BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. IOL 
and rosulate hairs with broad branches, the whole forming an 
agglutinate crustaceous persistent smooth somewhat glossy layer, 
midrib very prominent brownish or blackish-purple glabrescent, 
primary veins very prominent ribs more or less glabrescent. 
Inflorescence a compact racemose umbel of some 15 flowers with 
a short rhachis barely 2 cm. long clad with thin pellicle of indu- 
mentum ; inflorescence-bud globose; outer sterile bracts rotun- 
date to ovate thick coriaceous with thinner margins mucronate 
viscid, inner fertile bracts oblong spathulate or obovate-spathulate 
or spathulate about 3 cm. long 1.5 cm. broad sericeous inside 
and outside ; bracteoles short linear about 5 mm. long or a little 
more pilose and hair-crested ; pedicels short about 2 cm. long 
enwrapped in a thin indumentum of long branched somewhat 
agglutinate hairs slightly expanded under the calyx and oblique 
to the flower. Calyx minute clad like the pedicel very shortly 
toothed. Corolla campanulate oblique with a small red basal 
blotch and a few spots posteriorly, about 4.5 cm. long on pos- 
terior side, glabrous inside and outside hardly gibbous at the 
base 8-lobed ; lobes imbricate about I cm. long 1.5 cm. broad 
emarginate. Stamens 16 unequal shorter than corolla and 
gynaeceum, longest about 3.5 cm. long shortest about 2.5 cm. ; 
filaments glabrous; anthers oblong about 3 mm. long. Disk 
glabrous. Gynaeceum a little shorter than corolla; ovary 
oblong-ovoid truncate 1o-locular grooved densely clad with a 
pink tomentum of fasciate hairs with stout long stalks and 
erect branches ; style glabrous stout slightly club-shaped below 
the discoid broad lobulate stigma. Capsule curved as much as 
4 cm. long over I cm. in diameter more or less tomentose with 
orange-coloured fasciate hairs with stout stalks and short erect 
branches. Seeds flat brown about 2.5 mm. long I mm. across 
with a narrow lateral aril-wing, a large chalazal membranous 
crest, and trace of a funicular fringe. 
Western N.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 
12’ N. Alt. 11,000-12,000 ft. Duplicate of 1917. G. Forrest. 
No. 16,561. June 1918. 
Yunnan. [Without precise locality.] Duplicate of F. No. 
In fruit. G. Forrest. No. 17,420. Oct. 1918. 
Plant of the Grande series, a near ally of Rh. praestans, 
Balf. f. et W. W. Sm. It is a smaller-leaved species with the 
primary veins coming off and ascending at about half a right 
angle from the midrib, and the indumentum is almost persistently 
grey in tint. The flowers of its compact trusses have much 
shorter pedicels and the ovary is consistently 10o-chambered in 
contrast to the 8-chambered ovary of Rh. praestans. As in 
Rh. praestans the leaves can hardly be described as petiolate. 
The lamina extends right to the point of insertion of the leaf. 
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