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coloured scales. Stamens about 8, slightly or not at all exserted ; fila- 
ments glabrous ; anthers elliptic, small. Ovary scaly ; style slightly 
exserted, glabrous ; stigma clavate-hemispheric, lobed. Capsule -5 in. 
long, scaly, shortly apiculate, 5-valved, the valves not twisted in 
dehiscence. 
Perak, at elevations of 5,000 to 7,000 feet : Scortechini 401b, 753 ; 
Wray 311, 1572, 3840 ; Cantley. 
6. Rhododendron jasminiflorum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4524. 
Usually epiphytic; a small shrub, only a few feet high; young 
branches somewhat less than half as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous. 
Leaves in whorls, thickly coriaceous, almost sessile, broadly elliptic to 
elliptic-rotund, the apex acute, the base rounded and minutely cordate ; 
upper surface when dry pale olivaceous-brown, sometimes with a few 
small loose scales, the 5 to 7 pairs of spreading main-nerves slightly 
distinct and (like the midrib) depressed ; the lower darker brown, not 
olivaceous, the nerves very faint but the midrib pale and prominent ; 
length 1-25 to 3 in. ; breadth 1 to l - 5 in. ; petiole - 1 in. long. Umbels 
terminal, 8- to 20-flowered ; the pedicels filiform, -75 to 1 in. long, scaly 
and hairy ; bracteoles membranous, broad, glabrous, -25 to - 5 in. long. 
Calyx a shallow toothed cup, less than -1 in. deep. Corolla white, 
salver-shaped ; the tube narrowly cylindric, sparsely scaly or glabrous 
outside, about -15 in. in diam. and 1-25 to 1-6 in. long (when dry) ; the 
limb one-third as long, spreading, with 5 deep, broad, obovate-obtuse 
or rotund lobes. Stamens 10, the filaments shortly exserted, thin, 
pubescent ; anthers short, broad. Ovary 5-eelled, pubescent ; style 
longer than the corolla-tube, pubescent ; stigma depressed-capitate, 
grooved. Capsule about -75 to 1 in. long, narrowly sub-cylindric, much 
apiculate, ridged, its valves recurved to the base and often twisted. 
Lemaire, Jard Fleur, t. 41 ; Ulust. Hortic. (1859) t. 203 ; Clarke in 
Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 463 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1059. 
Malacca, on Mount Ophir : Griffith (K.D.) 3504 ; Maingay (K.D.) 
701 ; Ridley. Perak : Wray 1635 ; Scortechini ; King’s Collector 3586, 
3645, 6909 ; Ridley 124.— Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
7. Rhododendron longiflorum, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. III. 
88 with figure. Epiphytic ; 3 to 6 feet high ; young branches half as 
thick as a goose-quill, densely scaly like the petioles. Leaves coriaceous, 
usually elliptic-oblong, sometimes elliptic or oblanceolate, sub-acute or 
acute, much narrowed to the base ; upper surface when dry olivaceous- 
brown, coarsely and widely reticulate with broad black scales, especi- 
ally on the depressed midrib, the 5 to 7 pairs of spreading main-nerves 
faint ; lower surface brown, uniformly covered with black deciduous 
scales, ultimately glabrous ; the main-nerves indistinct but the midrib 
