112 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
hairs, midrib raised pink-tinted with some vestigial glands and 
cauliflower hairs but glabrescent, primary veins and ultimate 
venation showing as a very fine faintly red-tinted network ; 
petiole as much as 2.5 cm. long red-tinted grooved above glandu- 
lar like the stem. Umbels 4—6-flowered terminal; bracts and 
bracteoles early deciduous unknown ; pedicels reddened about 
2-2.5 cm. long densely glandular like the stems with long and 
short glands. Calyx red about 7 mm. long with fleshy darker- 
coloured cup about 2 mm. long densely glandular outside and 
5 elongated triangular persistent lobes about 5 mm. long rounded 
at top with a glandular margin a few hairs mixed with the glands, 
eglandular on both surfaces but with a few small white cauli- 
flower hairs. Corolla creamy white with a basal pale crimson 
blotch posteriorly and some small crimson spots openly cam- 
panulate from the base about 5 cm. long glabrous outside and 
inside ; limb broad expanded ; lobes 5 rounded as much as 2.5 
cm. long and broad emarginate. Stamens 1o shorter than 
corolla and gynaeceum unequal longest about 3.5 cm. long 
shortest about 2 cm.; filaments widened to the base glabrous 
(occasionally a hair or two). Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum a 
little shorter than the corolla ; ovary cylindric-conoid truncate 
shallowly grooved densely glandular about 5 mm. long; style 
glabrous slightly expanding at tip into a lip around the discoid 
lobulate stigma. 
N.W. Yunnan. Bei-ma-shan. Alt. 13,000 ft. Lat. 28° 12’ 
N. Open thickets and pine forests. Shrub of 6-7 ft. Flowers 
creamy white with a few crimson spots and lines towards base. 
G. Forrest. No. 13,989. June 1917. 
A large-leaved member of the Selense series producing large: 
creamy-white flowers with a red glandular calyx and corolla 
marked by a basal red blotch and small red spots spread widely 
over the posterior surface—characters which separate it in its 
series from allied forms. 
Jed Rhododendron fulvoides, Balf. f. et Forrest.* (Fulvum.) 
Shrub 6 m. high. Branches stout when a year old as much 
as 7mm. in diameter densely covered with a brown scurfy whiten- 
ing indumentum of mop-hairs more or less agglutinated and 
falling off, the older branches nearly bare of indumentum before 
* Rhododendron fulvoides, Balf. f. et Forrest—Frutex 6 m. altus. Rami 
crassi ad 7 mm. diam. indumento furfuraceo brunneo sed albicante tomentosi- 
Alabastra subglobosa. Folia petiolata ad 21 cm. longa sub anthesi deflexa ; 
vestigiis indumenti juvenilis nunc notata, costa media et venis primariis (utrin- 
