216 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 2, 



Hook. Icon. t. 2 i6) , branchlets more or less terete, covered with appressed 

 blackish bristles ; leaves often smaller, shortly petioled, the glands beneath 

 often produced into appressed bristles. A shrub, large or often only | to a 

 foot high. 



Hab. Var. /?. and y. frequent in the drier hill-forests, especially the 

 stunted ones, of the Martaban hills, at 6000 to 7000 ft. elevation. — Fl. 

 Febr. ; Fr. March. 



The forms here brought together vary greatly in the length of the 

 petiole, the pubescence of the corolla inside, size of plant, &c., and require 

 further study. 



Andromeda, L. 



1. A. ovALiroLiA, Wall. Cat. 763 and in Asiat. Ees. XIII. 391 cum 

 icon. ; Clegh. in Journ. Agr. Hort. Soc. Beng. XIV. 260. cum tab. ; Wight 

 Icon. t. 1199. {Fleris ovalifoUa, Don. Gen. Syst. III. 832 ; DC. Prod. 

 VII. 599 ; A lanceolata, Wight Icon. t. 1198 ?). 



Hab. Frequent in the drier hill-forests, especially the stunted ones 

 and in the pine-forests, of Martaban, at 5000 to 7000 ft. elevation. — Fr. 

 March. 



Rhododendron, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Leaves shortly appressed tomentose or lepidote beneath. Calyx inconspicuous. 

 Leaves beneath silvery and shortly tomentose beneath ; ovary rusty puberulous ; bracts 



of leaf-buds villous, B. arboreum. 



Leaves beneath and ovary and style rusty lepidote ; bracts of leaf-buds silky ciliate 

 only, E. formosum. 



* * Leaves glabrous and smooth. 



Ovary and style quite glabrous ; bracts of leaf-buds ciliolate, E. Moulmeinense. 



1. R. AEBOEEFM, Sm. Exot. Fl. t. 6 ; Dot. Reg. t. 890, 1240 and 

 1982 ; DC. Prod. VII. 720 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 168 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3290 ; 

 Houtt. Fl. d. serr. IX. t. 915 ; Wight Icon. t. 1201 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 Madr. t. 228. 



Hab. In the hill-forests of the Karenee country (Rev. F. Mason). 



2. R. roEMOSUM, Wall. PI. As. rar. III. 3. t. 207 j DC. Prod. VII. 

 721 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4457. 



Var. ^. VEiTCHiAmiM, {B. VeitcManum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4992), 

 flowers nearly twice the size ; leaves not ciliate. 



Hab. Martaban, not unfrequent on the top of Nattoimg, at 7200 ft. 

 elevation. — var. /S. Moulmein hills. — Fl. March. 



3. R. Moulmeinense, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4904. 



Hab. Common in the hill-forests, especially the damper ones, from 

 Martaban down to Tenasserim, at 4000 to 7000 ft. elevation. — Fl. March. 



