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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
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faro bS@TY PE Hutd, 4
x Rhockdendron cllesase... rages Sobaol
Noles. RAGE... 62172. (i43)
EX HERB: HORT. BOT, REG. KEW.
oe deleiense, 1 Male
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Cotype
Field No.
"
Delei Valley. 28 20 N. 96 37 BE. Alt. 8+10000 ft. Near Rh.
tephropeplim but flowers darker. A thin scraggy shrub growing in
thickets on the rocky ridge, in exposed places. Leaves closely
lepidote below, the scales black, giving a smoky grey colour.
Leafy calyx with a few crimson scales near the base, Stigma
erimson, style as long as corolla tube, with a few bright crimson
scales at the base, curved so as to bring the stigma~outside the
staminal ring. Stamens lo, unequal. The anthers gathered into a
loose ring and the lower ones slightly upturned. Filaments
hairy at the base. Ovary encrusted witn shining crimson scales
full of a secretton. Pedicel as well as calyx with scattered
scales. Corolla glabrous. See No. 8202. 5/5/28. Wrad 8165".
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