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dark cup of the calyx. Calyx conspicuous crimson cup-shaped 
about 6 mm. long glabrous fleshy 5-lobed; lobes about twice 
length of cup subequal rounded as much as 7 mm. broad entire 
or slightly denticulate glabrous. Corolla tubular-campanulate 
about 6 cm. long fleshy deep crimson with many dark oblong 
spots on posterior three petals and a darker almost median 
blotch on middle one glabrous inside and outside ; tube at the 
base 5-pouched retuse, pouches dark crimson inside separated 
by 5 imperfect interpetaline folds, expanding above into a broad 
5-lobed limb; lobes rounded emarginate crenulate about 1.5 
cm. long 2:5 cm. broad. Stamens 10 unequal shorter than 
corolla, longest about 4 cm. long reaching to base of corolla- 
lobes with dark anther about 3 mm. long, shortest about 2 cm. 
long with anther about 2 mm.; filaments pale yellow (?) widened 
to base glabrous. Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum about equal to 
or a little shorter than corolla longer than stamens ; ovary about 
5 mm. long conoid truncate grooved glabrous ; style glabrous 
slightly expanded at apex below the narrow lobulate stigma. 
Capsule cylindric slightly curved about 2 cm. long, 7 mm. in 
diameter glabrous slightly glaucous more or less encircled by 
the reddened enlarged somewhat hardened persistent calyx 
dehiscing from apex by 5 valves. Seeds pale brown flattened 
striate oblong about 3 mm. long winged and with a crest at 
each end. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° 20’ N. Alt. 
10,000-11,000 ft. Open rhododendron scrub. Shrub of 4-6 ft. 
Flowers deep crimson fleshy. G. Forrest. No. 15,767. June 
1917. 
: pest Without precise locality. Duplicate in fruit. 
G. Forrest. No. 16,037. Nov. 1917. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° 30’ N. Alt. 
10,000-11,000 ft. Duplicate of 1917. G. Forrest. No. 17,703. 
W. Yunnan. Without precise locality. Duplicate in fruit. 
G. Forrest. No. 17,729. Oct. 1918. 
A splendid plant of the Thomsoni series. Forrest obtained 
abundance of seed and the plant will be therefore soon 
in cultivation. Under Rh. eclecteum, Balf. f. et Forrest 
(see p. 108), which is the nearest ally of our species, I have 
pointed out that Rh. Meddianum may be regarded as a 
southern representative of the phylum which appears in the 
north as Rh. eclectewm. First observation is apt to lead to the 
opinion that the two species are more alike than they really 
are, and this because in both the upper surface of the some- 
what similarly shaped foliage-leaves is clad with a grey pellicle 
of wax and this catches the eye at once. The differences 
