102 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
ya Rhododendron cymbomorphum,* Balf.f.et Forrest.= (Souliei.) 
Virgate shrub as much as 2.5 m. high. Branches slender 
straight when a year old about 2 mm. in diameter. Young 
branches dark purple glandular the glands en ovoid 
red, persisting (their bases only) as small reddish warts on the 
older pale buff-coloured twigs. Foliage-buds elongated narrow 
Paton pointed ; outer scale-leaves crustaceous rounded often 
split at apex sometimes with a short point, epilose outside or 
with a few greasy hairs, margin sparsely ciliate with greasy hairs 
more at the top, followed by more oblong blunt scale-leaves ; 
innermost scale-leaves carried up on elongating axis nearly oblong 
or oblanceolate or lanceolate as much as 4 cm. long 6 mm 
broad at middle, acute or acuminate narrowed downwards into 
a distinct petiole, red-glandular at base outside over petiole and 
along midrib, finely sparingly ciliate; young leaves revolute 
in bud glabrous above, below densely clad with short erect 
unbranched greasy orange or white hairs, petiole glandular. 
Leaves petiolate as much as 11.5 cm. long 4—5 produced each 
year towards end of twig sometimes one or two lower down not 
persisting over second year ; lamina thin of parchment consist- 
ence oblong-oval or oblong as much as 9g cm. long 4 cm. broad, 
broadly obtuse at apex ending in a shortly beaked tuberculate 
red mucro, margin flat narrowly cartilaginous and _ slightly 
pink-tinted, base truncate or rounded or subcordulate ; upper 
surface olive-green mat finely shagreened glabrous, midrib 
grooved glabrous, primary veins some I2-15 on each side; 
under surface paler grey-green clad all over with vestiges of 
short greasy juvenile hairs often orange-coloured, midrib raised 
pink glabrous, primary veins and ultimate venation submerged 
* x0uBoc, cup—in allusion to form of coro 
} Rhododendron cymbomorphum, Balf. f. et oerest: —Frutex ad 2.5 m. altus. 
Rami tenues stricti (annotini circ. 2 mm. diam.), juveniles port 5 RS 
vetustiores pallide fulvi glanduloso-punctulati. Alabastra fusiformia; perulae 
extimae crustaceae extus epilosae margine im sebaceo-ciliatae ; intim 
oblongo-lanceolatae vel oblanceolatae nein! acutae basi rubro-glandulosae 
Fo longa petiolata ; | chartacea oblongo-ovalis vel oblonga 
patentes glandulosi sub calyce expansi. Calyx 5-lobus extus glandulosus ; lobi 
oblongi apice rotundati. Corolla alba vel flava emaculata aperte cupulari- 
campanulata circ. 4 cm. longa utrinque glabra 5-loba; lobi lati circ. 2 cm. longi 
filamenta ea eo Discus glaber. Gynaeceum corolla paullo brevius ; 
Ovarium circ. mm. longum conoideum sulcatum truncatum dense rubro- 
glandulosum ; vate ad medium pce rubris aurantiaco-stipitatis vestitus. 
