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drooping, 2-4 on extremities of twigs; young leaves pale 
moss green, soft, sweetly scented, hairy when a little older, 
horizontal with hairs on margin and petiole, also extremity of 
twig black-woolly.”’ 
G. Watt, No. 6701: ‘‘ Keyang, 3rd Peak N.E. of Ching Sow, 
gooo ft., April 22nd, 1882; common on summit, pink and 
white varieties both.” 
. Watt, No. 6881: “ Japvo, 9800 ft., May 15th, 1882; 2 
small bush ; leaves when young hairy put glabrous when old 
flowers white, yellow dotted on outside, side gaping, sweetly 
scented ; calyx a small green ring; ? same as Sirohifurar plant ; 
flowers smaller, more gaping, always white, leaves quite glabrous 
except when young and calyx glabrous ; if same, it is the yellow 
variety which I now regard as worthy of a name.’ 
33. Rhododendron inaequale, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
R. formosum, var. inaequalis, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. iii. 473 (1882). 
A shrub 1-2 m. high; branches more or less umbellate, the 
older ones stout, covered with grey bark ; one-year-old branch- 
lets spatingly. lepidote, sometimes also a little strigose towards 
; young branchlets lepidote and sparingly strigose- 
pubescent ; axillary leaf-bearing buds very small, and quite 
dormant at the time of flowering. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic- 
oblanceolate, acuminate to an obtuse mucronate apex, acute 
or subacute at the base, 6-12 cm. long, 1.5—4 cm. broad, rather 
rigidly coriaceous, at first a little scaly on the upper surface, 
soon becoming quite glabrous and reticulate, lepidote below, 
the scales slightly unequal in size and 2-3 ‘times their own 
diameter apart, the epidermis between the scales fairly densely 
papillous ; midrib impressed above, prominent below, minutely 
lepidote; lateral nerves about 6-8 on each side of the midrib, 
* Rhododendron inaequale, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; affinis R. formoso, Waill., 
capsula longiore basi valde obliqua differt 
Frutex 1-2 m. altus; rami plus minusve ¢ umbellati, vetustiores robusti, cortice 
erent obtecti, an notini parce sarees ersten etiam apic 
bosae, c 
Spidnlatis coriaceis extra medium versus lepidotis, pilis mollibus albis marginatae ; 
