172 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Underleaf surface yellow-green sparingly floccose or 
abrescent. 
Scale-leaves of bud falling at expansio 
Stems and Sana red-setulose w "ith | floccose sub- 
atum 
Pedicels as ovaries s with setulose- past and 
fl e substratum; ovaries floc- 
cose shortly glandular 
Calyx I cm. long; cup and lobes glabrous 
x: ae ark red floccose- 
e persis 
Corolla tubulr-campanlate deep crimson 
uns 
Staminal est nts glabrous. 
Style longer than corolla . ‘ temenium, 
Underleaf surface yellow-green sparingly floccose. 
Scale-leaves of the bud falling at expan 
Stems, petioles and midrib in part a ES 
eglandular 
Pedicels and ovaries fasciate-floccose setulose 
glandular. 
Calyx 2 mm. long; cup and lobes glabrous 
on back; lobes pale-coloured floc- 
cose-ciliate persistent. 
Corolla tubular-campanulate pale rose-pink 
unspotted. 
Staminal filaments glabrous. 
tyle shorter than corolla trichomiscum, 
Underleaf surface oe with a thin veil of 
occose hairs 
Scale-leaves of the bud failing at expansion 
Stem, petioles and midrib red- Ame and shortly 
glandular often glabres 
Pedicels and ovaries shortly pe s 
Calyx 7 mm. long; cup floccose and glan- 
ular on back; lobes red glabrous 
on back, floccose and gland-cilfate 
deciduous, 
Corolla tubular-campanulate dark rose 
sparingly spotted 
Staminal filaments puberulous. 
Style equalling in length corolla ; eudoxum, 
Amongst the typical members of the Sanguineum series RA. 
trichomiscum finds a resembling form in Rh. cloiophorum, Balf. f. 
et Forrest. In form and tint of foliage they are much alike 
and that Rh. clotophorum within its phylum does not retain the 
scale-leaves of its foliage-buds so markedly as is seen elsewhere 
finds an echo in Rh. trichomiscum where the scale-leaves some- 
times persist to the end of the season of formation. The flower- 
colour in the living plants i is the same—rosé according to Forrest’s 
description—and in both when dried the flowers fade to a 
yellowish tint so evident that without the regulating statement 
