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towards the margin; secondary nerves slender and incon- 
spicuous, more or less parallel; petioles terete except for a 
shallow groove on the upper side, about 3 mm. thick, dark purple, 
covered with fairly close small whitish scales or punctate with 
their remains. Inflorescence about 5-flowered, the pedicels 
arising from rather different levels (very shortly racemose) ; 
scars of the fallen scales dense and contiguous, transversely 
linear, straw-coloured ; pedicels fairly stout, 2.5-3 cm. long, 
about 2.5 mm. thick, probably at length nodding and curved, 
quite glabrous. Calyx 2.3 cm. long, campanulate, with a re- 
markably long tube about 1.5 cm. long, glabrous outside ; lobes 
5, very broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, about 1.3 cm. long 
and up to 1.5 cm. broad, not ciliate. Corolla white, with a 
sweet nutmeg-like smell (Ward), broadly funnel-shaped-cam- 
panulate, probably slightly asymmetrical, laxly scaly mainly 
in line below and on the back of the lobes; tube 6 cm. long, 
rather abruptly constricted towards the base, nearly I cm. in 
diameter at the base, about 8 cm. broad at the top when flattened 
out ; lobes 5, broadly semicircular, about 3 cm. broad, very 
thin when dry. Stamens io, a little shorter than the corolla 
tube ; filaments slender, unequal, pubescent in the lowermost 
fourth of their length; anthers comparatively small, about 
5 mm. long. Ovary 5-celled, 7 mm. long, abruptly contracted 
into the style, densely lepidote; style curved, a little longer 
than the corolla tube, with a few white scattered scales only 
towards the base, glabrous above, fairly stout, crowned by a 
slightly lobulate stigma about 5 mm. wide when flattened out. 
Capsule enclosed by the persistent rigidly membranous calyx 
lobes, 2 cm. long, covered with golden somewhat glandular 
scales. 
East UPPER BurMA. Nwai Valley; bushy tree of 15-25 ft., 
in rain forest, rather open ground, by stream, 7000-8000 ft., 
flower white, smelling very sweetly of nutmeg, ae June r9r4, 
Kingdon Ward, 1628 (Herb. Edinb.). 
9. Rhododendron liliiflorum, Léveillé in Fedde, Repert. 
Xiil. 102 (I9I3). 
Branchlets not seen. Leaves (seen only in a fragmentary 
condition) oblong-lanceclate, slightly narrowed to the base, 
apex not seen but evidently subacute, 7-14 cm. long, 2-4 cm. 
broad, rigidly coriaceous, dull and impressed-reticulate on the 
upper surface, glabrous except for the finely scaly lower portion 
of the midrib, finely lepidote below, the scales about their own 
diameter apart, small and equal in size, reddish-brown, glistening 
when dry, fleshy in the middle, with a rather narrow membranous 
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