160 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
\\ Rhododendron rubrolineatum, Balf. f. et Forrest.* (Tricho- 
Shrub about 1.5 m. high with virgate branches. Branchlets 
thin straight, those of the year finely puberulous ane densely 
lepidote with yellow scales, those a year old about 2 mm. in 
diameter somewhat rufescent and slightly warted with rufous 
vestigial scales. Terminal foliage-buds ovoid about 1.2 cm. in 
diameter reddish-brown; scale-leaves of the foliage-buds all 
caducous ; outermost scale-leaves small about 3 mm. long 
crustaceous rigid broadly triangular from a wide base keeled 
and apiculate or only acute outside lepidote, inside more or 
less silky with adpressed hairs; inner scale-leaves gradually 
oblong, innermost membranous yellowish browner in middle 
spathulate about 1.2 cm. long 5 mm. broad, outside towards 
top lepidote along mid-rib, inside along middle particularly 
towards top silky with adpressed hairs, margins ciliate with 
long undulate hairs, summit subtruncate or rounded with 
many short white marginal hairs ; young leaves conduplicate- 
convolute in the bud, upper surface dark olive-green showing 
the reddish veins very sparsely lepidote, midrib villous to above 
middle, margin particularly towards apex with a few very long 
twisted hairs, under surface bright yellow-lepidote with contigu- 
ous scales ; petioles of juvenile leaves grooved densely yellow- 
lepidote with a few long hairs and more or less villous in groove. 
Mature leaves shortly petiolate about 3.8 cm. long falling after 
one season ; lamina leathery elliptic or oblong-elliptic as much 
as 3.5 cm. long and 2 cm. broad, apex obtuse or rounded with a 
short tuberculate hydathodal mucro, margin slightly cartila- 
ginous and recurved obscurely crenulate with notches of fallen 
hairs, base more or less obtuse ; upper surface slightly reticulate 
= Rhododendron vubrolineatum, Balf. f. et Forrest. —Frutex virgatus ad 1.5 m 
u tricti 
Tulae caducae. Folia annua petiolata ad 3.8 cm. longa; lamina coriacea 
1:5 °¢ 
longi 7 mm. or oblongi apice a sheep > Stamina 10 entlins 
abba ps ear circ. 2 mim. longum ; stylus glaber ovario longior. Cap- 
sula ovoidea ad 1 cm. longa, 5 mm. lata. Semina minuta fusiformia exannulata- 
