76 HUTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
diverging from it at an angle of 45°-65°, slender and slightly 
prominent on the lower surface; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long, 
punctate-lepidote, grooved on the upper surface. Inflorescence 
about 6-flowered, the pedicels arising from approximately. the 
same level; flower-bearing buds ovoid-globose, about 2 cm. 
long, the scales broadly rounded, apiculate, leathery, lepidote 
towards the middle outside and fringed with short soft white 
hairs; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, lepidote. Calyx very oblique, 
saucer-shaped, about 2 mm. long, undulately lobed, lepidote 
outside. Corolla seen only in a withered condition, laxly scaly 
all over the outside. Stamens probably 10; filaments rather 
densely pubescent in the lower third; anthers 2.5 mm. long. 
Ovary 6-celled, oblique, about 1 cm. long, ribbed, closely lepi- 
dote; style very long, persistent in fruit, 7-8 cm. long, laxly 
lepidote in the lower half, crowned by a deeply rugose-lobulate 
stigma. Capsule 6-valved, very oblique, about 3 cm. long, 
densely lepidote, the style persisting for some time on the 
central axis. : 
AssAM. Khasia Hills; summit of Kollong Rock, 1835, 
Griffith, 978. Kollong Rock, 5000 ft., 8th July, 23rd October 
1850, fr., J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson. Kollong, 6000 ft., 
shrub 3 ft., 23rd August 1885, fr., C. B. Clarke, 40025. Kollong, 
5600 ft., 24th May 1886, bush 6 ft., withered fls. and young 
fr., C. B. Clarke, 439854. Shillong, 4000 ft., 28th July 1886, 
fr., C. B. Clarke, 44324. 
For remarks on the habitat of this species see p. 15. 
34. Rhododendron Veitchianum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4992 
(1857); Millais, Rhododendrons, 257 (1917). R. formosum, 
Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burma, ii. 94 (1877), non Wall. R. 
formosum, var. Veitchianum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
1877, il. 216; Hosseus in Beihefte Bot. Centralbl. xxvii. 
505 (1910). 
__ Ashrub 2.75 m. high or more growing on rocks or epiphytic 
on trees; older branches covered with loose crustaceous bark ; 
one-year-old branchlets finely lepidote, apparently not setose ; 
axillary leaf-bearing buds very small and still dormant or just 
pedicelli 1-1.5 cm. longi, lepidoti. Calyx valde obliquus, patelliformis, circiter 
2 mm. longus, undulate lobatus, extra lepidotus. Covolla in statu marcido 
tantum visa, extra ubique laxe lepidota. Stamina probabiliter ro; filamenta in 
triente inferiore subdense pubescentia ; antherae 2.5 mm. longae. Ovarium 6- 
loculare, obliquum, circiter 1 cm. longum, costatum, crebre lepidotum; stylus 
longissimus, in fructu persistens, 7-8 cm. longus, in dimidio inferiore lepidotus, 
stigmate profunde rugoso-lobulato coronatus. Capsula valde obliqua, circiter 
3 cm. longa, dense lepidota, axe centrali-stylo persistente ad breve tempus 
coronato. 
