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beginning to develop at the time of flowering, the scales leathery 
and obtusely apiculate. Leaves obovate-oblanceolate or elliptic- 
obovate, narrowed to the base, obtusely triangular-acuminate 
at the apex, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, coriaceous, lepidote 
above when young, soon glabrescent and a little reticulate, 
glabrous below and lepidote, the scales rather unequal and from 
I-14 times their own diameter apart, rusty-brown, fringed with 
a narrow membranous collar, the epidermis closely papillous 
below ; midrib impressed above, prominent below, laxly lepi- 
dote; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
arcuate, slightly raised below ; petiole 0.5—-1 cm. long, closely 
lepidote, with a narrow groove on the upper side. Inflorescence 
up to 5-flowered, the pedicels arising from approximately the 
same level; flower-bearing buds ovoid, subacute, 2 cm. long, 
the scales broadly ovate or rounded, apiculate, leathery, closely 
lepidote outside and densely fringed with soft short hairs ; scars 
of the fallen bud-scales in about 8 rows, straw-coloured ; pedicels 
5-7 mm. long, lepidote. Calyx rather variable, unequally lobed, 
up to 2 mm. long, the lobes broad and frequently with a few 
(3 or 4) long slender hairs on the margin, lepidote outside 
especially towards the base. Corolla 6-7 cm. long, white inside, 
slightly tinged outside with green ; tube widely funnel-shaped, 
a little longer than the lobes, lepidote mainly on the dorsal 
(adaxial) side, often softly pubescent towards the base; lobes 
5, spreading, with strongly crinkled undulate margins, very 
sparingly scaly outside towards the middle. Stamens to, 
unequal, nearly twice as long as the corolla tube; filaments 
pubescent towards the base; anthers 4-5 mm. long. Ovary 
5-celled, densely lepidote ; style longer than the corolla, lepidote 
in the lower half, crowned by a deeply lobulate disk-like stigma. 
Capsule straight, 3 cm. long, about 1.3 cm. thick, rugose- 
lepidote. 
Burma. Central Burma: Tiddim, Chin Hills, 6000 ft., 
April 1916, V. H. T. Fields Clarke, 35 (Herb. Edinb.). Southern 
Shan States: Lakat Taung, Molye, 5000 ft., in open scrub 
forests, epiphytic, fls. white, 25th February 1910, W. A. 
Robertson, 130. Moolee-it, 7000 ft., 7-8 ft. high or more, some- 
times epiphytical on trees, Parish, 418, 419. Expedition to 
Nat-toung, Parish. Lower Burma: Mulegit and below Dawna 
Range, 6000 ft., fls. 27th January 1912 (seen also on the Ta-u 
plateau near the Lampa Chaung down to 2500 ft.), J. H. Lace, 
5632. Tenasserim: a shrub on rocks (never in ground) at 
6000 ft., epiphytic on tall tree, at 4ooo ft., fils. white, lower 
petal deep yellow, Col. Beddome, 105. Without definite 
locality, Lobb. - aye ee 2 
Stam. Doi Sootep, 4800-4920 ft., fls. white, t2th Decem- 
