82 HuTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON, 
flowered ; outer bud-scales broadly ovate, long-caudate acu- 
minate, submembranous, densely lepidote outside, long-ciliate, 
the inner ones suborbicular, mucronate, villous with white hairs 
on the margin, sparingly lepidote outside ; pedicels 0.5-2 cm. 
long, arising from about the same point, slender, about I mm. 
thick, lepidote. Calyx very small, long-pilose-ciliate. Corolla 
sweet-scented, greenish-white or yellowish, narrowly funnel- 
shaped, about 4.5-5 cm. long, lepidote all over the outside ; 
tube 3 cm. long, slightly pubescent towards the base outside ; 
lobes 5, ovate-rounded, about 2 cm. long and broad. Stamens 
10, slightly exserted ; filaments white-villous in the lower part ; 
anthers 4-5 mm. long. Disk fleshy, lobulate. Ovary 6-celled, 
oblong, densely lepidote; style early exserted, 4 cm. long, 
sparingly lepidote i in the lower half, crowned by a stigma about 
3 mm. in diameter. 
SouTH-WeEst Burma. Mt. Victoria, Lady Wheeler Cuffe 
(originally described from a plant grown in the Glasnevin 
Botanic Gardens, Dublin). 
38. Rhododendron pachypodum, Balf. f. et W. W. Smith in 
Notes, Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. ix. 254 (1916). 
A shrub 1.5 m. high ; older branchlets covered with smooth 
grey bark; one-year-old branchlets reddish-brown, lepidote ; 
young branchlets clothed towards the base with the briefly 
persistent scale leaves, densely lepidote ; axillary buds probably 
_ fairly well advanced at the time of flowering, the scales ovate 
acuminate, lepidote outside, keeled, the inner ones fringed with 
soft white hairs. Leaves oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 
long and obtusely triangular-acuminate at the apex, gradually 
narrowed to the base, up to Io cm. long and 3.5 cm. broad, 
rigidly coriaceous, sparingly lepidote above or at length glabrous, 
reticulate, very densely lepidote and glaucous beneath, the 
scales rather small and about half their own diameter apart, 
reddish-brown, the epidermis between the scales densely papil- 
lous; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, straw- 
coloured and lepidote, thick and broad towards the base ; 
lateral nerves slender and distinct below, a little flexuous, 
about 6-7 on each side of the midrib; petiole 0.5—1 cm. long, 
lepidote, grooved above, occasionally with a few weak hairs 
on each side when young. Inflorescence about 3-flowered or 
less ; pedicels about I cm. long, stout, wrinkled and densely 
lepidote. Calyx oblique, with 5 more or less triangular lobes 
about 2 mm. long, lepidote outside, and fringed with hairs. 
Corolla yellow (Forrest), all over the outside, about 3-5 cm. 
long; tube minutely pubescent towards the base outside ; 
