HIGHLAND PLANTS FROM NEW GUINEA. 23 
The tube of its corolla is five-plicate; the hairlets on the filaments are longer than 
those on the style ; the united stigmata measure fully an eighth of an inch; the disk 
is deeply divided into rounded lobes, and bears a very close brownish short vestiture, 
Here it might aptly be remarked, that if anthers of Rhododendrons (and 
indeed many other plants) were, when freshly gathered, wrapped in oil-silk or 
tinfoil, they could early be turned to horticultural use for hybridising. 
Rhododendron phaeochitum. 
Branchlets provided with a close indument of dark-brown stellular hairlets ; 
leaves on rather short stalks, cuneate-ovate, slightly pointed, at the margin somewhat 
recurved, above punctular-rough and glabrescent, beneath dotted with copious brown 
stellular hairlets; flowers few together terminal; pedicels very conspicuous, slender, 
brown from a close vestiture; bracts broadish, rather short, soon glabrous; calyx 
reduced to an almost annular membrane, but occasionally producing a linear-filiform 
lobe; corolla deep-red ; its tube nearly thrice as long as the lobes, cylindric, slightly 
more widened towards the orifice, bearing outside brown much scattered stellular 
hairlets and inside glittering simple appressed colourless dispersed hairlets ; lobes 
roundish, glabrous, somewhat crisped; stamens ten, some of the longest slightly 
exceeding the corolla; filaments at their lower portion beset with soft pale very short 
hairlets; anthers hardly three times longer than broad; stigma-cover somewhat 
dilated, five-furrowed; disk undularly bent, closely ciliolated; ovulary cylindric- 
conical, as well as the style provided with a brown stellular indument. 
Mount Musgrave. 
Vestiture slightly squamular. Leaves at and near the summit of the branchlets 
somewhat crowded or even whorled, the majority there about two inches long. 
Bracts rather scarious. Pedicels during anthesis about three-quarters of an inch long. 
Total length of corolla almost one and a half inches, width of tube a third of an inch 
nearly throughout. Ovulary of expanding flower three times shorter than the style. 
Near R. rugosum ; the following are its discrepancies. Leaves blunter and not 
conspicuously rugular ; corolla-tube narrower and proportionately longer; corolla- 
lobes smaller; style only towards the upper end glabrous. In estimating these 
differences it should be kept in mind, that as yet we do not know the range of variability 
of either plant here now compared. ‘The new species shows also some affinity to 
R. album. 
I have been unable to understand clearly the distinguishing marks of some 
congeners from descriptions in the Malesia. 
Rhododendron spondylophyllum. 
Branchlets rough from minute papillular or stellular squamules ; leaves rather 
small, in whorls of three or few, almost sessile, mostly cordate-ovate, but somewhat 
acute, imperfectly recurved at the margin, almost grandular-rough on both sides ; 
