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52 ELUICHINSON 
THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Owing to some mischance it was stated in the Botanical 
Magazine that this species was gathered on Sindaung Mountain 
in the Southern Shan States, but Sir Frederick Moore wrote 
later informing the Director, on Lady Wheeler Cuffe’s authority, 
that it was from Mt. Victoria in S.W. Burma. 
17. Rhododendron oye eS Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France, xxxiii. 233 (1886); Le Jardin, ix. 51 (1895); 
Rev. Horticol. 1899, 36; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7782 
(1901). 
A shrub up to I m. high (up to 3 m. in cultivation) ; older 
branchlets with loose grey smooth bark ; one-year-old branchlets 
pale yellow when dry, rather loosely covered with small scales, 
sometimes sparingly strigose amongst the scars of the bud- 
scales ; axillary leaf-buds just elongating at the time of flowering, 
the scales broadly ovate, subacute, leathery, slightly lepidote 
on the back, fringed within the margin with a conspicuous 
beard of dense soft white hairs. Leaves elliptic, obovate-elliptic 
or oblong-lanceolate, rather acutely pointed, slightly narrowed 
or rounded to an obtuse base, 6-9 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. broad, 
rigidly coriaceous, conspicuously reticulate and glabrous (at 
first lepidote) above, glaucous-grey beneath and lepidote, the 
scales golden-brown and considerably more than their own 
diameter apart, in the wild examples the epidermis rather 
densely covered between the scales with short rod-like papillae 
(see note at end of description) ; petioles 1.3-1.5 cm. long, 
punctate with small scales, with a narrow groove on the upper 
-side, with a few long bristles on the edges especially when young. 
Inflorescence about 3-flowered, the pedicels arising from about 
the same level; scars of the fallen bud-scales fairly dense, 
transversely linear, straw-coloured ; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, 
about 2 mm. thick, rather densely lepidote with small scales 
especially just below the calyx. Calyx rather variable in size, 
5-lobed to near the base ; lobes 2.5-6 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, 
‘submembranous, laxly scaly outside, bristly all round the 
margins with slender hairs about 3 mm. long. Corolla white 
or rose (Delavay), rather widely funnel-shaped, gradually opening 
from the base upwards; tube a little shorter than the lobes, 
2.5-3 cm. long, about 5 mm. in diameter at the base, 3-4 cm. 
wide at the top when flattened out, not scaly outside but 
slightly and shortly pubescent towards the base; lobes 5, 
ovate-orbicular, about 3.5 cm. long, and broad, sometimes with 
a few golden scales on the back. Stamens 10-11, unequal in 
length, the longest nearly as long as the corolla ; filaments 
rather long-pilose in their lower third; anthers m mm. long. 
