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and a few oblong spots above it glabrous outside and inside, 
slightly pouched at base expanding into an open 5-lobed 
limb ; lobes rounded emarginate about 7 mm. long and 1.4 cm. 
broad. Stamens ro unequal all shorter than corolla and gynae- 
ceum, longest about 2.8 cm. long with anther 2.5 mm. long, 
shortest about 1.8 cm. long with anther 2 mm. long; filaments 
broad minutely puberulous at base the hairs no more than vesi- 
cular spheres. Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum about 3 cm. long a 
little shorter than corolla and longer than stamens ; ovary long 
thin cylindric about 6.5 mm. long slightly grooved truncate 
glabrous; style glabrous stout expanding below the discoid 
lobulate stigma to which it supplies an encircling lip. 
West N.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 
12’N. Alt. 12,000-13,000 ft. In pine and rhododendron forest. 
Shrub of 10-15 ft. Flowers white faintly flushed rose, with 
crimson markings and a blotch of same shade at base. G. 
Forrest. No. 16,366. March 1918. 
A species of the group of large-leaved Rhododendrons with 
woolly persistent indumentum in which the calyx is very small, 
the corolla more or less funnel-shaped with a basal blotch and 
spots and the ovary and style glabrous. It is distinguished by 
the branched tree-like form of the hairs of the indumentum with 
the branches curled and tendril-like forming a slightly honey- 
combed undersurface to the leaf. 
Rhododendron eclecteum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.+ (Thomsoni.) 
Shrub as much as 2.5 m. high with stout straight branches. 
Branches of the year stiff purple with a glaucous bloom and 
glandular, the glands red ovoid on conspicuous stalks, 2.3 mm. 
in diameter, year old branches as much as 6 mm. in diameter 
yellowish becoming ash-grey punctulate with the bases of fallen 
glands. Foliage-buds are nest buds red ovoid short pointed ; 
* éxjextéoc, to be chosen out—as a plant worthy of cultivation. 
+ Rhododendron eclecteum, Balf. f. et Forrest -—Frutex ad 2.5 m.altus. Rami 
hornotini stricti glauco-purpurei glandulosi, annotini ad 6 mm. diam. punctulati, 
petiolata 
mucronata, margine late cartilaginea saepe purpurea, basi cordulata; supra 
grisea cerae pellicula vestita ; subtus subfulva glaberrima costa media venisque 
primariis plus minusve rubidis; petiolus ad 2 cm. longus ruber glaberrimus. 
Flores in racemo-umbellam circ. 12-floram dispositi, rhachi glauco-purpurea 
d x cm. longus cupularis ultra medium eg extus glaber; lobi ovati vel 
1 cm. longi 2 cm i tamina corolla breviora; filamenta glabra. Discus 
glaber. Gynaeceum corollam subaequans; ovarium ovoideum truncatum sul- 
tum dense glandulosum ; stylus r. Capsula cylindrica circ. 2 c 
7 mm. diam. glandulosa. Semina pallida elongata circ. 3 mm. longa .5 mm. lata. 
