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of the man on the spot a describer of the dried specimens would 
not be blameable had he given yellow as the flower-colour. There 
is no risk of confusion of the two species if the underleaf indu- 
mentum be looked at, Rh. cloiophorum having the typical white 
to buff-coloured bistrate indumentum of the Sanguineum series, 
and it has no bristle-hairs on the stem. 
U4\% Rhododendron trichophorum, Balf. f.* (Triflorum.) 
Loosely branched shrub forming a few longer erect virgate 
branches. Branches of the year bright green scaly with yellowish 
scattered scales conspicuous beneath many white bristle-hairs ; 
branchesa year old about 3.5 mm. in diameter becoming brown the 
scales as blackish warts and the bristles blackening and persisting 
for many years. Foliage-bud oblong-ovoid pointed ; outermost 
scale-leaves crustaceous rounded or broadly triangular keeled 
and mucronulate more or less ciliate; inner oblong or ovate ; 
innermost thinner strap-shaped spathulate hooded blunt or 
rounded shortly mucronulate about 1.5 cm. long 5 mm. broad 
at the top; all more or less silky inside, scaly with yellowish 
peltate scales outside, more or less ciliate ; young leaves con- 
duplicate-convolute ciliate, both surfaces scaly, the upper also 
puberulous and bearing bristles with the midrib slightly Saas 
and puberulous, the under surface densely hairy on midri 
Leaves petiolate as much as 9.5 cm. long ; lamina thinly ee 
ovate or oblong-ovate as much as 9 cm. long 3.5 cm. broad 
narrowed to an acute tip with a prominent red hydathodal mucro, 
margin cartiJaginous slightly recurved, base cordulate or sub- 
truncate ; upper surface opaque dark green, when young usually 
red the red tint often remaining on the leaves in their second 
year, slightly shagreened distantly black spotted with remains 
of juvenile peltate scales also most minutely puberulous, the 
* Rhododendron irichophorum, Balf. f£.-— Frutex laxe ramosus nunc ramos 
virgatos emitten ns. Rami hornotini laete virides lepidoti et pallide setosi, anno» 
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erulae intimae ee circ. 1.5 cm. longae 5 mm. latae intus sericeae, 
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Gynaeceum corolla longius; ovarium lepidotum pilo- cristatum ; 
stylus basi pilosus ; stigma kermesinum parv 
