60 HUTCHINSON—-THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
nearly as long as the corolla, lepidote in its lower half, not 
airy, crowned by the lobulate viscid stigma about 3.5 mm. 
broad. Capsule not seen. 
WESTERN YUNNAN. Shweli-Salween Divide, lat. 25° 5’ N., 
8000-9000 ft., in pine forest, shrub 12-15 ft., flowers white, 
yellow inside the base, fragrant, May 1913, G. Forrest, 9919. 
his is about the nearest approach to R. ciliicalyx, Franch., 
collected by Mr Forrest. It seems sufficiently distinct, however, 
in its shorter petioles, much more densely scaly leaves, lepidote 
corolla nese: and the style lepidote for about two-thirds of 
its length 
The name lasiopodum applies to the small softly tomentose 
portion of the axis of the inflorescence, which protrudes above 
the scars of the floral bud-scales, and from which the pedicels 
eventually break off. 
agp 23. Rhododendron dendricola, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
A small shrub 1.25-2 m. high, generally epiphytic at summits 
of trees 16-20 m. high; one-year-old branchlets sparingly 
lepidote, apparently not hairy; young branchlets evidently 
well advanced at flowering time, laxly lepidote. Leaves oblong- 
elliptic, rather abeaet ey and subacutely acuminate, rounded- 
obtuse at the base, 8-12 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, rigidly 
coriaceous, Aaa “dull and not reticulate above (lepidote 
when quite young), densely lepidote beneath, the scales reddish- 
brown and a little less than their own diameter apart, rather 
unequal in size, the lower epidermis between the scales densely 
-papillous; midrib impressed above, prominent and 
* Rhododendron dendricola, Hutchinson, sp. nov., affinis R. lasiopodo, Hutchin- 
son, sed foliis abrupte subacute acuminatis, pedicellis basi non lasiopodis, calyce 
ffert. 
Sian 1.25-2 m. altus, plerumque in arboribus epiphyticus ; ramuli annotini 
pare idoti, epilosi, Beagm sub anthesin jam bene evoluti, lepidoti. Folia 
ae -elliptica, abrupte subacute acuminata basi rotundato-obtusa, 8-12 cm. 
longa, 3—5 cm. lata, parr coriacea, glabra, SuDEe opaca tt non ceeemata (juniora 
lepidota), infra dense lepidota 
i aequalibus, epidermide inferiore dense papillosa ; costa supra 
Bsc: suai _ Prominens et lepidota; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7-8, i 
maenlstn. circiter 8 cm. longa ; tubus sate infundibuliformis, basin Venres ‘abrupte 
mstrictus, circiter 3.5 cm. lon: extra 
lobi 5, rotundati, extra lepidoti. Stamina 10, exse tta ; filamenta in dimidio inferi- 
ore dense pilosa; antherae 7 mm. an ERS: Qvarium 6-loculare, 8 mm. longum, 
m,d lepidotum, basi di cinctum; stylus corollae aequalis, 
in dimidio inferiore lepidotus, stants diseiformi multilobulato coronatus. 
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