68 HuTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON, 
shrub about 12 ft. high, fls. pale pink, on rocky ground in 
open evergreen jungle, 7th June 1914, A. F. G. Kerr, 3238. 
his species is almost a counterpart of my R. pilicalyx from 
South-East Yunnan. But the scales on the lower leaf-surface 
of the latter are smaller and more fleshy in the middle, ~ the 
epidermis is fairly clearly visible between them. The anthers 
too are decidly longer, about 5 mm. long in R. pilicalyx and 
7mm. long in R. Surasianum. These taken into consideration 
with the widely separated distribution leave very little doubt 
in my mind that the two are distinct species. 
agy 29. Rhododendron supranubium, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
Shrub 14-4 ft. high ; branches twiggy, short ; one-year-old 
branchlets more or less straw-coloured, laxly lepidote, about 
3 mm. thick; young branchlets densely lepidote, the scale- 
leaves in the lower part gradually changing into foliage leaves ; 
leaf-bearing axillary buds mostly just elongating at the time 
of flowering, the bud-scales broadly ovate-orbicular, subobtusely 
* Rhododendron a aca t Hutchinson, sp. nov. sons er cilticalyct, 
Franch., sed petiolis brevioribus, foliis plerumqu dbovato-+ inorib 
squamis infra Sedeiaeties. corollae tubo extra dense lepidoto differt. 
Frutex usque ad 1.25 m. altus; rami breves; ramuli annotini plus minusve 
straminei, laxe lepidoti, circiter 3 mm i, juniores dense lepidoti, foliis squami- 
us m, 
marginibus pi 
albidis mollibus instructis. Folia oblanceolata vel slirats-cliieed be Sig 
elliptica, breviter et abrupte obtuse acuminata, 3.5-9 cm. longa, 1.3—3.3 cm. lata, 
rigide coriacea, supra juventute dense pene et ciliata, ne glabra, et 
leviter nitida, infra glauca et dense lepid ota, 
petioli 0.5-I cm, longi, squamis parvis subdense obtecti, Sears setis pencs 
marginati, supra canaliculati. Inflovescentia usque ad 3-flora, saepe 1 
— ee mits — asin pilis mollibus —— circumdatis ; sicuaiae 
squama , labroses ; orbiculares, 
breviter sia. acuminatae, circiter I.5 cm. ‘longae, tenuiter coriaceae in parte 
lata | epidotae, pilis brevibus mollibus albidis marginatae; bracteolae 
, apicem versus paullo spatulatae, circiter 2.5 cm. longae, extra pilis 
albidis mollibus in dutae ; pedicelli 1 cm. longi, circiter 2 mm. crassi, dense lepidoti. 
Calyx plus minusve cupularis vel patelliformis, plerumque distincte sed interdum 
obscure lobatus, usque ad 2 mm. longus et 3 mm. latus, extra lepidotus, pilis longis 
dimidio inferiore dense lepidotus, stigmate disciformi viscido coronatus 
non visa. : 
