BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 169 
stand up like beads upon and give a brown colour to the 
mature surface but in RA, timeteum are distant leaving wide 
green areas between. 
A\2- Rhododendron trichomiscum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.+ 
Shrub reaching nearly 1 m. high with many straight thin 
(about 2 mm. in diameter when a year old) nodular branches 
clad with many red bristle-hairs, annual growth short a little 
over I cm. long producing some 4-6 foliage-leaves aps fashion 
at the top which seem to last but one year, the outermost scale- 
leaves of the bud falling in the year of expansion occasionally 
remaining to the end of the season, never acted to the 
second year; twigs of the year red soon becoming grey and 
showing bristles or their wart-scars until a ere! °F oliage- 
buds fusiform pointed ; outermost scale-leaves crustaceous with 
rounded base acuminate or tailed keeled slightly lanate at base 
truncate emarginate and mucronate at top; young leaves 
revolute in bud. Leaves petiolate as much as 5.5 cm. long ; 
lamina chartaceous narrowly oblong-obovate as much as 5 cm. 
long 1.5 cm. broad apex obtuse or rounded-obtuse with a very 
short tuberculate red hydathodal mucro, margin slightly carti- 
punctulate with the red bases of fallen hairs or bristles, base 
narrowed and tapered into a wing on the petiole and there 
often bearing red bristles ; upper surface dark olive-green mat 
shagreened glabrous, midrib broad grooved with an occasional 
red bristle and traces of some floccose hairs, primary veins about 
* Ooif, hair; uéoxocs, stem—in allusion to the bristly twigs. 
+ Rhododendron trichomiscum, Balf. f. et Forrest—Frutex nanus ad 1 m. 
altus. Rami setiferi plus minusve nodulosi folia 4-6 rosulatim ad apicem gerentes, 
Alabastrorum perulae mox deciduae. Folia petiolata ad 5.5 cm. longa ; Jamina 
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seri brac teo lae ‘pedicellis breviores ; pedicelli cire. 1.5 cm. longi dense 
intus vix costat lobi 5 rotundati 1.3 cm. longi 2 cm. latiemarginati. Stamina 
to paullo inaequalia corolla gynaeceoque breviora; filamenta glabra. Discus 
gla corolla multo brevius staminibus paullo longius; o 
petasiforme truncatum sulcatum circ. 3 mm. longum dense glanduloso-setosum 
et ass paucis fasciatis indutum ; stylus glaber. 
