THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
66 H 
FLUTCAINSON 
a 27. Rhododendron pilicalyx, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
A shrub 1.25 m. high ; two-year-old branchlets covered with 
smooth grey bark, the one-year-old ones brownish and finely 
lepidote ; axillary leaf-buds just beginning to elongate at the 
time of flowering, the scales very small, lepidote outside, and 
fringed with soft white hairs. Leaves obovate or obovate- 
elliptic, acutely triangular-acuminate at the apex, a little 
narrowed to an obtuse or somewhat cuneate base, 5~-IO cm. 
long, 2-4 cm. broad, coriaceous, glabrous and dull on the upper 
surface when mature, very densely lepidote below with reddish 
or purplish-brown scales, the scales contiguous, very small, with 
a few larger and blacker ones scattered here and there, the 
epidermis between the scales densely papillous; midrib im- 
pressed above prominent and lepidote below; lateral nerves 
6-7 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 
about 45°, slightly te gens — when dry, fading towards 
the margin; petiole 0.8—-1.3 cm. long, grooved above, lepidote, 
ciliate (the hairs eentualty falling off). Inflorescence 3-5- 
flowered ; pedicels arising from approximately the same level, 
0.8-1.3 cm. long, densely lepidote. Calyx unequally 5-lobed, 
the dorsal (adaxial) lobe the longest, up to 4 mm. long, lobes 
ovate-triangular, rounded at the apex, lepidote outside, closely 
fringed with rather stiff long hairs. Corolla white with a little 
pink (Henry), 6-7 cm. long, 5-lobed, lepidote all over the outside 
except towards the margins of the lobes; tube funnel-shaped, 
2.5-3.5 cm. long, minutely pubescent outside the base, rather 
* Rhododendron pilicalyx, Hutchinson, sp. no affinis R. Surasiano, Ball. f. 
et Craib, sed squamis foliorum minoribus ances purpureo-brunneis antheris 
longioribus differt. 
vutex 1.25 m altus ; ramuli biennes cortice cinereo levi obtecti, annotini 
lepidota, epidermide dense papillosa; costa media supra impressa, infra pro- 
minens et lepidota ; nervi laterales utrinsecus 7 a costa sub angulo 45° abeuntes, 
sicco infra prominuli, versus evanidi; petioli 0.8—1.3 cm. longi, supra 
canaliculati, lepidoti, ciliati, Pilis deciduis. Inflorescentia 3-5-flora ; pedicelli sub- 
um 
ceptis lepidota ; tubus infundibuliformis, 2.5—3.5 cm. longus, basi extra minut 
ns, dense dotus ; lobi rotundati, marginibus undulatis. Stamina 11- 
13, ad loborum medium exserta; filam in triente vel quadran 
-molliter pubescentia ; antherae 5 mm. longae. Ovariwm 5-loculare, lepidotum ; 
stylus corollae fere aequilongus, in partibus —— inferioribus lepidotus 
stigmate magno depresso lobulato coronatus. Capsula non visa. 
