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98 94 25. Rhododendron rufosquamosum, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
A shrub 1 m. high; older branchlets covered with smooth 
grey bark; one-year-old branchlets sparingly lepidote, about 
3-5 mm. thick; axillary leaf-buds still dormant at the time of 
flowering, the scale leaves rather lax, leathery, and minutely 
fringed with hairs a little keeled and lepidote near the middle. 
Leaves oblanceolate, obtusely triangular-acuminate at the apex, 
gradually narrowed to an acute base, 7-12 cm. long, 1.8-4 cm. 
broad, rather thinly coriaceous, strongly reticulate above and 
lepidote towards the midrib, densely rufous-lepidote below, the 
scales about one-half their own diameter or less apart, with a 
few larger and darker coloured ones scattered here and there, 
the lower epidermis between the scales densely papillous ; 
midrib impressed above, prominent and lepidote beneath; 
lateral nerves very slender, about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
a little raised on the upper surface, slightly prominent below ; 
petiole 0.8-1.3 cm. long, deeply grooved on the upper side, 
punctate-lepidote. Inflorescence few-flowered (probably about 
3), the pedicels arising from approximately the same level; 
pedicels 5-7 mm. long, lepidote. Calyx very small, plate-like, 
scarcely lobed, densely lepidote outside and closely fringed 
with weak hairs about 3 mm. long. Corolla white, pink in bud 
(Henry), tubular-funnel-shaped, rather narrow towards the base, 
about 7 cm. long, lepidote all over the outside except towards 
the margin of the lobes; tube 3.5—4 cm. long, softly pubescent 
at the base outside; lobes 5, rounded-oblong, about 2.5 cm. 
* Rhododendron rufosquamosum, Hutchinson, sp. nov. ; affinis R. supranubio, 
Hutchinson, sed foliis basi longe attenuatis stylo in partibus duabus inferioribus 
Frutex 1 m. altus; ramuli vetustiores ican cinereo levi obtecti, annotini 
parce lepidoti, circiter 3.5 mm. crassi; gemmae floriferae axillares sub anthesin 
adhuc non elongatae, squamis laxis coriaceis 2 pilis minutis marginatis carinatis 
medium versus lepidotis. Folia oblanceolata, ra triangulari-acuminata, basi 
acuto sensim angustata, 7-12 cm. longa, 1.8—4 cm. lata, tenuiter coriacea, supra 
reticulata et medium versus lepidota, squamis cicees diametro suo dimidius 
munus 
profunde canaliculati, punctato-lepidoti. Inflorescentia pauciflora (probabier 3-), 
pedicellis subumbellatis; pedicelli 5-7 mm. longi, lepidoti minim 
patelliformis, vix lobatus, extra dense visage et pilis debilibus pee 3 mm. 
longis marginatus. Corolla alba, alabastro rosea (Henry), tubuloso-infundibuli- 
‘formis, basin versus angusta, circiter 7 cm. ae: xtra 
exceptis lepidota ; tubus 3.5-4 cm. longus, extra seneonpagh molliter pubescens ; Tobi 5 
rotundato-oblongi, circiter 2.5 cm. lati. Stamina 10, 
filamenta in quadrante inferiore molliter Biers antherae 5 mm. longae. 
6-loculare, 5 mm. = basi disco molliter tomentoso 
corollae fere aequalis, in partibus 
cimetum, apice ; stylus 
duabus inferioribus lepidotus, ation lobulato coronatus. Capsula non visa. 
