HUTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 79 
brown, sparingly lepidote, with a few long stiff hairs; axillary 
leaf-bearing buds already elongated at the time of flowering, 
scale-leaves subpersistent, the lowermost ovate and very minutely 
ciliolate, inconspicuously lepidote outside near the middle, the 
upper ones more spathulate and thinner and fringed with long 
hairs towards the base, the tips softly and densely ciliolate. 
Leaves elongate-oblong-elliptic, obtuse at the base, gradually 
narrowed to a rather long mucronate apex, I0-1I cm. long, 
3-3.5 cm. broad, rigidly but rather thinly coriaceous, loosely 
lepidote above when quite young, soon becoming nearly glabrous 
and reticulate, probably somewhat glaucous below and lepidote, 
the scales slightly more than their own diameter apart, some- 
what unequal, the epidermis between the scales closely papillous ; 
midrib narrowly impressed above, fairly prominent below, 
sparingly lepidote ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the 
midrib, faint below; petioles 1-2 cm. long, grooved above, 
and with a few long stiff hairs on the margin, punctate-lepidote. 
Inflorescence 2-flowered; flowering buds not seen; pedicels 
5 mm. long, stout, densely lepidote with yellowish scales. Calyx 
oblique, about 3 mm. long on the dorsal (adaxial) side, undu- 
lately lobed, densely lepidote outside, apparently not ciliate. 
Corolla (colour ?) about 7 cm. long, 5-lobed, fairly widely funnel- 
shaped ; tube up to 4 cm. long, lepidote only on the dorsal 
(adaxial) side, softly pubescent towards the base; lobes with 
undulate margins, laxly lepidote outside. Stamens to, nearly 
as long as the corolla ; filaments pubescent in their lower part ; 
anthers 5.mm.long. Ovary 6-celled, 6mm. long, abruptly con- 
tracted into the style, densely lepidote; style slightly longer 
than the stamens, rather laxly scaly in the lowermost 4 of its 
length, crowned by a discoid lobulate stigma. Capsule not 
known. 
NortH BurMa. Bhamo Division: Maru-kahtaung (Sindum), 
5500 ft., March 1909, G. E. S. Cubitt, 385 (Herb. Edinb.). 
The above description has been drawn up from the single 
flowering specimen quoted. The species may be regarded as 
a northern outlier of R. Vettchianum, Hook., and in many 
respects it is intermediate between that species and R. formosum, 
Wall., from the Khasia Hills. It has the bristly shoots, leaf 
margins, and petioles of R. formosum, and flowers like R. Veitchi- 
anum. The elongated leaves are not at all obovate as in both 
the other species. 
