BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. II3 
decorticating. Foliage-buds enwrapped in a brown tomentum 
short subglobose nested amidst the leaves the last leaves a 
little smaller than the others and close up to the bud; outer 
scale-leaves almost woody from a rounded or ovate basal 
half or third acuminately tailed thick keeled and mucronate, 
intermediate crustaceous more oblong less tomentose except 
on margins, innermost somewhat membranous and _strap- 
shaped as much as 3.5 cm. long 3.5 mm. broad acute strongly 
mucronate and very tomentose about the mucro, finely ciliate 
throughout ; young leaves revolute with upper surface densely 
floccose glandular. Leaves petiolate as much as 21 cm. long ; 
lamina thickly leathery oblanceolate or elongated oboval as 
much as Ig cm. long 6 cm. broad, apex rounded or obtuse or 
subacute or shortly acuminate ending in a red tuberculate mucro, 
margin cartilaginous plane, base obtuse or broadly wedge- 
shaped ; upper surface olive-green somewhat glossy smooth 
glabrous hardly showing traces of juvenile indumentum, midri 
and primary veins (about 16 on each side) grooved; under 
surface covered with a brown coarsely granular surface of indu- 
mentum appearing as if produced by the cracking of a uniform 
layer, through the cracks and here and there where rubbed a 
paler very smooth pellicle seen, the indumentum is bistrate, the 
upper buff layer of mop-hairs or besom-hairs with long stout 
many-celled stalks crowned with a dense tuft of short pointed 
unicellular radiating branches usually curled, near to and on 
sides of midrib the stalks often very long and wavy, the mops 
often set in depressions or pits of the leaf-surface, the hairs of 
the tuft usually reddening and taking on a glandular look, the 
under stratum consists of similarly formed hairs only with very 
short or almost no stalks their branches spreading usually un- 
coloured and somewhat agglutinate to form the pellicle, midrib 
elevated clad like rest of surface, the primary veins hidden 
by indumentum ; petiole stout grooved about 2 cm. long clad 
like the stem. Flowers in solitary terminal as many as 20- 
flowered racemose umbels, rhachis up to 1.5 cm. long glabrous ; 
secus ad 16) sulcatis; subtus brunnea crasse granulosa indumento bistrato e 
pilis longis et brevibus in modum peniculi capitatim-floccosi constructis vestita ; 
rminale : hi a: 
globosa ; bracteae yas ee SRE eR interiores sericeae ; brac- 
longi. Calyx minutus ie: Imm. : oman vix 5~denticulatus. Corolla 
us. 
corollam subaequans ; ovarium angustum ad 7 mm. longum truncatum glaberri- 
mum ; stylus glaber. 
