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apiculate, coriaceous, with two or three lines of small golden 
scales down the back, fringed with soft white hairs. Leaves 
oblanceolate or obovate-oblanceolate, rarely elliptic, shortly 
and rather abruptly obtusely acuminate, 3.5-9 cm. long, 1.3- 
3-3 cm. broad, rigidly coriaceous, when young rather densely 
Fic. 9.—Rhododendron supranubium, Hutchinson, n. sp. Nat. size. 
scaly above and ciliate, quite glabrous and slightly shining 
when mature, glaucous below and rather densely lepidote, the 
scales a golden brown and somewhat unequal in size and less 
than their own diameter apart, the epidermis between the 
scales densely covered with milky-white rod-like papillae ; 
iole 0.5-1 cm. long, rather densely covered with small scales, 
frequently with a few bristles on each side, with a fairly wide 
groove on the upper side. Inflorescence up to 3-flowered, often 
