BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 163 
ending in a red tubercle, margin cartilaginous slightly recurved, 
base usually unequal somewhat wedge-shaped or obtuse ; upper 
surface olive-green with darker purple-tinted midrib and primary 
veins smooth somewhat glossy quite glabrous or showing par- 
ticularly in the groove of the midrib remains of juvenile floccose 
hairs as a greyish scurf, primary veins some 15 on each side red- 
tinted and slightly grooved; under surface silvery shining 
traversed by the conspicuous raised dark red-tinted midrib and 
the pinnately spreading conspicuous raised primary veins, 
midrib and primary veins glabrescent showing only patchy 
grey vestiges of juvenile indumentum, silvery surface due to an 
agglutinate persistent indumentum of hairs and glands form- 
ing a pellicle some hairs long branched intricately interwoven 
the ultimate branches somewhat vesicular and often scintillating 
with a substratum of rosettes of many clustered radiating hairs 
intermixed with ovoid glands which show on the surface as very 
minute punctulations, the whole indumentum a typical one of 
the Grande series ; petiole stout about 2 cm. long grooved clad 
like the stem and glabrescent as it is. Inflorescence terminal 
forming a racemose cluster of 15 or more flowers, the rhachis as 
much as 4.7 cm. long floccose with distant short flocks ; outer 
bracts brown crustaceous rounded with thinner margin glutinous, 
inner bracts oblong-spathulate rounded or truncate mucronate 
densely silky outside and on midrib towards top inside, about 
3 mm. long I cm. broad; bracteoles very short about 5 mm. 
long tapered from the base silky ; pedicels 2-2.5 cm. long stout 
expanding at top into an oblique disk white with a dense close 
woolly persistent indumentum. Calyx inconspicuous very 
minute deltoid teeth around oblique disk-like end of pedicel 
whitely tomentose like the pedicels. Corolla creamy white 
with crimson basal spots at base of posterior petals somewhat 
fleshy as much as 4 cm. long obliquely campanulate at the 
base slightly gibbous retuse glabrous 8-lobed; lobes shallow 
rounded emarginate about 1 cm. long 1.5 cm. broad. Stamens 
16 subequal about half length of corolla, anthers clustering about 
middle of tube ; filaments delicate towards base puberulous with 
long thin pointed striate hairs; anthers 5 mm. long. Disk 
sparingly puberulous. Gynaeceum about 3.5 cm. long slightly 
shorter than corolla longer than stamens ; ovary conoid grooved 
truncate about 7 mm. long with 12 chambers, eglandular, densely 
whitely tomentose, the tomentum of long stalked fasciate hairs 
with long undulate and curling non-septate loose spreading 
branches ; style stout glabrous expanded below the large lobulate 
discoid recurving stigma. 
N.E. frontier of Burma. Tamgam. Capt. Abbay. No. 5. 
In Herb. Lace. 
