II4 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
inflorescence-bud globose; outer bracts crustaceous brown 
rotundate more or less glandular and floccose outside; inner 
bracts oblong broadly spathulate densely silky outside ;_ brac- 
teoles linear expanded into a spoon-shaped tip, about I cm. long, 
shortly pilose below at top densely pilose and hair-crested ; 
pedicel about 2 cm. long glabrous. Calyx saucer-shaped very 
small about 1 mm. long most glabrous its margin undulate and 
showing obscurely 5 teeth or semilunate lobes. Corolla white 
flushed rose with a large crimson basal blotch and a few spots 
or lines spreading from it campanulate about 3 cm. long glabrous 
outside and inside expanding into a 5-lobed open limb ; lobes 
rounded about 1.3 cm. long 2 cm. broad emarginate. Stamens 
Io unequal all shorter than corolla and gynaeceum ; longest 
about 2.3 cm. long, shortest about 1.3 cm. long ; filaments slightly 
dilated downwards, at the base clad with short vesicular hairs 
and stalked glands; anthers about 2 mm. long. Disk glabrous 
or most sparsely puberulous. Gynaeceum about 3 cm. long 
equalling corolla ; ovary thin elongated 7 mm. long I.5 mm. in 
diameter truncate slightly grooved most glabrous; style 
glabrous expanded at top into a short lip below the discoid 
lobulate stigma. Capsule sickle-shaped long and thin as much 
as 3.5 cm. long 4 mm. in diameter glabrous, style often persistent, 
dehiscing from apex by 5 valves. Seed pale brown oblong 
flattened striate about 2.5 mm. long .75 mm. broad with a narrow 
arillar wing on one side usually and a funicular and chalazal crest. 
N.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 10’ N. 
Alt. 11,000 ft. In mixed thickets and amongst rocks. Shrub 
of 6-10 ft. In fruit. G. Forrest. No. 13,400. Sept. 1gr4. 
N.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 10’ N. 
Alt. 11,000 ft. In open forests. Shrub of 15 ft. G. Forrest. 
No. 13,556. Oct.1914. [Foliage only.] 
S.E. Tibet. Tsarong. Ka-gwr-pw, Mekong-Salween divide. 
Lat. 28° 25’ N. In rhododendron thickets. Shrub of ro ft. 
Infruit. G. Forrest. No. 14,988. Oct. 1917. 
S.E.Tibet. Tsarong. On Ka-gwr-pw, Mekong-Salween divide. 
Lat. 28°25’ N. Alt. 12,000 ft. In open thickets. Shrub of 6-9 ft. 
Flowers rose? In fruit. G. Forrest. No. 14,499. July 1917. 
S.E. Tibet. Tsarong. G. Forrest. No. 15,278. Nov. 
1917. Duplicate in fruit ? 
Yunnan. [Without precise locality.} G. Forrest. No. 
16,140. Nov. 1917. Duplicate in fruit. 
Eastern N.W. Yunnan. Mountains N.E. of Chungtien. 
Lat. 28° N. Alt. 13,000 ft. In rhododendron thickets. Shrub 
of g-12 ft. Flowers creamy rose with a few crimson markings and 
blotch of deep crimson. G. Forrest. No. 16,515. July 1918. 
S.E. Tibet. Tsarong. On Doker-la, Mekong -Salween 
