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126 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
been in postal packet and is not adequate for full description ; 
what I have said of the species above will require therefore some 
emendation when better material arrives. 
Rhododendron litiense,* Balf. f. et Forrest.f (Souliei.) 
Shrub as much as 2.5 m. high with medium thick branches 
usually straight. Branches of the year densely glandular with 
short-stalked ovoid red fleshy glands, year-old branches about 
3 mm. in diameter glabrescent showing usually traces of the 
glands. Foliage-buds fusiform ; outer scale-leaves crustaceous 
rounded ovate becoming oblong or oblong ovate keeled shortly 
apiculate, on the back densely puberulous with adpressed hairs 
which often redden and become greasy, margin ciliate with white 
often reddening branched hairs; innermost scale-leaves mem- 
branous yellow brown ligulate-spathulate about 3 cm. long 6 mm. 
broad at top acute more or less puberulous outside ; young 
leaves revolute, the upper surface more or less sprinkled with 
stalked red glands and some floccose fasciate or rosette hairs all 
early deciduous, under surface clad with many cauliflower hairs 
and glands, petiole glandular with sessile glands underneath and 
stalked glands on margin and above where also are some 
floccose hairs. Leaves ad gerae as much as 9 cm. long; lamina 
thinly coriaceous oblong or oblong-oval as much as 7.5 cm. 
long 3 cm. broad slightly narrowed at top obtuse with a 
short apiculus ending in a tubercular horny hydathode, margin 
plane thinly cartilaginous, base trunculate or shallowly cor- 
dulate ; upper surface mat green shagreened, midrib shallowly 
* Liti, in Yunnan, in the Meat of which the plant was pune 
t Rhododendron Silene, Balf. t Forrest.—Frutex ad 2.5 altus. Rami 
hornotini dense sthreiges Soir aes circ. mm. soda _slabrescentes. 
Alabastrorum perulae extimae dorso puberulae margine piloso-ciliatae, intim 
ligulato-spathulatae extus puberulae. Folia petiolata ad 9 cm. longa ; catinn 
tenuiter coriacea oblonga vel oblongo-ovalis, apice paullo angustata apiculata 
mucronata, margine tenuiter cartilaginea plana, basi trunculata vel subcordulata ; 
Ee : : 1 
ee carters vestita et pilis caulifloris glandulisque conspersa, costa media 
rubi vestigiis verruculosa ; petiolus ad 1.5 cm. longus plus minusve 
poets sed glandularum vestigia gerens. Flores in umbellam 5-6-floram 
brevissime racemosam dispositi, rhachi sparsim glandulosa et floccosa ; bracteae 
intimae extus intusque sericeae ; bracteolae circ. 7 mm. longae sparsim pilosae 
superne glandulosae; pedicelli stricti ad 1.5 cm. longi glandulosi. Calyx folia 
gi ; e breviora; filam 
haud deorsum — glabra. oe Sdnguduey Gynaeceum corolla brevius 
stamina subaequans ; ovarium circ m. longum conoideum truncatum glandu- 
losum glandulis Sake stipitatta' stl glandulosus, glandulis breviter stipitatis. 
