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108 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON., 
obscurely ciliate; bracteoles thread-like about I cm. long 
adpressedly hairy longer than pedicel ; pedicel very short about 
5 mm. long more or less pubescent with floccose greasy often 
reddish hairs. Calyx very minute about 1.5 mm. long a few 
floccose greasy hairs outside, lobes half its length triangular 
fleshy red with a few short greasy cilia. Corolla tubular-cam- 
panulate about 3 cm. long pink red-spotted including both 
stamens and style, fleshy, glabrous outside and inside 5-gibbous 
and retuse with septal infolding of petals between glandular 
areas of base of corolla-tube, lobes broad shallowly or deeply 
emarginate crenulate about 7 mm. long by 1.8 cm. broad. 
Stamens ro (11) shorter than corolla unequal, longest 2.2 cm. 
long with anthers (? purple) 2 mm. long, shortest about 1.3 cm. 
long with anthers 1.5 mm. long ; filaments thin not widened to 
base, glabrous. Gynaeceum about 2.5 cm. long, longer than 
stamens, shorter than corolla ; ovary narrow cylindrico-conoid 
grooved about 5 mm. long by 1.75 mm. broad sparingly clad 
with floccose greasy often reddened hairs; style glabrous thin 
not swollen at the point on which sits a much lobulate stigma 
not broader than style. Capsule brown slightly warted all over 
and shallowly grooved about 3 cm. long and 3 mm. in diam. 
crescentically curved dehiscing by 5 valves from apex. Only 
unripe seed seen. 
Bhutan. Kyertsa Pumthang. Alt. gooo ft. 15-20 ft. 
bush, spare habit under mixed moist forest :—in dried flowers 
and fruit. Clay soil. Flowers said to be pink, red spots. 
R. E. Cooper. No. 4086. 1.7.15. 
Bhutan. Pima Kurted. Alt. 7000 ft. 25 ft. shrub, fruit 
only. Mixed forest. R. E. Cooper. No. 4160. 23.7.15. : 
Bhutan. Pumthang. Alt. go00 ft. 15-20 ft. bush under 
Picea in clayey soil. R. E. Cooper. No. 4978. -.9.15. 
Rhododendron Fittianum, Balf. f. 
Frutex parvus sempervirens aromaticus. Ramuli juveniles 
saepe virgati a basi foliati pallide virides lepidoti squamis dis- 
contiguis peltatis saepe perspicue stipitatis. Folia petiolata ad 
3.5 cm. longa ; lamina elliptico-oblonga ad 3 cm. longa 0.5 cm. 
lata coriacea subcrassa obtusa breviter mucronulata margine 
tenuis paullo recurva basi obtusa, supra convexa atro-viridis sed 
indumento paulum griseo vel subfulvo squamarum peltatarum 
superficialium induta Squamis ex umbone lato et instita hori- 
zontali constructis primo albidis deinde secretione fulva vel 
rufa impletis costa media sulcata venis primariis utrinsecus 
ad 7 occultis, infra pallidior flavido-viridis concava costa media 
et venis primariis elevatis ubique squamis peltatis uniformibus 
fere contiguis deinde aurantiacis vestita; petiolus circ, 5 mm. 
