116 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
which without fringe is often nearly globular and infiltrated with 
an orange secretion sometimes reddening at the umbo of the 
scale, hairs and scales traceable on the dark grey or blackened 
older branches for many years. Foliage-buds very small ovoid 
blunt usually invested by one or two reduced foliage-leaves 
which are about 4 mm. long with lanceolate pointed lamina and 
vagina equally long; outer scale-leaves thinly crustaceous 
deciduous at bud-expansion rounded lepidote and puberulous 
outside and with long curled arachnoid marginal hairs spreading 
over the bud, a few straight short hairs present about the mucro- 
nulate tip ; innermost scale-leaves membranous obovate keeled 
obtuse slightly mucronate about 7 mm. long 2 mm. broad densely 
lepidote outside finely ciliate ; young leaves conduplicate con- 
volute. Leaves shortly petiolate as much as 2.5 cm. long ; 
lamina leathery narrowly oblong or lanceolate sometimes a 
little wider above the middle, about 2.2 cm. long, 6 mm. broad 
acute with a short red mucro, margin cartilaginous recurved, 
base wedge-shaped ; upper surface pale olive-green mat with a 
grooved midrib and all over persistently puberulous with soft 
short hairs which do not harden to form asperities near the 
margin, primary veins invisible ; under surface grey-white with 
a raised pink-tinted sparsely puberulous elepidote (or with an 
occasional scale) midrib, the rest of the surface on which primary 
veins do not show lepidote with small discontiguous orange- 
coloured scales having short stalk and convex swollen disk without 
fringe sunk in pits to depth of half of the disk, distance between 
scales slightly greater than or about equal to diameter of scales 
ich are some g to the sq. mm. sometimes in groups touching 
one another, epidermal papillae in intervals between scales large 
rod-like ; petiole about 3 mm. long grooved puberulous and 
lepidote. Flowers disposed in 2-3-flowered umbels which are 
axillary to the last fully developed leaves on the shoots, 3-4 
umbels forming a cluster at the end of each shoot which ends in 
a vegetative bud; bracts persistent under the flowers; outer 
bracts crustaceous rounded puberulous and ciliate outside the 
margin with long woolly spreading hairs mixed with short 
supra convexa pallide olivacea opaca ubique puberula elepidota ; subtus albo- 
puberula excepta) et Sek Peltatis discontiguis stipitatis subglobosis (sine 
instita) aurantiacis in fovei bsita ; petiolus circ. 3 mm. longus 
pallide roseus lepidotus et sateiralii ; Umbellae 2-3-fi im 
ramulorum apicem 3~—4-fasciculatae ; bracteae persistentes pilosae et lepidotae ; 
bracteolae filiformes apiceque expansae pedicellis longiores ; pedicelli rubri circ. 
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intus glaber; lobi 5 oblongo-ovales circ. 7 mm. longi 4 mm. lati extus lepidoti. 
Stamina 10 inaequalia, longissima corollam paullo superantia ; filamenta puberula. 
Discus glaber. Gynaeceum corolla longius circ. 1.5 cm. longum ; ovarium parvum 
circ. 2 mm. longum puberulum et lepidotum ; stylus glaber ruber. 
