36 HuTCHINSON —THE MADDENI SERIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
the scales apparently not lepidote. Leaves fairly large, obovate- 
oblong-elliptic, slightly narrowed to an obtuse or subacute 
base, rounded to a small blunt callous tip, 9-14 cm. long, 3-4.8 
cm. broad, rather thinly coriaceous, glabrous and dull green 
above when mature (at first rather densely scaly), laxly reticu- 
late, glaucous-green below and lepidote, the scales about 3 sizes 
and always more than their own diameter apart, rather fleshy 
in the middle with a narrow membranous fringe, the epidermis 
between the scales densely papillous, the papillae pale coloured 
and rod-like; midrib slightly raised above, very prominent 
and slightly scaly below, about 2.25 mm. broad at the base, 
gradually tapered to the apex; lateral nerves about g—Io on 
each side of the midrib, like the veins slightly raised and distinct 
on the upper surfaces, prominent but slender and flexuous 
on the lower surface, straw-coloured, diverging from the midrib 
at an angle of about 60°, arcuate, rather faintly looped towards 
the margin; secondary nerves few and rather faint ; petioles 
1.5 cm. long, about 3 mm. thick at the base, subterete, apparently 
not grooved on the upper side, slightly scaly when mature, 
setose on the edges and densely scaly when young. Inflorescence 
probably very few-flowered (only 3 flowers seen), the pedicels 
arising from the same level; scars of the fallen bud-scales 
rather broadly transversely ‘linear, contiguous, pale straw- 
coloured ; pedicels 1.7 cm. long, 2.5 mm. thick, rather densely 
scaly and softly pubescent. Calyx 1 cm. long, 5-lobed to nearly 
the base, scaly outside only at the base, the lobes oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, about 9 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad, mem- 
branous, softly and thinly pubescent about the middle outside, 
very finely and inconspicuously ciliate around the apex, glabrous 
within, striate. Corolla cream-coloured with red lines down 
the back of the lobes, gradually funnel-shaped from the base, 
glabrous outside; tube 8 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter 
at the base, nearly 8 cm. wide at the throat when spread out ; 
lobes 5, with rather shallow sinus between, about 1.5 cm. long 
and about 3.5 cm. broad, not at all emarginate. Stamens Io, 
slightly longer than the corolla tube; filaments slender, 
woolly-pubescent in their lowermost third; anthers large, 
I-1.2 cm. long. Ovary 5-celled, conical, 1 cm. long, gradually 
narrowed into the style, densely covered with overlapping 
scales; style slightly longer than the corolla, about ro cm. 
long, rather slender, laxly scaly in the lower half, crowned 
with a lobulate stigma about 5 mm. broad. Capsule not 
known. 
BuuTan. Punakka, 8000 ft., on dry rocky faces, tree 12 ft., 
fils. 29th a 1915, R. = Cooper, 3937. 
