BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 87 
hairy outside and towards top inside, finely ciliate at margin ; 
bracteoles narrow linear silkily hairy outside with a long hair 
crest, about 8 mm. long shorter than pedicels ; pedicel stout about 
1.3 cm. long densely woolly with orange-yellow hairs, decurved 
seton very obliquely to the calyx. Calyx obsolete showing 
5 minute woolly teeth. Corolla fleshy tubular-campanulate some- 
what oblique with a convex posterior side dark crimson darker 
spotted on all the petals about 4 cm. long glabrous inside and 
outside ; tube shallowly pouched at the base with dark glandular 
surface in the pouches inside, the posterior larger ; limb 5-lobed ; 
lobes short and broad about 1.5 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad, rounded 
slightly crenulate bilobed. Stamens 10 unequal shorter than 
corolla and gynaeceum, longest about 3 cm. long with anther 
2.5 mm. long, shortest about 2 cm. long with anther 2 mm. 
long; filaments red glabrous hardly expanded downwards ; 
anthers dark black-purple. Disk dark-purple glabrous. 
Gynaeceum about 3.5 cm. long shorter than corolla; ovary 
conoid about 7 mm. long grooved truncate densely woolly 
like the pedicels ; style glabrous hardly dilated under the small 
lobulate discoid stigma to which it forms a lip. 
. Yunnan. Eastern flank of the N’Maikha-Salween © 
divide. Lat. 26° N. Alt. 11,000 ft. Shrub of 6-8 ft. Flowers 
very deep crimson. On open rocky slopes and the margins of 
thickets. G. Forrest. No. 17,853. April 1919. 
W. Yunnan. N’Maikha-Salween divide. Lat. 26° 40’ N. 
Alt. 11,000 ft. Duplicate in immature fruit of No. 17,853- 
G. Forrest. No. 17,995. June 1919. 
W. Yunnan. Same habitat and locality as No. 17,853, of 
which it is duplicate in fruit. G. Forrest. No. 18,354. July 
IgIQ. 
: NE. Upper Burma. Hpimaw Pass. Alt. 10,000 ft. Just 
in bloom on the southerly-facing dip of the Hpimaw Pass, on 
both sides of which it abounds amid the small bamboo-brake. 
A dwarfish many-branched thin tree of 15 feet, with brown- 
felted leaves, and rather waxy flowers of intense scarlet-crimson, 
without scent. Farrer. No. 815. April 11, rgr19. 
A species of the Haematodes series and a very distinct one, 
At sight its rugose very thick leaves with bright-coloured under- 
leaf tomentum and the bilobed lobes of the 5-lobed corolla 
simulating a 10-lobed one might suggest the Falconeri series. 
But it has no near relationship to that series. From RA. 
haematodes, Franch., a plant of the Tali Range in Yunnan, 
the rich-coloured indumentum of the larger leaves suffices 
to separate it. Rh. chaetomallum, Balf. f. et Forrest, from far 
North in S.E. Tibet, has leaves almost as large, but they are 
much thinner with a thinner brownish-buff indumentum and 
