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form as it were intermediate between foliage-leaves and 
scale-leaves. The bud—vegetative as well as flower—lies 
embosomed in these which do not belong to the axis-segment 
of the bud, are not bud-scale leaves, but the last formed of 
the preceding foliage-shoot and have buds in their axils.” 
16. Rhododendron Cuffeanum, Craib ex Hutchinson 
in Bot. Mag. t. 8721 (1917). 
A loosely branched shrub ; stem swollen at the base ; young 
shoots pale grey, covered with brown peltate scales; older 
branchlets pale brown, closely marked with the traces of fallen 
scales. Leaves few, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, gradu- 
ally and shortly acuminate to an obtuse tip, gradually narrowed 
to the base, up to 10 cm. long and 3 cm. broad, coriaceous, at 
first lepidote above, soon becoming glabrescent and conspicuously 
reticulate, rather densely lepidote below, the scales unequal 
and about their own or slightly less than their own diameter 
apart, the epidermis densely papillous between the scales; 
‘midrib impressed above, slightly raised beneath ; lateral nerves 
6-7 on each side of the midrib, slender, flexuous, slightly raised 
on each surface; petiole 1.2 cm. long, lepidote, grooved above. 
Inflorescence about 5-flowered, the pedicels arising from approxi- 
mately the same level ; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, densely lepidote, 
about 1.5 mm. thick. Calyx foliaceous, nearly 1 cm. long, 
unequally 5-lobed, the 2 abaxial lobes larger than the others, 
oblong or oblong-rounded, rounded at the apex, lepidote, fringed 
with a few weak hairs. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 6.5 cm. 
long, white, with a large yellow blotch within the upper side 
of the tube; tube 3.5 cm. long, softly pubescent outside 
towards the base, not lepidote except towards the 5 lobes which 
are sparingly so towards the middle. Stamens 10, exserted, 
unequal, the shortest a little longer than the corolla tube; 
filaments softly villous-pubescent in their lower half; anthers 
brown, 6 mm. long. Ovary 6-celled, about 1 cm. long, densely 
lepidote; style longer than the corolla, sparingly lepidote towards 
the base, crowned by a capitate dark brown stigma. Capsule 
not seen. 
SoutH-WEst Burma. Mt. Victoria, Lady Wheeler Cuffe. 
Young plants of this species were collected on Mt. Victoria 
by Lady Wheeler Cuffe and presented to the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Glasnevin, in August 1913. From one of these, which 
flowered in May 1915, was obtained the material om which the 
above description is based, and which was figured in the 
Botanical Magazine. | 
