BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 109 
becoming grey before decorticating in subsequent years. No 
prominent cluster of buds at end of shoots, terminal foliage- 
bud often alone conspicuous, axils of adjacent leaves usually 
without large buds, few foliage-buds under the inflorescence 
elongating ; outer scale-leaves crustaceous brown rounded to 
ovate keeled and more or less mucronate, lepidote and wax- 
glaucous on back, margin more or less ciliate ; inner scale-leaves 
membranous brown oblong-spathulate about 1.2 cm. long one- 
nerved obtuse or rounded or truncate lepidote on back sparingly 
ciliate and setulose on margin top more densely ciliate ; juvenile 
leaves conduplicate-convolute glabrous on upper surface except- 
ing puberulous midrib, lepidote beneath with white seal-like 
scales and puberulous along midrib and primary veins, margin 
ciliate and setulose. Leaves petiolate as much as 7.5 cm. long ; 
lamina thinly leathery oval or oboval as much as 7 cm. long 
3 cm. broad, shortly acuminate at apex with a pronounced 
stylar apiculus ending in a red tuberculate hydathode, margin 
cartilaginous notched at the insertions of fallen setae and hairs, 
some setulae ~~ persist for a time towards the base, base obtuse; 
upper surface opaque pale green elepidote, midrib grooved 
puberulous aaiie reddened, primary veins about 10 on each 
side more or less hidden ; under surface wax-white covered all 
over with epidermal wax-bearing papillae, discontiguously lepi- 
dote the brown scales with convex umbo and equally broad 
fringe sometimes overlapped by the wax papillae, distance 
between the scales greater than diameter of scales which are 
about 2 in a square mm., midrib raised puberulous sparingly 
lepidote, primary veins very slightly raised and puberulous ; 
petiole about 5 mm. long red-tinted grooved glaucous and 
puberulous and lepidote sometimes with a few setae. In- 
florescence a 3—4-flowered umbel somewhat immersed within the 
end-leaves of the shoot; bracts early deciduous, unknown ; 
bracteoles linear throughout or expanded into a spathulate top 
over 1 cm. long slightly longer than pedicel, only slightly hairy 
throughout and sparingly lepidote on back at top where is a 
breviter acuminata apiculata, margine cartilaginea minute crenulata nunc plus 
puberula ; petiolus ad 5 mm. longus sulcatus puberulus glaucus nunc setulosus. 
Flores in umbellas 3—4-floras dispositi; bracteolae pedicellis longiores ; pedicelli 
sparsim lepidoti glauci epilosi vix 1 cm. longi. Calyx brevis 1.5 mm. longus lobis 
extus puberula et lepidota ; lobi 5 elliptici vel ovales circ. 1.7 cm. longi 2 cm. lati 
subaequales patentes tamina ro inaequalia corolla breviora ; filamenta 
puberula. Discus puberulus. Gynaeceum corolla brevius staminibus longius ; 
ovarium conoideum truncatum lepidotum ad 4 mm. longum; stylus glaber sub 
stigmate lobulato discoideo claviformis. 
