Three Indo-Burmese Rhododendrons. 
BY 
‘ys FR - LAGE) 
Late Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma, 
AND 
W. W. SMITH, M.A., 
Assistant Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
_ With Plates CKXXIX-CXLI. 
ADDITIONS to the Rhododendron Flora of the Indo-Burmese 
Empire have been scanty indeed since the days of Hooker and 
Clarke. The study of the East Himalayan types was pursued 
with such thoroughness and tenacity by Hooker that no addi- 
tions have been made in that area to the number of species 
found and described for the most part by him in the middle 
of last century. The three species of which descriptions are 
given below were not all previously unknown—two were very 
imperfectly known, and the third is new. The most interesting 
of the three is perhaps R. Parishii, C. B. Clarke, of which a 
brief description was given by Clarke in the Flora of British 
India, vol. ili, p. 475. Clarke, however, had neither flowers nor 
fruit. A recent collection, made in 1912 from the same mountain 
on which Parish collected the original specimens, fortunately 
contains both flowers and fruit, so that a full description has 
been made possible. R. Elliottii, Watt mss., is from Manipur, 
and has already been briefly commented upon by Brandis in 
his Indian Trees, p. 410, where he takes up Watt’s manu- 
script name and gives a short diagnosis in English. R. Kyawt, 
Lace et W. W. Sm., is a distinct new species allied to R. Elliottiz, 
Watt mss., and was discovered by a young Burmese forest 
officer. Its discovery and its close affinity to R. Elliottii, Watt 
mss., have necessitated a full description of the latter species. 
Rhododendron Parishii, C. B. Clarke, descr. ampl. J. H. Lace. 
Plate CKXXIX. 
Species ex affinitate R. fulgentis, Hook. f. sed foliis mox 
glabris floribus multo tenuioribus fructu tomentoso inter alia 
differt 
[Notes, R.B.G., Edin., No. XXXVIII, Sept. 1914.] 
