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DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 281 
Forest developing into a small trée literally covered with blossom. 
Flowers of a cherry-crimson so vivid that the effect is blood- 
scarlet from a little distance and in its fall the paths are crimson. 
Farrer No. 1518. April 23, 1920. 
A fine new species of the Burmese Rain Forest without preten- 
sion to hardiness. The Irroratum Series is not one that will en- 
rich to any extent the open garden. 
}o0 Rhododendron oulotrichum, Balf. f. et Forrest. 
Fruticulus curviramosus vix 1 m. altus. Rami hornotini circ. 1 
mm. diam. setulis longis contortis dense setulosi sparsim lepidoti, 
annotini rubro-grisei verruculosi esetulosi. Folia petiolata de- 
cidua post flores expansa ad 3.5 cm. longa; lamina papyracea 
obongo-elliptica vel obovata ad 3 cm. longa 1.7 cm. lata, apice 
rotundata tuberculato-mucronulata, margine plana pilis crispis 
plus minusve detersilibus ciliata, basi obtusa vel attenuata ; supra 
olivacea opaca glabra (costa media erubescente sparsim puberula 
excepta) ; subtus pallidior setulis contortis vestita et squamis dis- 
tantibus (ultra 1 mm.) conspersa, costa media dense setulosa 
sparsim lepidota, venis primariis utrinsecus ad 8 paullo promin- 
ulis; petiolus circ. 5 mm. longus ut rami juveniles vestitus. 
Umbellae 2-3-florae ; pedicelli ad 1.5 cm. longi pilis cristatis in- 
tertextis dense vestiti, sparsim lepidoti. Calyx circ. 6 mm. 
longus 5-partitus pilis setulosis crispatis barbatus ; lobi membran- 
acei 4 mm. longi late triangulares acuti extus ubique setulis 
crispatis vestiti. Corolla flava maculata infundibuliformi-cam- 
panulata circ. 2 cm. longa, extus squamis parvis lepidota epil- 
osa ; tubus brevis circ. 6 mm. longus intus puberulus ; lobi rotun- 
dati circ. 1.4mm.diam. Stamina ro corolla breviora inaequalia, 
longiora antica circ. 1.5 cm. longa filamentis basim versus puber- 
ulis, breviora postica cire. 1.2 em. longa filamentis supra basim 
Aoccoso-villosis. Discus glaber. Gynaeceum corolla paullo 
previus circ. 1.7 cm. longum ; ovarium conoideum truncatum sul- 
catum lepidotum cire. 4 mm. longum; stylus clavatus defiexus 
glaber circ. 1.3 cm. longus stamina paullo superans; stigma 
latum lobulatum. Species Seriei Trichocladi. 
Western Yunnan: Shweli-Salween divide. Western flank. 
Lat. 25° 20’ N. Alt. 10,000 ft. Open dry pasture on the mar- 
gins of forests. Shrub of 2-4 ft. In fruit. Forrest No. 8905. 
Aug. 1912. 
Western Yunnan : N’Maikha-Salween divide. Lat. 26° 25’ N. 
Alt. 10,000 ft. Margins of cane brakes and on cliffs. Shrub of 
22% ft. Flowers yellow. Forrest No. 18,010. June ‘1919. 
N.E Upper Burma: Hpimaw Pass.- Alt. 10,500 ft. Rocky 
lly on Burmese side of Hpimaw Pass. Probably = Farrer 876 
jn further development. Farrer No. 1023. June 19, 1919. 
