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A NEW CHINESE RHODODENDRON. 
By H. F. Hance, Pa.D., F.L.S. 
¢0*\ Ruopopenprox (Eurhododendron) subseries 3) Henry, sp. nov. 
Tig 12 pedale, ramulis cinereis novellis petiolisque pilis edie ag 
capitatis consitis, foliis coriaceis elliptico- lanceolatis basi s 
acutis apice breviter ge ny novellis supra subtusque al 
costam setosis margineque dense setoso-ciliatis maturis undique 
glaberrimis supra Tacidulie subtus pallidioribus haud lepidotis 
anastomosantibus utrinque modice elevatis 2 . longis 
pe. petiolo 8-7 lineali capitato-setoso 9-16 lin. latis, gem- 
oriferarum sicut foliigenarum squam is pluriseriatis 
ovis” pais ie sensim minoribus dense breviter albo- 
ciliatis, innovationibus dense piantlosd. pilosis inferne squamis 
oblongis distantibus 6-8 linealibus preditis, floribus quinis 
terminali-su anata lilacinis vel amoene roseis suaveolenti- 
scuntpaliacd lobis ones acutiusculis, staminum 10 dimidiam 
corollam adequan te um filamentis basi glanduloso-pubentibus 
superne glaberri ntheris obovoideis apice poris bini 
ovalibus dctisoentibti ovario oblongo dense fulvo-setoso 5-6- 
ears stylo glaberrimo breviter exserto, stigmate conspicue 
capitato indiviso 
Speciosam hanc arbusculam latera collium supra ccenobium 
buddhicum Fi-loi-tsz, ad angustias s Tsing-iin fluvu North River, 
provincie Cantonensis, venustissimis floribus abundanter ex- 
ornantem, d. 22 Martii 1881, invenit Rey. B. C. Henry, cui lubens 
seh (Herb. propr. no. 21638.) 
Through the liberality of M. Maximowicz, : possess authentic 
sitions of nearly all the species enumerated in his ‘Rho- 
dodendree Asie orientalis’; but the present ‘xtrondy hand- 
some plant does pie in my judgment, co ery near to 
any of those known to me. I age I have "soxteetly indicated 
its position in this ditioult genus, in the subseries containin 
R. Dalhovsia, Hook. fil., Lh. sissies, H 
Booth, &c., and which is nearly equivalent to Nuttall’s section 
Hin oe oh ok * and perhaps its closest affinity is rather with 
e Himalayan R. barbatum, Wall., than with any Chinese species 
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* Hook. Journ. Bot. y. 354 (1853). 
