26 HutTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON, 
nearly as long as the corolla, lepidote close up to the broad 
lobulate stigma. 
Buutan. Chapcha Timpu, 8500 ft., bush 3 ft. high on hill 
top, fis. white, 8th July 1914, R. E. Cooper, 1454 (Herb. Edinb.). 
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Fic. 2.—Rhododendron polyandrum, Hutchinson, n. sp. Nat. size. 
5. Rhododendron manipurense, Balf. f. et Watt, in Notes, 
Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. x. 119 (1917). R. Maddeni, var. 
obtusifolium, Hutchinson in Bot. Mag. t. 8212 (1908). 
A much-branched tortuous tree or shrub; young branchlets 
lepidote with imbricate scales, girt at the base by the persistent 
crowded outer scales of the leaf-buds, sometimes a few of the 
inner bud-scales also persisting ; one-year-old branchlets about 
