Page:Journal of botany, British and foreign, Volume 34 (1896).djvu/384

 356 NEW PHILIPPINE PLANTS. have a short stalk 2 mm. or less in length, and a blade of very uniform shape, 10-12 mm. long by 3-5-5 broad. The pedicel is 6 mm. long, and articulated with the ovary. The broad spreading calyx-lobes bear at their tips a tuft of short hairs. The bright crimson corolla is 6 mm. long, 3 mm. across the mouth, and 5 across the inflated lower portion; the blunt lobes are 1*5 mm. long. The stamens, including the anther (1-5 mm.), are 4 mm. long; the style and stigma are also 4 mm. The style becomes suddenly inflated above the base, assuming a linear-oblong shape. Has the habit of Diplycosia microphylla Becc. Rhododendron lussoniense, sp. nov. Lignosus, ramis gla- bris brunneis ; foliis oblanceolatis, facie superiore glabra, inferiore squamulis glandulosis nigris notata ; bracteis castaneo-brunneis, glabris, ovatis, mucronatis ; pedicellis pubescentibus, flores baud sequantibus ; calyce parvo patelliforme ; corolla alba inter mediocres, tubo infundibuliforme cum glandulis brunneis externe notato, lobis, tubum sequantibus, cuneato-spathulatis ; staminibus 10, filameutis in parte inferiore pubescentibus superne glabris ; ovario pilose 5-loculare. Hab. North-west-central Luzon, highland of Lepanto. The stiff woody leafy shoots of the third season are 3 mm. in diameter, and bear the leaves crowded near the ends. The petioles are short (4-5 mm. long), the blades 4-5-5-5 cm. long, 1-2-1-7 cm. broad ; the lower surface bears numerous roundish black scales. The smooth bracts are 6-12 mm. long. The pedicels are 2-5 cm. long ; the flowers, which have been pink or tinged with pink, 3 cm. long and about the same across. The corymb in the single specimen is 3-flowered. The calyx is reduced to a flattened plate with 5 scarcely indicated lobes. The corolla-tube and lobes are each 2 cm. long ; the former is 1 cm. across at the mouth, the latter are entire, with a slightly emarginate apex, and 16 mm. broad in the spreading upper part. The stamens including the anthers (4 mm.) are 2*5 cm. long, of equal length with the pistil. The ovary and lower part of the columnar style have numerous short hairs. Near the Indian R. formosum Wall., but distinguished by its smaller flowers. Rhododendron Whitehead!, sp. nov. Lignosus, ramis duris rigidis, ramulis glabris ^bescentibus ; foliis obovatis, interdum orbiculari-obovatis rarius ovalibus, apice rotundo vel emarginato, basi saepius cuneata, facie superiore glabra atre viride, inferiore glandulis crebris punctata ; bracteis ovatis obtusis minute puberulis, pedicellis validis quam flores brevioribus velut calyce pubescentibus ; calyce parvo patelliforme ; corolla inter mediocres atre purpurea, campanulata lobis truncate obovatis cum apice lato retuso, tubo sequantibus ; staminibus 10 insequalibus basi lata breviter pilosis ; ovario 5-loculare conico dense piloso, stylo super basin pilosam glabro apice clavato. Hab. North-west-central Luzon, highland of Lepanto. The woody shoots are stiff and hard, with the leaves closely crowded at their ends ; shoots of the third season are 3 mm. in