BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 161 
(dry) glabrous excepting the grooved midrib which is more or 
less hairy, primary veins about 8 on each side hardly visible ; 
under surface paler, puberulous midrib and primary veins 
whitish yellow raised very conspicuous, whole surface lepidote 
with short-stalked rufous or yellowish peltate small discon- 
tiguous scales some smaller some larger each scale having a 
broad umbo and narrow fringe and throughout infiltrated by 
reddish or yellow secretion, intervals between the scales 
greater than diameter of scales clad with conspicuous epidermal 
wax-coated papillae; petiole about 3 mm. long grooved, the 
groove villous, elsewhere lepidote and at the base more or less 
puberulous. Flowers in 3-flowered (or 4) axillary umbels 
solitary in the axils of the uppermost foliage-leaves, 4 or more 
such umbels in a cluster, no terminal umbel ; bracts loosening 
and falling as flowers expand or remaining as a circlet enclosing 
base of flower-pedicels, all crustaceous, outermost rounded about 
3mm. in diameter, inner oblong or oblong-elliptic convolute 
obtuse or truncate lepidote outside white ciliate about 1 cm 
long; bracteoles filiform about 1 cm. long pilose from base 
hair-crested with a few lepidote scales outside ; pedicels about 
1 cm. long stiff divergent more or less lepidote. Calyx small 
about 1 mm. long cut almost to base into 5 rounded or subacute 
lobes, outside more or less lepidote, margin eciliate or with an 
occasional hair. Corolla campanulate ivory-yellow lined and 
flushed rose outside, slightly spotted on posterior side, about 
1.8 cm. long ; tube not grooved expanding into a spreading limb 
of 5 lobes, outside more or less lepidote, inside faintly puberulous ; 
lobes about 1 cm. long and 7 mm. broad oblong, rounded at 
apex, margin somewhat crenulate. Stamens Io unequal about 
same length as or shorter than corolla, longest about 1.8 cm. 
long with oblong brown anther about 2mm. long, shortest about 
1 cm. long with globose anther about I mm. in diameter ; fila- 
ments stout slightly wider to base which is naked for about 2 mm. 
and then densely villous upwards to or short of the middle 
(higher in the shorter stamens). Disk puberulous below the 
ovary. Gynaeceum about equalling in length or slightly 
longer than corolla and stamens; ovary conoid imbricately 
yellow-lepidote about 2 mm. long; style glabrous slightly 
expanded at apex into a greenish slightly lobulate stigma. 
Capsule ovoid about 1 cm. long 5 mm. broad brown showing 
traces of the ovarian scales dehiscing from apex to base by 
5 lobes. Seeds very small not 1 mm. long brown fusiform 
striate without an arillar wing, pointed at chalazal end, slightly 
protruding at funicular end. 
Mid W. Yunnan. Tali Range. Open pasture. Alt. 11,000 
ft. Shrub of 2 ft. Flowers creamy (ivory) yellow, lined and 
