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124 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
grooved about 3 mm. long lepidote with almost contiguous 
cake-like scales ; style stout glabrous deflexed about half again 
as long as ovary broadly clavate at the top and forming a flat- 
lipped disk to the lobulate stigma. Capsule small ovoid about 
6 mm. long 5 mm. in diameter ash-grey with remains of scales 
and subtended by the withered calyx, dehiscing from apex by 
5 valves. Seeds most minute brown fusiform. 
N.E. Upper Burma. N’Maikha-Salween divide, Salween 
flank. Lat. 26° to 26° 8’ N. Alt. 11,000-12,000 ft. On the 
margins of forests, in cane brakes and on open rocky slopes. 
Shrub of 4-6 ft. Flowers plum-purple with a glaucous bloom. 
Anthers and filaments clear purplish-red or bright crimson. 
G. Forrest. No. 17,824. April 1919. Duplicate in fruit No. 
18,329. Aug. Igig. 
A charming aie with flowers recalling in appearance and 
construction those of some forms of the aggregate species Rh. 
campylogynum, Franch. But that is a dwarf species with small 
leaves and flowers on long pedicels solitary and terminal or in 
3-4-flowered terminal trusses in which the stamens have hairy 
filaments. Here we have a large-leaved plant with refined 
foliage of a delicate grey-green tint and trusses of many flowers 
projected well above the leaves. Altogether a distinct species 
much to be desired for our gardens. 
Rhododendron lepidostylum, Balf. f. et Forrest.* (Tricho- 
cladum 
Shrub with short thin annual branches, those of the year 
about I mm. in diameter densely hispid with bristle-hairs and 
lepidote beneath them with white stalked scales without fringe, 
bristles and vestiges of scales persisting more or less until de- 
cortication of the dark dirty-grey coloured cortex. Scale-leaves 
of the foliage-buds persisting for two years at least at the base 
* Rhododendron lepidostylum, Balf. f. et Forrest——Frutex ramulis brevibus 
pecnienctss dense hispidis et lepidotis. Alabastrorum perulae plus minusve persis- 
oli . , 
at 
margine setulosa, basi obtusa vel rotundata ; supra olivacea opaca glaberrima ; 
subtus pallidior subglauca ubique plus minusve setulosa et gh ei lepidota ; 
petiolus circ. 5 mm. longus hispidus et lepidotus. Flores in umbellam 2-floram 
terminalem dispositi ; practac perulis similes ; bracteolae lineari-clavatae circ. 
I cm. longae superne lepidotae et setulosae ; pedicelli ad 3 cm. longi lepidoti et 
setulosi. Calyx circ. 7 mm. longus 5-partitus ; lobi oblongi vel lanceolati obtusi 
vel acuti lepidoti et dense setulosi. Corolla flavida maculata obliqua circ. 2.5 
bre 
longum dense lepidotum et setulosum ; stylus lepidotus ovario longior. 
