58 HvuTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
acutely triangular-acuminate, broadly rounded at the base, 
8-10 cm. long, 3—4.5 cm. broad, rigidly coriaceous, at fitst 
lepidote above, soon nearly glabrous and rather dull, glaucous 
and very densely lepidote below, the scales unequal in size, 
reddish, and much less than their own diameter apart, or nearly 
contiguous, the epidermis between the scales densely papillous ; 
midrib sunken above and rather densely lepidote, prominent 
and rounded below and lepidote, about 2.25 mm. broad at the 
base, gradually tapered to the apex into the somewhat callous 
mucro; lateral nerves about 6-8 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, rather arcuate and a little flexuous below, with scarcely 
any visible secondary nerves or veins; petioles grooved above, 
about 7 mm. long and 3 mm. wide, lepidote. Inflorescence 
about 4-flowered, the pedicels arising from about the same 
level ; scars of the fallen bud-scales callously thickened, nearly 
contiguous ; bud-scales (only one seen) softly and very shortly 
pubescent outside and lepidote; pedicels about 1 cm. long, 
densely lepidote. Calyx small and obscurely 5-lobed, about 
1.5 mm. long, densely scaly all over the outside, densely setose- 
ciliate with rather weak hairs about 1.25 mm. long. Corolla 
white, faintly flushed with rose outside (Forrest), widely funnel- 
shaped, densely scaly all over the outside, especially on the 
tube ; tube about 3 cm. long, up to 5 cm. wide at the top when 
flattened out ; lobes rounded-elliptic, about 4 cm. long and as 
much broad, at first fringed with scales. Stamens 10, exserted, 
reaching to about the middle of the corolla lobes; filaments 
softly pubescent in their lower third; anthers 5 mm. long. 
Ovary 6-celled, 5 mm. long, very densely scaly; style curved, 
nearly as long as the corolla, rather densely scaly in its lower 
half, crowned by a large lobulate somewhat viscid stigma. 
Capsule not seen 
WESTERN YUNNAN. Shweli-Salween Divide, lat. 25° 20’ N., 
gooo ft., shrub 4-9 ft., on open scrub, May 1913, G. Forrest, 
11866. 
ait 22. Rhododendron lasiopodum, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
A shrub 4-5 m. high; one-year-old branchlets pale straw- 
coloured, rather blotched and sparingly lepidote ; young branch- 
lets densely lepidote; axillary leaf-buds already elongating at 
the time of flowering, when partly pit oe more or less shaped 
* Rhododendron lasiopodum, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; affinis R. ites en 
Franch., sed petiolis plerumque brevioribus, foliis infra denne lepidotis. 
tubo lepidoto, stylo in partibus duabus inferioribus lepidoto differt. 
Frutex 4-5 m. altus; ramuli annotini pallide straminei, parce lepidoti, juniores 
dense lepidoti. Gemmae foliiferae axillares sub anthesin jam elongatae, squamis 
. 
cE f — = RP MAL Vint 
