BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON, 107 
association of the two species. My overlooking Cooper’s 
specimens when dealing with the Irroratums of W. China was 
a consequence of my placing them at a first sorting amongst 
forms of Rh. arboreum. But Rh. arboreum’and Rh. Kendrichii 
assuredly belong to different phyla. The whole indumentum 
and other characters of the Arboreum series typified in Rh. 
arboreum are different from those of Rh. Kendrickii, which con- 
form with those of Rh. ivroratum, Franch. and its allies. 
Rh. Kendrickii is not common in cultivation. We have no 
plant at Edinburgh notwithstanding endeavours to obtain it. 
Nuttall’s description * is very slight, and that in the Botanical 
Magazine is derived from a cultivated plant. I therefore give | 
here for reference an account of the plant based upon Cooper’s 
Bhutan specimens :— 
Rh, Kendrickit, Nutt. in Ann. Mag. Nat. ee xii (1853), 
Io ; id. in Hook. Journ. Bot. v (1853), 3 
Rh. Kendrickit var. latifolium, Hook. Bae Mag. (1859), 
t. 5129. 
Shrub 6-8 m. high of spare habit. Branches stiff straight 
divaricate epilose about 2 mm. in diam. when a year old, reddish 
soon becoming whitish-grey and shedding the cortex. Leaf-buds 
Ovoid blunt, bud-scales rounded brown crustaceous carinate 
mucronulate ciliate glabrous or with a few dorsal hairs. Leaves 
few petiolate about 14 cm. long; lamina firm coriaceous as much 
as 13 cm. long and 3 cm. broad oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate 
acuminate ending in a tuberculate mucro, margin broadly carti- 
laginous recurved undulate slightly warted by vestiges of fallen 
glands and hairs, base narrowly cuneate ; upper surface smooth 
olive-green paler beneath, on both sides glabrous but marked by 
scars of fallen hairs and glands sometimes on under surface a few 
red glands persist, midrib often slightly reddened deeply grooved 
above raised beneath, primary veins 20 or more on each side hardly 
visible above slightly raised beneath where ultimate reticula- 
tion is conspicuous (when dry); petiole at most 1 cm. long 
wrinkled glabrous somewhat furfuraceous. Inflorescence of many 
(5 or more) flowers in a raceme, rhachis as much as 4 cm. long 
glandular and densely adpressedly tomentose the hairs greasy 
pale-coloured floccose; outer bracts rounded hooded hardly 
keeled crustaceous 1.5 cm. or more long I cm. or more 
broad, outside densely adpressedly floccose-tomentose, inside red- 
glandular with a few basal hairs and many apical hairs, more 
or less ciliate, innermost bracts ligulate or ligulate-spathulate 
obtuse or subtruncate and erose 2.5 cm. long by 6 mm. broad 
hairy outside and glandular, inside nearly glabrous, margin 
* See note on — page. 
