64 HvuTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
broad. Stamens 10, exserted to about the middle of the lobes ; 
filaments softly pubescent in the lowermost $; anthers 5 mm. 
long. Ovary 6-celled, 5 mm. long, lepidote, girt with a softly 
tomentose disk at the base, rounded truncate at the top; style 
nearly as long as the corolla, lepidote in the lower ?, crowned 
by a fist-like lobulate stigma. Capsule not seen. 
S.W. YuNNAN. Szemao Hills, 4800 ft., shrub 3 ft., fis. 
white (buds pink), 9th May, A. Henry, 11983. 
ag 26. Rhododendron Scottianum, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
A shrub up to 12 ft. high; one-year-old branchlets rather 
densely lepidote with small scales, pale straw-coloured or 
brownish when dry, not strigose (so far as observed) ; young 
branchlets densely lepidote ; axillary leaf-buds mostly already 
well elongated at the time of flowering, the scales slightly lepidote 
on the back and fringed with rather short white soft hairs. 
Leaves obovate or more rarely elliptic-obovate, slightly narrowed 
to a broadish base, with a more or less rounded-triangular sub- 
acutely mucronate apex, 6-10 cm. long, 2.5—4 cm. broad, rather 
rigidly coriaceous, at first lepidote above but soon glabrous 
and faintly reticulate on the upper surface, ferruginous below 
with dense scales, the scales often nearly contiguous and never 
* Rhododendron Scottianum, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; affinis R. ciliicalyci 
Franch., sed foliis plerumque obovatis infra squamis fere:6 a cane corollae tubo 
extra dense lepidoto, stylo in partibus duabus inferioribus lepidoto differt. 
acute mucronata, 6-10 cm. longa, 2. x4 cm ta, ge coriacea, primum supra 
longi, verrucosi et lepidoti, supra canaliculati, primum cum foliortit 
setoso-ciliati, demum eciliati. Inflorescentia terminalia, folia superans, se 
brosae 
verse lineares, stramineae ; ‘pedicelli 1-1 .5 cm. longi, circiter 2.5 Mm. crassi, 
squamis contiguis vel imbricatis densissime lepidoti. Calyx plerumque parvus 
et plus minusve patelliformis, obscure lobatus vel rare lobo uno elongato et 
: ; lepid 
duabus inferioribus lepidotus, nec pubescens, stigmate viscido lobulato circiter 
mm. lato coronatus. Capsula non visa. 
