THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
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78 FLVULCRINSON 
ber 1904, C. C. Hosseus, 201 ; 4500-5500 ft., epiphytic, growing 
into a spreading shrub about 12 ft. high, common in evergreen 
jungle near the top of Doi Sootep, 2nd January Igog, A. F. G. 
Kerr, 512; fr. r4th April 1909, A. F. G. Kerr, 512 
ododendron Veitchianum is a fine species inhabiting the 
warmer parts of Burma and in Siam. It was first imported 
from Moulmain by the Veitchian firm of Exeter, after whom = 
was named by Hooker in the Botanical Magazine. The pla 
figured in the magazine was exhibited at the esd 
Society’s meeting in London on the 6th May 1857. There is 
no specimen of this particular plant in the dried collections 
at Kew. 
It is not always easy to distinguish R. Veitchianum from 
broad-leaved examples of R. formosum, Wall. The latter, how- 
ever, has nearly always some long hairs on the petioles, leaf 
margins, and on the one-year-old leafy shoots, characters whic 
appear to be lacking from R. Vettchianum; the latter too hasa 
much larger fruit than has R. formosum. Then R. Veitchianum 
seems confined to Central and Lower Burma and Siam, whilst 
R. formosum is so far known only from the Khasia Hills, 
Assam. 
35. Rhododendron Cubittii, Hutchinson, n. sp.* 
Habit ? One-year-old branchlets covered with pale almost 
elepidote bark, about 4 mm. thick ; young branchlets purplish- 
* Rhododendron Cubittiit, Hutchinson, sp. n affinis R. Vettchiano, Hook., 
sed ramulis junioribus et foliis et petiolis este eros, foliis elongato-oblongo- 
ellipticis differt. 
Ramuli annotini cortice a fere elepidoto obtecti, circiter 4 mm. crassi, 
juniores purpureo-brunnei, eee eo pilis rigidis pauc cis muniti ; gemmae 
foliiferae axillares sub anthesin jam elon inferiori- 
ovatis minute ciliolatis see inconspicue lepidotis, superioribus subspatulatis 
et tenuioribus basin versus pilis longis marginatis apicibus molliter et dense 
ciliolatis. Folia elongato-oblongo-elliptica, basi obtusa, ad apicem longe mucro- 
natum sensim attenuata, 1o-11 cm. longa, 3-3.5 cm. lata, rigide sed subtenuiter 
coriacea, juniora supra laxe lepidota, mox fere glabra et reticulata, infra glauca 
longus, in latere dorsali lepidotus, basin versus molliter pubescens ; lobi margine 
undulati, extra laxe lepidoti. Stamina to, corollae fere aequilonga ; filamenta 
inferne pubescentia ; antherae 5mm. longae. Ovarium 6-loculare, 6 mm. longum, 
in stylum abrupte contractum, dense lepidotum ; stylus staminibus leviter longior, 
in triente rit igh laxe lepidotus, stigmate disciformi lobula 
Capsula non 
