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stout and prominent ; length 2-25 to 3 - 5 in. ; breadth -8 to 1'5 in. ; 
petioles -35 to -5 in. long, stout. Umbels terminal, 5- to 7-flowered ; flower- 
pedicels '5 to '8 in. long, scaly or glabrous. Flowers about 2 in. long, 
glabrous outside, narrowly sub-eampanulate, almost salver-shaped. 
Calyx small, cupular, with wavy edges, under -05 in. deep. Corolla 
red, infundibuliform ; its tube about -25 in. wide near the base but 
expanding gradually to about - 4 in. or more near the mouth, about three 
times as long as the broadly bluntly 5-lobed limb. Stamens 10, the 
filaments slender, pubescent, slightly exserted ; anthers short, blunt. 
Ovary densely hairy like the style ; stigma clavate. Capsule unknown. 
PI. des Serres, V. p. 477-430f. 
Perak : Scortechini 385, 553, 1409; King’s Collector 1864, 5181. — 
Distrib. Borneo, Sumatra. 
8. Rhododendron malayanum, Jack in Mai. Misc. II. n. 7, 17. An 
erect straggling shrub, 3 to 15 feet high, all parts more or less glan- 
dular and scaly ; young branches less than half as thick as a goose- 
quill. Leaves narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, the apex and base acute 
or sub-acute, the edges recurved when dry ; upper surface shining, 
glabrous, and olivaceous when dry, the 5 to 8 pairs of main-nerves 
faint, slightly depressed, the midrib much depressed and often scaly ; 
the lower of a deep uniform brownish-cinereous colour and with 
numerous dark scales, the nerves obsolete but the midrib bold and pro- 
minent ; length 1'75 to 3-25 in. ; breadth -75 to 1-25 in. ; petioles -4 to 
•6 in. long, covered with large black scales. Umbels terminal, 3- to 5- 
flowered. Flowers ’8 in. long, their pedicels '25 to '35 in. long, slender, 
scaly. Calyx cupular, 5-toothed, less than -05 in. deep. Corolla red, 
glabrous, -8 in. long (when dry), salver-shaped, the tube about -2 in. in 
diam. when dry, about '6 in. long, the limb about - 5 in. across when 
dry, with 5 broad, blunt, cuneate lobes. Stamens 10, their filaments 
glabrous. Ovary 5-eelled ; style slightly exserted from the throat of 
the corolla, glabrous ; stigma clavate. Capsule about 1 in. long, slender, 
ridged, the valves much recurved, twisted. Hook. Journ. Bot. I. 369 ; 
DC. Prod. VII. 725 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6045 ; Beceari Malesia, I. 205 ; 
Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 463. It. tubifiorum and It. cele- 
bicum, DC. l.c. 725 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 44, t. 2ab ; 
PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1059. B. lampongum, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 585. 
Vireya tubiflora and V. celebica, Blume Bijdr. 855, 854. 
Malacca : on Mount Ophir, 4,000 ft., Griffith (K.D.) 3503 ; Maingay 
(K.D.) 702 ; Wray ; Kurz. Perak : Scortechini 385, 2336 ; Wray 614 ; 
King’s Collector 3227, 8076. Penang : Bidley 125. Selangor : Bidley 
7557. — Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 
9. Rhododendron dubium, n. sp., King & Gamble. A shrub or small 
