54 HvuTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
18. Rhododendron pseudociliicalyx, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
One-year-old shoots about 4 mm. thick, rather densely bristly 
with hairs in the upper part, becoming less bristly below, rather 
minutely lepidote ; bark dull brown; axillary leaf-bearing buds 
still dormant or just starting to elongate at the time of flowering, 
the scale-leaves leathery, lepidote outside, fringed with soft 
white hairs. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, widest at 
the middle, equally narrowed to both ends, with an obtuse 
callous mucro at the apex, 6-8 cm. long, 2.5-3 cm. broad, thinly 
leathery, laxly and faintly reticulate above and with a few 
scales persisting here and there, glaucous-green below and rather 
densely covered with very unequal-sized pale orange-yellow 
scales ectaea the usin less than their own diameter apart, 
with very narrow fringe; epidermis rather laxly covered 
with rod- like eee. midrib slightly impressed above, pro- 
minent below, covered with a few scales; lateral nerves about 
6 on each side of the midrib, rather faint on both surfaces, 
looped some distance from the margin ; petiole 0.5-1 cm. long, 
grooved above, densely lepidote, ciliate with long weak hairs. 
Inflorescence 3-4-flowered ; pedicels arising from different levels, 
about 8 mm. long, densely lepidote with light-coloured scales. 
Calyx saucer-shaped, undulately lobed, 2 mm. long, lepidote 
outside, the tops of the lobes sometimes with a few (1 or 2) 
long hairs. Corolla about 6.5 cm. long; tube 4 cm. long, very 
slightly pubescent outside the base, sometimes with one or two 
scales here and there ; lobes 5, broadly oblong-rounded, lepidote 
outside and on the finely undulate margin. Stamens 10, unequal, 
exserted ; filaments pubescent in the lower part; anthers 4 
mm. long. Ovary 5-celled, 5 mm. long, densely lepidote ; style 
nearly as long as the corolla, lepidote in the lower half, 
sg endl cease sage sabay ae: Hutchinson, SP. nov. ; affinis R. ciliicalyct, 
Franch., sed r. libus densioribus: 
differt. 
Ramuhi annotini circiter 4 mm. crassi, superne dense setosi, inferne subglabre- 
scentes, minute lepidoti, cortice fusco-brunnei ; gemmae foliiferae axillares sub 
anthesin vix evolutae. Folia elliptica vel elliptico-lanceolata, medio latiora, 
subracemosi, circiter 8 mm. longi, dense lepidoti. Calyx patelliformis, undulate 
lobatus, 2 mm. longus, extra lepidotus, interdum parce Chavis, Corolla circiter 
inferne pubescentia ; antherae 4 mm.longae. Ovarium 5-loculare, 5 mm _ longum, 
dense lepidotum ; stylus canes fere mE, yore in dimidio inferiore lepidotus, 
stigmate profunde lobulato coronatus. 
