BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON,. I2I 
or broadly ovate keeled mucronate sparingly puberulous out- 
side and there lepidote all over, ciliate. Leaves petiolate as 
much as 6 cm. long; lamina chartaceous lanceolate or oval- 
lanceolate acute, margin cartilaginous plane, base broadly 
cuneate ; upper surface mat olive-green smooth sparingly 
puberulous and discontiguously lepidote with small orange- 
brown scales showing a convex umbo and narrow uncoloured 
fringe, distance between the scales greater than diameter of 
scales which are about 7 ina sq. mm., midrib grooved puberulous, 
primary veins about 7 on each side straight hardly visible ; 
under surface much paler grey-green with a pale yellow raised 
epilose lepidote midrib and the whole surface (dry) showing a 
slightly raised reticulation of venation, lepidote with orange- 
brown discontiguous scales separated usually by more than 
diameter of scale, scales about Io in a sq. mm. rather larger than 
those of upper surface and with concave umbo ; petiole about 
5 mm. long straw-coloured lepidote and puberulous. Inflores- 
cence a solitary terminal 3-4-flowered umbel; outer bracts 
rounded crustaceous lepidote outside ciliate, innermost bracts 
broadly spathulate about 1 cm. long 6 mm. broad reflexing out- 
wards and downwards from middle lower half membranous 
broad upper half more crustaceous hooded and embossed out- 
wards as a convex surface lepidote outside with incurved mem- 
branous margins; bracteoles about 1.2 cm. long longer than 
pedicels filiform below club-shaped above pilose throughout 
lepidote on back above, white hair-crested ; pedicels short as 
much as 8 mm. long strict lepidote the pale yellow scales in 
groups epilose. Calyx small about-1.5 mm. long; cup about 
.5 mm. long lepidote outside 5-lobed; lobes often somewhat 
unequal about I mm. long rounded membranous above and 
ciliate hardly lepidote outside. Corolla white faintly tinged 
rose butterfly-shaped small about 2 cm. long, glabrous outside, 
finely puberulous towards base inside; tube compressed and 
grooved on each side of midrib of posterior petal correspondingly 
ridged inside expanding into a funnel-shaped 5-lobed limb ; 
lobes oblong-oval undulate about 1 cm. long 7 mm. broad half 
the length of the whole corolla half-spreading. Stamens 10 
unequal, longest about 2 cm. long equalling the corolla with 
anther 2 mm. long, shortest 1 cm. long gripped in the posterior 
corolline groove with anther 1 mm. long; filaments dilated 
downwards to the base which is glabrous over about 2 mm., 
puberulous above within the corolla-tube ; anthers violet-tinted. 
Disk puberulous. Gynaeceum about 2.7 cm. long much longer 
than corolla and stamens; ovary small about 2 mm. long conoid 
truncate lepidote ; style glabrous or with a few basal hairs, of 
equal diameter throughout not enlarged at tip and carrying a 
