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lobes 5, oblong-rounded, about 1.5 cm. long. Stamens 10, 
inclided ; filaments pubescent in the lower half ; anthers 4 mm. 
long. Ovary 6-celled, densely lepidote; style about 2.5 cm. 
long, at length about 5 cm. long in nearly mature fruit, lepidote 
in its lower 3 crowned by a fist-like lobulate stigma. Capsule 
oblique at the base, 2 cm. long, 6-ribbed, densely covered with 
golden scales. 
YUNNAN. Western flank of the Tali Range, lat. 
25° 40’ N., open stony pasture and amongst scrub, go00—10,000 
ft.; shrub 2-5 ft., in fruit August 1913, G. Forrest, 11547 
(Herb. Edinb.). Tali Range, side valleys; lat. 25° 40’ N., in 
open scrub, 10,000 ft., shrub 3-4 ft., fls. yellow, August I914, 
G. Forrest, 13512 (Herb. Edinb.). 
This is a yellow-flowered species very close indeed to my 
R. carneum, which has flesh-coloured flowers. The calyx lobes 
of R. cayneum are perhaps much more rounded than in R. 
pachypodum ; = material of both species is, however, as yet 
very inadequat 
39. Rhododendron iteaphyllum, Hutchinson, n. sp.*_ R. for- 
mosum, var. salicifolium, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. iti. 473 (1882), non R. salictfolium, Becc. (1878). 
An erect shrub up to 2 m. high; branchlets rather densely 
leafy, the one-year-old ones rather densely lepidote and sparingly 
setose-pilose. Leaves linear or linear-oblanceo narro pee 
to an acute base, subacutely triangular at the apex, ~9 ¢ 
long, 0.7-1.5 cm. broad, chartaceous, —— ciliate wid 
* Rhododendron tteaphylium, Hutchinson, sp. nov. ; affinis R. i Wall., 
sed foliis linearibus vel lineari-oblanceolatis 0.7—1.5 cm. latis 
altus ; ramuli dense foliati, naam pon lepidoti 
linearia vel lineari-lanceolata, ad basin acutum 
angustata, apice subacute ee 5-9 cm. longa, o -7-1.5 cm lata, chartacea, 
lio 
alati, ciliati, supra profunde a lepidoti. 
umbellatim circiter 3-flora; squamae gemmarum floriferarum apicem versus 
extra molliter et breviter Steiceatie. a ‘pilis brevibus margi : 
pedicelli circiter 6 mm. longi, subdense lepido Calyx minimus, elobatus, 
circiter 0.5 mm. longus, extra Ss Fe Snare. e basi late Se as ce. 
circiter 5-6 cm. longa, one ubique parce lepidota; tubus circiter 3.5 
; lobi 5, rotundati, medium versus lepidoti. Salar 
nta i 
longae. Ovarium 6-loculare, dense lepidotum ; ; stylus in dimidio inferiore parce 
lepidotus, corollam paullo superans stigmate magno lobulato coronatus. 
Capsula recta, 1.6 cm. longa, axi centrali st basi persistente coronato. Semina 
brunnea, 2 mm. longa, apice caudata. 
