BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 89 
ginous slightly recurved, base truncate or sometimes approach- 
ing cordulate with narrow lateral lobes; upper surface dark 
olive-green with a tinge of red conspicuously shagreened glabrous 
all except the grooved red midrib in which are withered hairs 
and glands, primary veins some 15 on each side red and slightly 
grooved ; under surface dark tawny covered by persistent 
agglutinate indumentum forming a pellicle over the whole sur- 
face including the raised midrib and primary veins (which latter 
it conceals), where pellicle removed the midrib appears bright 
yellow and this is seen particularly in its thicker part towards 
base of lamina, indumentum formed of a mixture of the glands 
and long-branched broad cells of the juvenile leaves now glued 
together into a more or less uniform or slightly areolate skin ; 
petiole about 1.5 cm. long stout bright yellow rarely a trace of 
the juvenile hairs and glands. Flowers in small compact 
raceme-umbels of some 10—12 flowers, the rhachis about 5 mm. 
long puberulous and glandular; fertile bracts broadly obovate 
spathulate as much as 2 cm. long 1 cm. broad densely silkily 
woolly ; bracteoles filiform very short about 3 mm. long thickly 
pilose and hair-crested ; pedicels short about 1.5 cm. long some- 
times longer sometimes shorter often red sparingly glandular and 
floccose. Calyx small hardly t mm. long reddened with 5 obtuse 
rounded or pointed lobes puberulous and shortly ciliate. Corolla 
about 3.5 cm. long erect and nearly regular funnel-shaped cam- 
panulate or nodding and irregular campanulate washed rose with 
many conspicuous crimson dots over posterior side glabrous 
outside, puberulous at base inside, expanding into a 5-lobed 
limb ; lobes broad about 1.5 cm. long about 2 cm. broad emar- 
ginate. Stamens Io unequal much shorter than corolla and 
gynaeceum, longest about 2 cm. long, shortest about 1 cm. long ; 
filaments broad villous over a greater part of length from base ; 
anthers about 2 mm. long. Disk copiously puberulous. 
Gynaeceum about 2.5 cm. long shorter than corolla; ovary 
about 3.5 mm. long cylindric deeply grooved truncate glabrous ; 
style glabrous stout slightly expanded below the lobulate 
stigma 
S.W. Szechwan. Mountains around Mu-li. Lat. 28° 12’ N. | 
Alt. 12,000-13,000 ft. In Rhododendron forest. Shrub of 
4-6 ft. Flowers white with crimson markings. G. Forrest. 
No. 16,319. June 1918. : 
S.W. Szechwan. Mu-li Mountains. Lat. 28° 12’ N. Alt. 
II,000—12,000 ft. Open rocky slopes. Shrub of 4-6 ft. Flowers 
washed rose deepest in bud with crimson markings. G. Forrest. 
No. ginine June 1918. 
S.W. Szechwan. Mu-li Mountains. Lat. 28° 12’ N. Alt. 
12,000 ft. On open rocky slopes. Shrub of 4-6 ft. Flowers 
