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slightly ascending, reticulations small, fine and conspicuous, 

 glabrous, with no scales or gland dots, 12-13 em. long, 4-4.5 

 cm. wide, petiole, 2.5 cm. long, rugose. Flowers in a head 

 of 10 to 12, bracts coriaceous, lowest ones lanceolate, 3 cm. 

 long, upper ones 1 cm. obovate, rounded, often split, all 

 silvery pubescent, lowest one silky hairy. Calyx flat with 

 five short teeth, hairy. Corolla broadly bell-shaped, tube 

 short, widely dilate, 4 cm. long, limb 5 cm. across, lobes 

 broad, bluntly rounded, ovate, 2 cm. wide across the top. 

 Stamens not exsert, shorter than the style, filaments fairly 

 stout, glabrous. Anthers oblong, truncate, curved. Style 

 stout, longer. Stigma broad, pistil cylindric, short stout 

 glabrous. 



The flowers appear to have been white with perhaps some 

 dark colouring at the base of the tube. The young bud 

 leaves are scaly but otherwise there are no scales on the 

 foliage. Of our species the plant appears to be nearest to 

 B. Wrayi, King and Gamble, but has much thinner leaves, 

 with longers petioles. The silky bracts of the inflorescence 

 are very characteristic. 



[This handsome Rhododendron is the dominant plant in the 

 rain forest just below the comb of the ridges. It is a small 



■ lanky tree growing to about 25 feet whereas B. Wrayi, which 

 is found on the hills above the Semangko Pass, is a short 

 compact shrub growing on the actual summits in exposed 

 situations. The flowers of the present species are somewhat 

 translucent white, the tube at the base speckled with dark 

 purplish— H.C.R.] 



53. Rhododendron • javanicum, Bennett. 



Distrib. — Perak, Kedah, Sumatra, Java and Celebes. 



54. Rhododendron calocodon, sj). nov. 



A small shrub, probably epiphytic, with dusky rough 

 branches. Leaves in whorls of six obovate to rounded, base 

 shortly narrowed and obtuse, coriaceous, above smooth 

 green, beneath yellowish, closely gland-dotted ; nerves 

 three pairs, almost always invisible. Midrib beneath thick, 

 narrowing i^apidly to the apex, above faintly depressed, 

 3 cm. long, 2 cm. wide or smaller, petiole very short 0.1 cm. 

 Flowers solitary, terminal, on a pubescent pedicel 1 cm. 

 long. Bracts in bud, numerous ovate obtuse glabrous, 

 basals shortly mucronate, reddish. Calyx cup-shaped with 

 short indistinct points, pubescent, 0.1 cm. long. Corolla 

 cylindric campanulate 2 cm. long, mouth 1.5 cm. wide, dark 

 red with white hairs outside and inside, lobes short oblong, 

 apex broad retuse, 0.4 cm. long and 0.5 cm. wide. 

 Stamens not exsert, shorter than the corolla, 10 ; anthers 



