66 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 139 



133356 to 133368. Rhododendron spp. Ericaceae. 



133356. Rhododendron btjllattjm Franch. 



K. W. No. 00346. A loosely branched shrub up to 8 feet high, native to 

 Yunnan, China. The branchlets are densely and softly woolly; the elliptic 

 ovate leaves, 2 to 4 inches long, are puckered above and loosely woolly pubes- 

 cent beneath; and the broadly tubular, pink-tinged white flowers, 2 to 3 

 inches long, are borne in terminal clusters. 



For previous introduction see 111744. 



133357. Rhododendron decorum Franch. 



K. W. No. 00100. A small bushy tree bearing many flowered trusses of 

 large snow-white, fragrant flowers. Found growing in the upper limit of 

 subtropical forest. 



For previous introduction see 100337. 



133358 and 133359. Rhododendron dendricola Hutchinson. 



A small shrub, usually epiphytic, with leathery, oblong-elliptic, acuminate 

 leaves 3 to 4% inches long, scaly beneath, and umbels of about 3 pink-tinged 

 white flowers. The corollas are over 3 inches long with widely funnel-shaped 

 tubes and 5 rounded lobes, the lower ones having orange marks. Native to 

 northern Burma. 



133358. K. W. No. 00281. 



133359. K. W. No. 0052. 



133360. Rhododendron eriogynum I. B. Balf. and W. W. Smith. 



K. W. No. 0051. A shrub or small tree with leathery, oblong elliptic to 

 oblong-lanceolate leaves 6 to 9 inches long and racemose umbels of 12 to 16 

 flowers which are fleshy, bright-red, tubular, campanulate, and 2 inches long. 

 Native to Yunnan Province, China, at 9,000 feet altitude. 



133361. Rhododendron megacalyx Balf. f. and Ward. 



K. W. No. 00532. A bushy tree 10 to 15 feet high, native to northeastern 

 Burma between 7,000 and 9,000 feet altitude. The elliptic to obovate-elliptic 

 leaves 4 to 6 inches long are glabrous above and glaucous with small scales 

 beneath. The fragrant white flowers, in clusters of about 5, have a bell- 

 shaped calyx 1 inch long, and the broadly funnel-shaped corolla is more than 

 2 inches long. 



For previous introduction see 100349. 



133362. Rhododendron stenatjltjm I. B. Balf. and W. W. Smith. 



K. W. No. 00135. A shrub up to 16 feet high, with oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate leaves 3 to 5 inches long, bright glossy-green above ; and fragrant 

 solitary soft purplish-rose, narrow-funnel-shaped flowers 2 inches long. Na- 

 tive to Yunnan. 



133363. Rhododendron yunnanense Franch. Yunnan rhododendron. 



K. W. No. 00399. A low shrub 6 feet or less high, with narrowly elliptic, 

 somewhat hairy leaves, and few-flowered clusters of broadly funnel-shaped 

 flowers, white with the upper lobes spotted blood red. Native to Yunnan, 

 China. 



For previous introduction see 127632. 



133364. Rhododendron sp. 

 K. W. No. 0071. 



133365. Rhododendron sp. 

 K. W. No. 00203. 



133366. Rhododendron sp. 

 K. W. No. 0062. 



133367. Rhododendron sp. 

 K. W. No. 00204. 



