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oblong, truncate, filaments white-hairy. Style glabrous, 

 much shorter than the stamens, thick ; stigma capitate, 

 large; ovary silky. 



This pretty shrub belongs to the set of tubular-flowered 

 Rhododendrons with small lobes to the corolla which hardly 

 spread and thus is allied to El. elegans of Gunong Tahaii 

 and Rh. spathulatutn of Gunong Kerbau but is larger than 

 either. 



55. Rhododendron orion, .sp. nov. 



A shrub with wrinkled reddish brown branches. Leaves 

 coriaceous in whorls of six or seven obovate, the base narrowed 

 to the ])etiole, apex rounded, retuse, margin recurved, 

 midrib, thick, elevated, sparingly scaly, depressed above ; 

 nerves four pairs indistinct, slightly elevate beneath, de- 

 pressed above, 4.5 cm. long, 2.3 cm. wide, petiole 0.5 cm. 

 long. Flowers numerous, terminal, six or more in the umbel, 

 peduncle very short, covered with lanceolate acute glabrous 

 bracts, pedicels .slender, 2 cm. long scaly. Calyx saucer- 

 shaped very small, margin obscut-ely lobed. Corolla short 

 tubed, infundibuliform, tube widening upwards, scaly, lobes 

 oblong ovate, obtuse, spreading scalj-, 1 cm. long and 0.6 

 cm. wide ; whole corolla, 2.4 cm. long, apparently yellow. 

 Stamens exsert as long as the petals 2.4 cm. long, filaments 

 slender, glabrous ; anthers small 0.1 cm. long, oblong 

 truncate. Style stout, glabrous, stigma large, capitate, 

 ovary glabrous, scurfy. Capsule subfusiform, not twisted, 

 5-valved 5-ribbed scurfy-scaly, 1.3. cm. long. 



Allied to Rh. Soortechinii] King and Gamble, but with less 

 prominent nerves and longer stamens. 



[On previous visits to the mountian I have met with this 

 species as a small shrub growing in shady gullies ; flowers 

 pale yellow with an apricot tinge— H.C.R.] 



56. Rhododendron Robinsoni, Ridley. 



A small specimen appears to be this plant. 

 Distrib. — Pahang mountains. 



57. Rhododendron malayanum. Jack. 



Distrib. — Common on all the mountain ranges of the ^Malay 

 Peninsula from 3,000 to 5,000 feet and also in Sumatra and 

 Java. 



58. Pernettyopsis malayana, King and Gamble. 



Distrib. — Perak mountains to 6,500 feet. 



59. DiPLYCosiA ERYTHRiNA, King and Gamble. 



Specimens in fruit. 



Distrib. — Perak, Java and Sumati'a. 



Jan.. 1914, 



