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86 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Rhododendron i ntiereor Balf. £. et Forrest, p. 169. 
ichophorum, Balf. f., p. 173. 
is vicarium, Balf. f., p. 176. 
= Vilmorinianum, Ball. f. , p. 181. 
Rhododendron aemulorum, Balf.f.* (Haematodes.) 
A much-branched shrub or small tree attaining 4 m. in height. 
Branches stout, those a year old some 6 mm. in diameter, en- 
wrapped in a grey or cinnamon-grey bistrate dense tomentose 
indumentum about 1 mm. thick, the rosette-hairs of the lower 
stratum uncoloured of many narrow pointed branches on short 
stalks, hairs of the upper stratum long cinnamon-tinted with 
stout many-celled stalk and many ascending besom-clustered 
thin pointed interlocking branches, the tomentum more or less 
persistent until decortication after some years. Foliage-buds 
unknown. Leaves petiolate as much as 15 cm. long; lamina 
very thick leathery stiff obovate as much as 13 cm. long 8 cm. 
road, apex rounded somewhat truncate or retuse with a short 
stout mucro, margin cartilaginous plane, base obtuse ; upper 
surface dark green rough rugulose and with punctulations from 
bases of fallen hairs, the midrib raised at base becoming grooved 
upwards, the primary veins about 12 on each side grooved as 
are the smaller veins the intermediate surface being raised, 
glabrous except the midrib and primary veins which are more or 
less floccose with cinnamon-coloured or grey hairs ; under sur- 
face cinnamon-brown covered with a dense woolly bistrate 
tomentum one millimeter or more thick the hairs like those of 
the stem, midrib more or less prominent and like the rest of 
venation which is hidden covered by the tomentum ; petiole 
stout about 2.5 cm. long 5 mm. in diameter enwrapped like the 
stem in tomentum. Flowers in a terminal about 14-flowered 
compact umbel the rhachis about 1 cm. long densely woolly, 
the wool orange-coloured ; fertile bracts membranous obovate- 
oblong about 3 cm. long 1 cm. broad orange-coloured silkily 
* _Rhododendron aemulorum, Balt. f. ~—Frutex multiramosus ad 4 m. altus. 
o cinnam 
osa 
circ, 14-flora, rhachi lanata; bracteae membranaceae circ. 3 cm. longae obovato- 
oblongae utrinque sericeae ; bracteolae lineares pedicellis breviores pilo-cristatae ; 
pedicelli decurvati circ. 1.3 cm. longi dense lanati. Calyx obsoletus vel brevissime 
5-dentatus lanato-tomentosus. Corolla tubuloso-campanulata postice convexa 
kermesina maculata circ. 4 cm. longa utrinque glabra 5-lobata ; lobi late bilobu- 
lati. Stamina ro corolla gynae ue breviora; filamenta glabra. Discus glaber. 
ceog 
Gynaeceum corolla paullo brevius ; ovarium conoideum circ. 7 mm. longum dense 
tomentosum 
m ; stylus glaber. 
