THE MADDENI SERIES OF _,RHODODENDRON. 
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stone, the wife of Colonel Johnstone, Political Agent in Manipur 
in 1882. Judging from Sir G. Watt’s notes, the species must 
be extraordinarily variable. I have therefore described only 
that specimen (Watt, 6401) which corresponds with the col- 
lector’s coloured figure in the Kew collection. That there is. 
great variation is shown in Sir George’s field notes in the Edin- 
burgh Herbarium, which seem worth reproducing in detail. 
They are as follows :— 
G. Watt, No. 6401 (type): ‘‘ Sirhoifurar, 6-7500 ft., April 
11th, 1882; a largish bush, much branched; leaves oblong, 
mucronate on short petioles, which have long black hairs, 
under-surface coated with brown circular scales; leaf-buds 
long, scales with white ciliae; flower-buds round with scales 
also having white fringe; flowers large white with rose-purple 
flush along midrib of petals especially on outside, sweetly 
scented ; peduncles }-} in. long, scarlet with white spots ; 
- calyx reduced to a ring having a fringe of long white hairs ; 
corolla 2 in. long by 3 in diameter, wide gaping, upper and odd 
petal with a yellow mark at sinus on either side and in middle 
and within tube spotted orange-red into streaks; others all 
pure white with a purple flush on outside; style yellow, sub- 
glandularly spotted ; stigma corrugated.”’ 
Watt, No. 5961: “‘ On the grassy summit of Seripharai, 
10-11,000 ft., Jan. 17, 1882; a small bush much branched 
at its extremities; leaves elliptic when young covered with 
curious circular scales which on dehiscing leave brownish pits 
all over the under surface and petiole; when young also ciliate 
but when mature with hairs on petiole only about 2 in. long 
and on brow petiole } inch; flower-buds globular with broad 
ovate acuminate scales having a fringe of pure white hairs ; 
fruits 6-angled with only partial dehiscence, tubercled ; seeds 
sent to Kew Jan. 31st, 1882. 
G. Watt, No. 6213: “‘ Summit of Japvo, 10,000 ft., March 
gth, 1882; a small distorted plant, seems same as species 
collected on Shiruriphari; leaves dotted, petiole and margin 
with long straggling hairs.” 
G. Watt, No. 6402: ‘“ Sirohifurar, 6-7500 ft., April 11th, 
1882 ; same species as preceding only a yellowish-white variety 
with no trace of rose-pink and smaller less hairy leaves ; flowers 
quite yellow in bud whereas former are rose-coloured ; young 
leaves of both sweetly scented and pale moss green.” 
G. Watt, No. 6475: “Summit of Sirohifurar, 8000 ft., 
April r2th, 1882; not in flower at higher points, all in flower- 
bud ; flowering freely at 7000 feet along the margins of forests 
where grassy slopes commence; leaf-buds small, slim, erect, 
I inch long ; leaves large, ovate, erect, leaves in flowering plants 
