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membranous calyx and a style puberulous at the base. The 
calyx-character takes it more to the Souliei section as does the 
leaf-form but then in the Souliei series there is a stead 
style. 
Rhododendron stictophyllum,* Balf. f.+ 
A dwarf small-leaved shrub with very many thin short curved 
branches intricately intermingled. Branches a year old about 
I mm. in diameter epilose completely enclosed by a lepidote 
indumentum, the scales large closely pressed wee one another 
to form a rough pitted surface each with a broad umbo and 
equally broad fringe, some of them dark red sere infiltration by 
dark red secretion, others pale green with at most a yellow 
annulus, all blackening on the branches as these olden giving 
them a warted surface. Foliage-buds ovoid minute covered by 
few scale-leaves ; outermost scale-leaves crustaceous linear ob- 
tuse about 2 mm. long epilose rufously lepidote ; intermediate 
broadly ovate with thinner white ciliate margin rufous-lepidote 
outside silky towards the top inside ; innermost pair convolute 
membranaceous cucullate straw- coloured about 3 mm. long 
Leaves petiolate as much as I cm. long, 
leathery oblong-oval about 8 mm. long 3 mm. broad slightly 
OTLHTO*, S —in allusion to the under lent-surtace. 
pott 
T Rhododendron sic hylan, Balf. f 
i ivisi Ramuli annotini circ. 1 mm. diam. Squamis 
(costa media apr hgh oom squamis peltatis bicoloratis (fuscis et pallidioribus) 
ontiguis nunc hic et illic paullo discontiguis vestita ; 
Flores 1~2 2ad apicem 
exteri 
lepidotae et puberulae ciliatae intus sericeae, in em 
oblongae circ. 5 mm. longae 4 mm. latae cucullatae truncatae et emargina 
vertice lanato-ciliatae extus lepido otae et pu ae. Calyx minutus carnosulus 
i i lobi 5 minutissim1 
0.5 m 
dentiformes vel rotund Corolla violacea ? cir onga extus sparsim 
lepidota ep : a ulatus circ. 2 longus fauce puberulo in 
limbum patentem 5-lobatum ampliatus ; lobi rotundati coat circ. 5 mm. 
longiora et 
i na 1o corolla breviora inaeq alternatim long 
longi 4 mm. lati. neers. 
cylindrico-conoi aoa truncatum sulcatum 
purpureus glaber. Capsula pallide brunnea extus lepidota oblonga circ. 4 mm. 
longa 1. 75 mm. lata. 
