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88 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
the stems have an indumentum more or less setulose in the 
upper stratum. 
Rhododendron agglutinatum, Balf. f. et Forrest.* 
Shrub barely 2 m. high with stout branches showing short 
annual growths. Branches a year old greenish-yellow glabrous 
or with a withered eee _ trace of juvenile hairs and 
glands, as much as 4 mm. in diameter. Foliage-buds ovoid 
pointed ; outer scale-leaves ae cucullate leathery with 
thinner margin keeled and mucronate puberulous on back pro- 
minently silky inside the margin ciliate with sebaceous hairs 
very numerous around the mucro, transition-forms more oval, 
innermost which are carried up on elongating shoot are more 
-or less membranous yellow elongated spathulate pointed and 
mucronate as much as 2.5 cm. long 8 mm. broad ciliate with 
sebaceous hairs; young leaves revolute covered on both sides 
like the young stems with large orange-coloured glands mixed 
with long branched wide-celled hairs, the hairs fewer and glands 
more numerous on upper than on under side. Leaves petiolate 
as much as 10 cm. long ; lamina leathery oblong-oval or oblong 
sometimes a little broader above the middle as much as 8.5 
cm. long 3.5 cm. broad, apex obtuse or somewhat acute some- 
times almost rounded with a red short mucro, margin cartila- 
* Rhododendron pclae: Balf. f. et Forrest—Frutex vix 2 m. altus 
ramis crassis. ami annotini viridi-flavi glabri vel — “juvenilis vestigiis 
petiolata ad to cm. longa; lamina coriacea oblongo-ovalis vel oblongs semel 
fulva ubique —— pellicula laevi apeirtinies. pilorum glandularumque 
i iolus c irc 
cm. longus hacks flavus saepe indumenti weatigita conspersus. Flores in racemo- 
umbellam compactam circ. 10-12-floram aggregati, rhachi puberula et glandulosa 
ertil 
intus puberula 5-loba ; lobi emarginati lati circ. 1.5 cm. longi 2 cm. lati n 
10 inaequalia corolla gynaeceoque multo ra ee EE villosa ae 
puberulus. Gynaeceum corolla brevius circ. 2.5 cm. longum ; ovarium circ. 3.5 
mm. longum sulcatum truncatum glabrum; stylus glaber sub sagashti phidsho 
paullo expans 
