92 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
wards sparingly puberulous for a short distance above the base. 
Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum a little shorter than corolla on upper 
side about 4 cm. long ; ovary ovoid-truncate 15-locular slightly 
curved grooved eglandular densely tomentose with pink tinted 
indumentum of fasciate hairs; style stout glabrous exceeding 
the stamens ending in a broad lobulate stigma. Capsule slightly 
curved oblong-ovoid about 3.5 cm. long 1 cm. broad more or 
less clad with cinnamon-coloured indumentum of orange-coloured 
fasciate hairs, dehiscing by 12-15 single or a less number of 
compound (2-4) valves (or these intermixed) leaving 12-15 
placentas on the axis. Seeds pale-brown flattened oblong or 
oval or elliptic or oboval as much as 3 mm. long 1.5 mm. across 
with a conspicuous lateral arillate wing, a broad fringed mem- 
branous arillar chalazal crest and a smaller micropylar one. 
Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° 20’ N. 
Alt. 11,000-12,000 ft. Open situations and in Rhododendron 
forest. Shrub of 15-20 ft. Flowers fleshy, pale yellow flushed 
rose towards base. G. Forrest. No. 15,857. July 1917. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° 30’ N. 
Alt. 11,000 ft. In open thickets. Shrub of 6-10 ft. Flowers 
. pale yellow with crimson at base. G. Forrest. No. 15,898. 
June 1917. 
Yunnan. [Without precise locality.} Duplicate in fruit. 
Oct. 1917. G. Forrest. No. 15,982. 
N.E. Upper Burma. Hpimaw Pass. Alt. 9500-10,500 ft. 
Low many-branched red-barked tree with thick trusses of dead 
creamy-white flowers without scent. Just coming out April 20. 
One of the prevailing rhododendrons as you near the Pass. 
R. Farrer. No. 863. April 20, 1910. 
N.E. Upper Burma. Ridge along Laktang (Kang Fang route). 
Alt. gooo-11,000 ft. The commonest rhododendron between go00 
and 11,000 ft. Gnarled much-branched tree up to 20 or 25 ft. 
high, or bushy shrub of ro-15 ft. at 10,000 ft. or higher. Bark 
red, hanging in flakes. Flowers pale cream with small purple 
blotch at base of corolla which is almost regular. The flower is 
very like No. 3061 [Rh. sidereum], but not so yellow. The leaves 
are quite different, being rusty red underneath with thick indu- 
mentum. F. Kingdon Ward. No. 3101. May 27, 1919. 
A fine species of the Falconeri series allied to Rh. Falconeri, 
Hook. f. It is the nearest approach to Rh. Falconeri amongst 
the Chinese species, but is altogether a smaller plant than the 
Himalayan species. It differs in one conspicuous character—it 
has no glands on the ovary or style. These glands are most 
characteristic of Rh. Falconeri and its ally Rh. eximium, Nutt. 
In the latter they form the only cover to the ovary in Rh. 
Falconert, they are always intermixed with stalked branched 
