182 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
finely puberulous and with a few scattered twisted bristles also 
lepidote with white large adpressed seal-like peltate uniform 
scales .25 mm. in diameter irregularly distributed some dis- 
contiguous others contiguous year-old branchlets reddening 
the scales becoming reddish or yellowish. Foliage-bud ovoid 
narrowed to top shorter and thicker than in RA. Augustinii finely 
puberulous and sparsely lepidote solitary terminal or forming 
an apical cluster, last foliage-leaves close beneath the bud which 
has several outer leaves intermediate to foliage and true scale- 
leaves (each with an axillary bud), outer scale-leaves short 
rounded or broadly ovate or broadly triangular, pointed shortly 
acuminate not caudate, more or less puberulous and lepidote 
outside, followed by oblong or long oval or ovate scale-leaves be- 
coming gradually more convolute the inner of which have distinct 
midrib and are most lepidote on both sides of it ; innermost green 
enclosing the concave erect slightly convolutely overlapping - 
young foliage-leaves which have a few peltate scales scattered 
on each side of midrib of epilose upper surface save for puberulous 
midrib and the under surface epilose lepidote with white seal- 
like scales almost contiguous, the margin with a few long twisted 
hairs ; petiole puberulous and with a few long setulose hairs. 
Leaves petiolate as much as 6 cm. long stiff horizontally spread- 
ing; lamina chartaceous oblong-lanceolate as much as 5 cm. 
long 1.5 cm. broad tapered to an acute point ending in a promi- 
nent red-topped apiculate mucro, margin cartilaginous notched 
sparsely bristly-ciliate or eciliate flat or obscurely recurved, 
base obtuse ; upper surface dark green often becoming dark 
purple-red mat flat not bullate but finely rugulose and minutely 
papillose epilose excepting the grooved puberulous midrib, 
primary veins some 8 or g on each side hidden, lepidote with a 
few blackish or reddish distant peltate scales about the midrib, 
intervals between the scales much wider than the scales (about 
I in asq. mm.), scales often difficult to see in old leaves ; under 
surface pale green becoming slightly tawny lepidote with many 
brown nearly uniform peltate scales filled with reddish secretion 
discontiguous, intervals between the scales about width of 
scales (3-5 in a sq. mm.) midrib elevated paler and like rest of 
supra atroviridis nunc purpureo-rubra opaca plana haud bullata epilosa (costa 
media sulcata puberula excepta) squamis distantibus sparsim lepidota; infra 
3-floras dispositi; pedicelli vix 1 cm. longi squamis albidis discontiguis lepidoti. 
parvus. Corolla zygomorpha alba varo flavo basali et maculis aurantiacis 
notata extus sparsim lepidota epilosa; lobi undulato-lobulati. Stamina 10 
inaequalia corollam vix aequantia; filamenta pubescentia; antherae kermesinae. 
Gynaeceum staminibus longius corollam subaequans; ovarium lepidotum pilo- 
cristatum ; stylus basi puberulus 
