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grooved above, lepidote. Inflorescence up to 4-flowered ; pedi- 
cels 5 mm. long, arising from about the same level, rather 
densely lepidote. Calyx about 2 mm. long, 5-lobed, densely 
lepidote outside, and fringed with a few long hairs, the lobes 
enlarging in fruit and becoming more or less triangular. Corolla 
white, scented, 5 cm. long, spreadingly funnel-shaped, sparingly 
lepidote only on the back of the lobes, rarely a few on one side 
of the tube; tube 3 cm. long, pubescent outside in the lower 
part ; lobes 5, rounded, emarginate, about 2.5 cm. broad. 
Stamens Io, unequal, a little longer than the tube; filaments 
pubescent in the lower part; anthers 5 mm. lon Ovary 
6-celled, lepidote ; style much longer than the corolla, lepidote 
in the lower two-thirds, crowned by a rather small stigma. 
Capsule 2.5 cm. long, constricted at the base and apex, wrinkled 
and lepidote, tipped by a small portion of the persistent style, 
and girt at the base by the persistent enlarged ciliate calyx 
lobes 
KwEIcHow. Gan Chouen, April 1912, J. Cavalerie, 3883 
(Herb. Edinb.). 
Ard 21. Rhododendron roseatum, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
A shrub 1-3 m. high. One-year-old branchlets brownish 
straw-coloured, rather cass spotted with small scales, ap- 
parently not hairy ; young branchlets not seen. Leaves ovate, 
* Rhododendron roseatum, Hutchinson, sp. no affinis R. ciliicalyci, Franch., 
sed ramulis et petiolis a foliis ovatis ints densissime lepidotis, corollae 
tubo extra dense lepidoto differt. 
Frutex 1.25-3 m. a cag Ramuli annotini brunneo-straminei, squamis parvis 
arcte abet ut videtur esetosi, hornotini non visi. Folia A ay acute triangu- 
extra ubique dense lepidotus, — debilibus circiter 1.25 mm. longis, arcte 
setoso-ciliatus. Corolla alba, extra roseo paullo suffusa (Forrest), late infundibuli- 
formis, extra ubique praecipue in tubo densissime lepidota ; tubus circiter 3 cm. 
longus, apice usque ad 5 cm. latus cl lobi rotundato-elliptici, circiter 
4 cm. longi et lati, primum squamis margina Stamina 10, exserta, usque ad 
loborum medium extensa ; filamenta in mis inferiore molliter pubescentia ; 
antherae 5 mm. longae. Ovarium 6-loculare, 5 mm. 2 densissime lepi- 
dotum ; stylus curvatus, corollae fere aequalis, in dimidio inferiore dense lepi- 
dotus, stigma lobulato viscidulo coronatus. Capsu/a non visa. 
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