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others. Stamens glabrous. — aay 4 in. long. we sg con- 
siderably broader than the su of the style. Fruit 2-1 in 
long, perhaps pulpless. Peric aa Pebipatastieds thin, ladeiaibont, 
Dissepiment membranous, fragile; secondary septules none. 
Funioles of various length. Seeds closely packed, nearly oblique- 
ovate, }-4 in.long; in their dry state outside dull, brownish, 
slightly angular; testule of bony hardness in a median line 
inside, elevated. Embryo bent in an oblique-elliptic curvature, 
but, as well as the albumen, shrivelled in all these seeds avalahle at 
this occasion. 
Systematically this species stands nearest to T. Penangiana, but 
the leaves are much smaller, the flowers also of lesser size, the 
petals hardly merging beyond the sepals, the stamens less nume- 
rous, and although the fruit : very much smaller, yet the seeds are 
apart from all other waite congeners; B. & later, also 
Dyer, recording the number of ovules in each owe cell for Tern- 
ey 2 up to six, and that only as of rare occurrence. out- 
ard ed geri the Papuan plant reminds of the Brazilian Tf. 
aaneifole 
In Mr. H. O. Forbes’s collection (660), formed with so much 
difficulty near the Owen Stanley Ranges, is contained the same or 
a closely allied species, but here only a specimen, without fruit, 
with a solitary flower, is extant, in which the stamens are 
-five, 
The remarkable new species now described is dedicated to 
James Britten, ‘Esq., of the British Museum of Natural comnel 
who, very long in that important position, and since eleven years 
editor of the Journal of Botany, has rendered such extensive, tog 
ing, and onerous sérvices to botanical science. 
Rhododendron Macgregorie, sp. n. — Bra poems almost 
subtle-dotted. Pedicels rather longer than the flowers, nearl 
glabrous. Calyx rudimentary, somewhat patellar, lobeless. Cor- 
olla rather small, yellowish; the tube rather narrow, nearly or 
fully thrice shorter than the lobes, inside beset with minute hairlets, 
the lobes almost glabrous. Bey me ten, gi! surpassed by the 
corolla; filaments from below the mi ddle the base bearing 
copious short spreading haiplots Anthers “ellipsoid. somewhat 
On Mt. Yule, at about _ ,000 ft. elevation. 
Leaves, so far as known, to 8 in. long and to 1 in. broad, 
thinly venulated. Corolla acaly of 1 in. length. Anthers about 
isin. long. Fruit not obtained. 
** This description is se from scanty and very fragmentary 
genre The species among Papuan congeners comes nearest to 
R. culminicolum, but the foaled are usually larger, the “pedio els con- 
sider rably longi and the corolla is very deeply lobed, indeed, more 
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