ERICACEAE. — RHODODENDRON 541 



2.5 m. tall); without precise locality, alt. 3100-3800 m., May 1904 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3972 and seed No. 1541). 



Franchet describes the pedicels as glabrous, but in all our specimens they are 

 glandular. He also describes the corolla as 8-lobed, but we find it usually 7-lobed. 

 The crowded sub-umbellate inflorescence, the glabrous style and ovary, shorter 

 leaves usually rounded at the base and globose winter-buds distinguish this species 

 from R. Davidii Franchet. 



Rhododendron Fortune!, Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1859, 868. — 

 Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. XCII. t. 5596 (1866). — Maximowicz in Mem. 

 Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, XVI. No. IX. 21 (1870). — Hemsley 

 in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 23 (1889). — Bean in Flora & Sylva, III. 

 164 (1905). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 487, fig. 322 g-i 

 (1909). — Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 109. 



Kiangsi : Kuling, side of stream, rare, alt. 1300 m., July 1907 (No. 

 i686; bush 2 m. tall). 



Here belongs the following variety: 



Rhododendron Fortunei, var. Houlstonii Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



Rhododendron Houlstonii Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 

 1910, 110. 



Western Hupeh: without precise locality, May and September 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. Nos. 312, 609 in part, 1077 fruit only); without locality, A. Henry (No. 

 5354). Eastern Szech'uan: south Wushan Hsien, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 609, in part; bush 3 m. tall, flowers rosy-pink). 



This variety is distinguished from the type by its smaller, narrower leaves, 

 usually cuneate, or very rarely rounded or subcordate at the base ; more glandular 

 pedicels, ovary and style rather smaller and slightly and somewhat differently 

 shaped flowers. All the Hupeh specimens we have seen are referable to this 

 variety. Both in their number and length the glands on the ovary and style show 

 much variation. Rhododendron Houlstonii Hemsley & Wilson was founded on 

 specimens with very long etipitate glands; the specimens before us show every 

 gradation from these etipitate glands to sessile glands. It is possible that the 

 Hupeh form is scarcely deserving of varietal rank, but for the present it seems to 

 us desirable to consider it as a variety. 



Rhododendron decorum Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 

 230 (1886); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, X. 47 (PI. David. II. 

 83) (1888). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 22 (1889). — Diels 

 in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 511 (1900). — Bean in Flora & Sijlva, III. 163 

 (1905). — Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 109. 



Rhododendron lucidum Franchet in Jour, de Bot. IX. 300 (non Nuttall) (1895) 



— Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XLVII. 121, t. (1910). 

 Rhododendron vernicosum Franchet in Jour, de Bot. XII. 258 (1898). 

 Rhododendron Spooneri Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 



110. 



