56 HUTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
two-thirds, crowned by a large lobulate stigma. Capsule 1.2 
cm. long, wrinkled and lepidote. 
N.E. YuNNAN. Tong-Koua-pin, gooo ft., on rocks, fis. 
April 1911, E. E. Maire; E. E. Maire, 20, 21 (Herb. Edinb.). 
Motsou region of Kiao Kia, plant collected by Pére S. Ten, 
March 1909, F. Ducloux, 1270, 1271. 
20. Rhododendron Lyi, Léveillé, in Fedde, Repert. 
Xilil. 147 (1914). 
A shrub 1.75-2 m. high; one-year-old branchlets slender, 
about 2.5 mm. thick, sparingly lepidote and bristly with rather 
Fic. 7.—Rhododendron Lyi, Léveillé. Nat. size. 
weak long hairs. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 
shortly rounded-triangular and obtusely mucronate at the 
apex, a little narrowed to an obtuse base, 3.5-8 cm. long, 1.3-3 
cm. broad, rigidly coriaceous, glossy and reticulate above, 
lepidote below, the scales rather unequal and less than their 
own diameter apart, the epidermis between the scales rather 
densely papillous; midrib impressed above, prominent below 
and lepidote ; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, 
slightly distinct below; petiole 5.7 mm. long, at first ciliate, 
