62 HUTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
scent around the base; lobes 5, rounded, lepidote outside. 
Stamens 10, reaching to about the middle of the corolla lobes ; 
filaments densely pilose in the lower half; anthers 7 mm. long. 
Ovary 6-celled, 8 mm. long, ribbed, densely lepidote, girt at the 
base with a lobulate tomentose disk ; style as long as the corolla, 
lepidote in the lower half, crowned by a large disk-like many 
lobulate stigma. Capsule not seen. 
N. Burma. Nwai Valley; small shrub 4-6 ft., generally 
epiphytic at tops of 50-60 it. trees; trusses with few flowers, 
white tinged with pink, orange mark inside on lower petals, 
11th May 1914, Kingdon Ward, 1538 (Herb. Edinb.). 
24. Rhododendron Ludwigianum, Hosseus in Beihefte z. 
Bot. Centralbl. xxvili. 422 (1911). Rhododendron sb., 
Hosseus, l.c. xxvii. 506 (1910). 
A shrub I-1.5 m. high; branches evidently very short and 
almost leafless at the time of flowering, closely warted with the 
scars of the fallen leaves; one-year-old branchlets very short 
and lepidote. Leaves (only three small ones seen) obovate, 
narrowed to an obtuse base, triangular at the apex, 3-4 cm. 
long, I.5-2 cm. broad, rigidly coriaceous, dull and impressed 
reticulate above and apparently glabrous, densely lepidote 
below, the scales about one-half their own diameter apart, dark 
brown in the middle with a narrow paler fringe, the epidermis 
papillous between the scales ; midrib impressed above, prominent 
and rather densely lepidote beneath; lateral nerves 5-6 on 
each side of the midrib, impressed above, distinct below; 
petiole about 4 mm. long, grooved above, lepidote. Inflores- 
cence 2-3 flowered ; pedicels inserted on a densely villous very 
short axis, 3-6 mm. long, very densely lepidote; bracts linear- 
spathulate, softly villous and lepidote. Calyx small, obscurely 
lobed, densely lepidote, very sparingly ciliate. -Corolla white 
and rose (Hosseus), about 6.5 cm. long, densely and softly 
villous-pubescent all over the outside, lepidote on the back of 
the lobes and down one side of the tube; tube about 3.5 cm. 
long, funnel-shaped; lobes 5, rounded, glabrous towards the 
margin. Stamens to, a little exserted ; filaments pilose in the 
lower 4, the longest about 3 cm. long; anthers 5-6 mm. 
long. Ovary 6-celled, lepidote ; style lepidote in the lower half ; 
stigma rather small and disk-like, about 3 mm. wide (when 
dry). Capsule not seen. 
Stam. Doi Djieng Dao, Kalkgipfel III, 6600 ft., shrub 
3-4} ft. high, fls. white-rose, twigs without leaves, 17th February 
1905, C. C. Hosseus, 401. 
