HUvUTCHINSON—THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON, 35 
7 mm. broad, sparingly lepidote all over the outside but more 
densely so towards the base. Corolla white, scented (Cavalerie), 
tubular below, widely funnel-shaped from about 2 cm. above 
the base; tube 7 cm. long, 1 cm. diameter at the base, 6 cm. 
broad at the top when flattened out, rather densely lepidote 
outside with small fleshy scales ; lobes 5, broadly semicircular, 
about 3 cm. broad and 2 cm. long, slightly fringed with short 
hairs, scaly outside. Stamens 10, much shorter than the 
corolla tube, nearly equal; filaments rather densely woolly- 
hairy in the lower third of their length; anthers large, about 
8.5 mm. long. Ovary scaly, probably 5-celled (see capsule) ; 
style about as long as the corolla tube, 6 cm. long, rather densely 
scaly in the lower half, fairly stout, crowned by a large lobulate 
“fist-like’’ stigma about 6 mm. wide. Capsule 5-celled, with 
5 rounded ribs, curved, acuminate, about 4.5 cm. long, 1.3 cm. 
broad, rather closely lepidote with small fleshy scales, girt at 
the base by the persistent rigidly chartaceous strongly striate 
calyx lobes. 
KweEicuHow. Pin-Fa: Yuin-Ou-chau, “fl. blanches, odo- 
rantes,”’ 3rd June to 15th July 1902, J. Cavalerie, 54 (Herb. 
Edinb.). 
The presence of this species, apparently a very beautiful 
one, and perhaps hardy, in Kweichow is interesting, in that it 
extends the distribution of the Maddeni series very much 
farther eastward, 
I have drawn up the above description from an imperfect 
specimen (see fig. 5) in the Edinburgh Herbarium. This 
material consists of two fragmentary leaves, one nearly whole, 
and a single but perfect flower, and a fine capsule. The capsule 
is remarkable in being curved, strongly ribbed, and tipped by 
the persistent base of the style, whilst at the base it is girt by 
the somewhat toughened persistent calyx lobes which become 
strongly striate. 
R. liliiflorum is undoubtedly a close ally of R. excellens, 
Hemsl. and Wils., both of which would be very desirable for 
cultivation, as they are about the finest of the series and late 
flowering. 
10. Rhododendron rhabdotum, Balf. f. et Cooper in Notes, 
Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. x. 141 (1917). 
A tree 4 m. high; one-year-old branchlets rather slender, 
reddish-brown, very sparingly scaly, with a few rather long 
setose hairs towards the apex, the young branchlets densely 
scaly and bristly with hairs ; axillary leaf-buds very small 
(about 1.5 mm. in diameter) and globose at the time of flowering, 
