier valley. Abies 

 forest. Alt. 12,000-14,000 ft. Kingdon Ward. No. 406. 

 June 1913. Flowers large yellow. Bushy shrub of 6-8 ft. 



A bright-flowered species which should be worthy of 

 cultivation. It is easily distinguished from Rh. tricho- 

 eladurti, Franch., by its larger adult leaves without hairs 



