BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. gl 
mucro in the sinus or in smaller leaves somewhat obtuse and 
ending in a long projecting mucro, margin broadly cartilaginous 
somewhat undulate, base obtuse or subtruncate or even cordu- 
late; upper surface dark green rugulose and somewhat 
shagreened more or less splatched with dirty grey vestiges of 
a thin juvenile coating of cobwebbed hairs, midrib raised at 
base depressed upwards always clad with grey cobwebbed hairs, 
primary veins some 12 on each side slightly depressed spreading 
outwards at a right angle or slightly obtuse angle ; under sur- 
face cinnamon-coloured clad all over (the raised midrib and 
hardly visible veins included) with a dense bistrate persistent 
indumentum, upper stratum cinnamon-colour persistent of 
narrow funnel-shaped cup-hairs easily separable each with short 
multicellular stalk the wall of cells elongated in the axis of the 
cup and with thicker ridges from which as well as from the 
margin proceed many thick-walled branches which interlace and 
give a woolly character to the whole surface, under stratum 
persistent always concealed by upper stratum white of rosette- 
hairs with very short stalks, the cells of the hairs thin-walled 
vesicular agglutinated ; petiole not bearded stout as much as 3 cm, 
long 6 mm. in diameter gradually passing into the ridged midrib 
above and below cylindric not grooved upper side with white 
cobwebbed hairs under surface cinnamon-coloured often glab- 
rescent above. Inflorescence-bud globose. Inflorescence a race- 
mose umbel of 15 or more flowers, rhachis stout more or less 
cinnamon-tomentose ; outermost sterile bracts a few like those 
of foliage-buds, followed by many sterile bracts rounded to ovate 
often with thinner marginal wing all more or less sticky and 
remaining adherent as flowers open; inner fertile bracts thin 
leathery oblong-obovate about 2.5 cm. long I cm. broad rounded 
at top and mucronate, inside finely silky towards top, outside 
densely and coarsely silky; bracteoles linear barely 1 cm. long 
shorter than pedicel, densely adpressedly hairy outside, hair- 
crested ; pedicels stout straight somewhat unequal as much as 
2.5 cm. long elongating in fruit to 3.5 cm., swollen at the oblique 
top below the flower, tomentose with long branching thin-walled 
intricately interwoven hairs, no cup-hairs. Calyx only indi- 
cated by some tomentose short points sharp or blunt. Corolla 
fleshy pale yellow with crimson or rose flush at base, campanu- 
late oblique, posterior side arched and somewhat ventricose 
longer as much as 4.5 cm. long, hardly pouched at base 8-lobed ; 
lobes rounded imbricate usually emarginate often slightly crenu- 
late about 1 cm. long 1.8 cm. broad, glabrous outside and inside. 
Stamens 16 slightly unequal shorter than corolla-tube and 
gynaeceum longest about 2.5 cm. long shortest about 1.5 cm. 
long ; anthers broad about 3 mm. long ; filaments dilated down- 
