HUTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 27 
6 mm. in diameter, dark red or greyish-brown, lepidote with 
brownish scales, the older branches becoming glabrous ; axillary 
leaf-bearing buds still dormant and very small at the time of 
flowering, ovoid-globose, densely lepidote outside ; outer perule 
of the terminal leaf-bearing buds more or less leaf-like, and 
gradually decreasing in size and becoming scale-like. Leaves 
elliptic or oblong-elliptic, occasionally obovate or rarely one or 
two of the lower ones suborbicular, rounded at the base, more 
or less rounded to an obtuse mucronate apex, up to 18 cm. long 
and 8 cm. broad, very thick and coriaceous, shining and im- 
pressed-reticulate on the upper surface, very densely lepidote 
below, the scales contiguous or nearly so and variable in size 
from larger blacker scattered ones to small brown ones, the 
epidermis conspicuously papillous; midrib slightly sulcate 
above, very prominent beneath and lepidote; lateral nerves 
about ro on each side of the midrib and diverging from it ata 
wide angle, slightly prominent below ; petiole stout, up to 3 cm. 
long, very finely grooved on the upper side, densely lepidote. 
Inflorescence 4—5-flowered, the pedicels arising from about the 
same level; flower-bearing buds large, ovoid, viscid, the outer 
scales very thick and leathery and lepidote towards the middle ; 
pedicels very stout, about I cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, lepidote. 
Calyx about 1.5 cm. long, 5-lobed to near the base ; lower basal 
portion lepidote outside ; lobes more or less oblong, membranous, 
at first lepidote outside but soon glabrescent, the posterior and 
lateral ones a little shorter and broader than the others. Corolla 
large and pure white, up to Io cm. long; tube rather narrowly 
funnel-shaped, longer than the lobes, about 6.5 cm. long, lepidote 
all over the outside; lobes.5, rounded, about 3 cm. broad, 
lepidote outside mainly towards the middle. Stamens 17-20, 
exserted ; filaments pubescent in the lower half; anthers 
5 mm. long. Ovary 12-celled, about 8 mm. long, densely 
lepidote ; style nearly as long as the corolla, lepidote nearly 
to the apex, crowned by a very large lobulate disk-like 
stigma. Capsule 2-4 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. thick, lepidote, 
the central axis capped by the lower persistent portion of 
the style. 
Manipur. Naga Hills: Japvo Mountain, 8000—10,000 ft., 
fr., 9th March 1882, G. Watt, 6461; 10,000 ft., fls. 22nd July 
1882, Dr W. Coury in Herb. G. Watt, 7333. Japvo, 9900 ft., 
fr., 25th October 1885, C. B. Clarke, 41348. Sirohifurar, 
8000 ft., a common Rhododendron on the smaller peak, fr., 
12th April 1882, G. Watt, 6461. Ching Sow, 8000-8500 ft., 
old fr., 14th to 16th April 1882, G. Watt, 6512, 6513. Keyang 
and the ranges approaching Sarameti into Burma, 9500 ft., 
in bud 22nd April 1882, G. Watt, 6703 (Herb. Kew). 
