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a few glands and densely lanate, glabrous elsewhere, only 
slightly expanding into a slightly discoid lobulate sti igma. 
Specimens which I have seen of the species are :— 
Yunnan. In collibus ad collum Yan-tze-hay supra Lan- 
kong. Alt. 3200 m. Delavay. No. 2213. ist June 1886. 
This is the type-number of Franchet’s description. 
Yunnan. Col de Yan-tze-hay (Lankong) a 3200 m. d’altit. 
Arbrisseau ou arbre de 5 a 6 métres lisiére des bois. Fs. roses 
ou a peu prés blanches. Delavay. 25 mai 1887. 
Yunnan. Lisiére des bois au col de Yan-tze-hay au dessus 
de Mo-so-yn entre 3200 et 3500 m. d’altit. Arbrisseau ou petit 
arbre. Fls. roses. Delavay le 7 juin 1888, id. le 8 aout 1888. 
Yunnan. Sungkwei-Langkiung divide, eastern slope. Alt. 
II,000-12,000 ft. Lat. 26° N. Forrest. No. 506. Dec. 1904. 
Yunnan. Mountains in the N.E: of the Yangtze bend. On 
open pasture. Alt. 11,000 ft. Lat. 27° 45’ N. Shrub of 8—r0. 
ft. In fruit. Forrest. No. 10,834. Aug. 1913. 
Yunnan. Sungkwei Pass. In and on the margins of pine 
forests. Alt. 10,000-12,000 ft. Lat. 26° N. Shrub of 6~r10 
Flowers white with crimson markings flushed rose exterior, 
fragrant. Forrest. 15th May 1917. 
Rhododendron sinolepidotum, Balf. f. 
Rh. lepidotum, Hook. f., var. eleagnoides, Franch. (non Hook. 
f.), in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxiii (1886), 234. 
Suffrutex aromaticus humilis ad 4.5 dm. altus ye vnsee 
ramosissimus. Ramuli tenues, hornotini circ. 
flavido-virides squamis laxis peltatis stipitatis ex umbone ab 
institaque latiore margine irregulari cincta constructis obtecti, | 
annotini rufi squamarum vestigiis notatt, deinde grisei decorti- 
cantes. Alabastrorum oblongorum parvorum perulae paucae 
saepe 2 fuscae lepidotae folia convoluta tegentes. Folia bees 
petiolata ad 2.2 cm. longa autumno promoto laete erubescentia ; 
lamina coriacea ad 2 cm. longa 1 cm. lata oblonga vel elliptico- 
oblonga apice obtusa vel acutiuscula mucronulata margine 
leviter revoluta nunc subasperata basi obtusa, supra viridis 
opaca squamis contiguis: peltatis siccis superficialibus sordide 
albidis (nunc umbone annulatim subnitente) furfuracea, subtus 
squamis contiguis vel vix contiguis subimpressis partim brunneo- 
coloratis partim subviridibus nunc punctulatis obtecta, costa 
media supra sulcata infra elevata venarum reti caeteroquin 
occulto ; petiolus brevis circ. 2 mm. longus lepidotus. Flores 1-3 
perspicue pedunculati ad apices ramorum dispositi ; bracteae 
crustaceo-coriaceae helvenaceae cucullatae carinatae extus rubi- 
ginoso-lepidotae intus puberulae, extimae rotundatae circ. 5 mm. 
