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jetsy,Wi=\--¥ L010) BY,Ce (eye) ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN ue gu 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 Alor ey 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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