BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON, 183 
surface epilose, primary veins invisible ; petiole about 1 cm. long 
commonly reddish finely puberulous and sparingly lepidote its 
margin bristly with twisted bristles. Flowers in a terminal 
3-flowered umbel ; flower-bud globular ovoid smaller than in RA. 
Augustinit solitary with a cluster of small foliage-buds one in 
each leaf-axil below and close up to it; bracts falling as 
the fiowers open, inner bracts at time of fall brown crustaceo- 
membranous oblong truncate apiculate cucullate outside lepi- 
dote puberulous, margin ciliate, inside more or less silkily 
adpressed hairy, about 1.2 cm. long 6 mm. broad; bracteoles fili- 
form at first white then brown membranous about 1.3 cm. long 
longer than pedicel adpressed hairy throughout on back and 
towards top sparingly lepidote hair-crested ; pedicels short 
green about 8 cm. long 1.5 mm. in diameter densely but dis- 
contiguously white lepidote with small scales, not expanding 
into the calyx-cup set on straight or only slightly oblique to 
axis of flower. Calyx green lepidote outside lobes sometimes 
faintly tinted ochre at top; cup about I mm. long somewhat 
fleshy 5-lobed; lobes unequal postero-lateral largest elongated 
triangular or oblong obtuse or deltoid as much as 1.5 mm. long 
often less, anterior lobes minute teeth on margin of calyx-cup, 
margin ciliate. Corolla butterfly-shaped but not conspicuously 
so greenish in bud at first yellowish-white then white with ochre- 
coloured spots posteriorly inside on disk of limb, about3.5 cm. long 
lepidote all over outside with distant white peltate scales epilose, 
puberulous inside at base of disk of limb ; tube oblique funnel- 
shaped about 5 mm. long in front, longer behind, slightly later- 
ally compressed about 1.5 mm. in diameter at base and there 
slightly fleshy and gibbous especially posteriorly, deeply grooved 
outside and correspondingly ridged inside expanding upwards 
into a concave limb with 5 spreading recurving lobes ; disk of 
the limb somewhat rugose; lobes oval or oblong oval with 
beautifully undulate almost fringed margin subequal a little 
over 2 cm. long and nearly 2 cm. broad. Stamens 10 unequal, 
longest barely as long as corolla about 3.3 cm. long with anther 
about 2.5 mm, long, shortest about 2.3 cm. long with anther 1.5 
mm. long all spreading not so declinate as usual in the Triflorum 
series ; filaments white slightly dilated downwards glabrous 
at base over 3.4 mm. then hair-tufted and densely pubescent 
above the ovary filling up base of concave limb of corolla, 
glabrous above; anthers crimson. Disk green with a dense 
fringe of hairs at top. Gynaeceum about 3.5 cm. long a little 
longer than stamens and about same length as corolla ; ovary 
about 2.5 mm. long and 1.5 mm. in diameter conoid angular green 
lepidote with translucent white small scales hair-crested at top ; 
style delicate greenish-yellow glabrous but with a very few short 
