BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. IIg 
breviora antheris atro-purpureis circ. 3 mm. longis breviora 
circ. 2 cm. longa antheris circ. 2.5 mm. longis, filamentis 
kermesinis basi vix dilatatis glabris. Discus circ. 1.3 mm. 
longus glaber. Gynaeceum circ. 3-5 cm. longum corollam sub- 
aequans ; ovarium parvum circ. 4 mm. longum sulcatum in- 
dumento crasso tomentoso fulvo pilorum scopiformium ascen- 
dentium involutum; stylus ruber glaber sub stigmate haud 
€xpansus ; stigma parvum lobulatum stylo haud latius. 
Species ex affinitate Rh. lanati, Hook. f. corolla kermesina 
Staminibusque glabris facile distinguenda. 
E. Upper Burma. Hpimaw. On open hillsides above the 
Pass, II,000-12,000 ft. Scraggy tree 1ro-15 ft. Flowers 
crimson. F. Kingdon Ward. No. 1567. 19th May 1914. 
This is one of these interesting forms which Mr. Kingdon 
Ward has brought from East Upper Burma, carrying the types 
of East Himalayan rhododendrons farther eastward. The 
affinity of Rh. mallotum, Balf. f. et Ward is with the Sikkim 
and Bhutan Rh. lanatum, Hook. f. Ward’s plant may be 
spoken of as a crimson-flowered Rh. lanatum. The two species 
are alike in their very thick persistent indumentum, the hairs 
of which in Rh. lanatum are rather tree-like (dendriform) than 
besom-like (scopiform) as they are in Rh. mallotum, and the 
hair-branches of Rh. lanatum are also slenderer, curl more, and 
interlock, are not stiff erect and patent. In addition to its 
yellow corolla, the densely villous staminal filaments give a 
character separating Rh. lanatum. 
Rhododendron manipurense, Balf. f. et Watt. 
Rh. Maddeni var. obtusifolium, Hutchinson in Bot. Mag. 
(1908), t. 8212. iS 
Frutex epilosus multiramosus tortuosus. Rami hornotini 
furfuraceo-lepidoti squamis imbricatis, basi perulis extimis 
aggregatis alabastrorum cincti, sursum perulis intimis inter se 
distantibus induti, annotini circ. 6 mm. diam. atro-rubentes 
lato-spathulatae circ. 2 cm. longae 5 mm. latae ; folia juvenilia 
convoluta utrinque cum petiolo imbricatim argenteo-lepidota. 
Folia petiolata ad 20 cm. longa ; lamina crasse coriacea oblonga 
vel elliptico-oblonga ad 18 cm. longa et 8 cm. lata apice obtusa 
vel acutiuscula nunc subrotundata tuberculo-mucronata margine 
cartilaginea vix revoluta basi attenuata obtusa vel sub-cuneata 
supra laete viridis nitens nunc rubiginoso-tincta venulosa costa 
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media sulcata venis primariis utrinsecus ad 12 haud conspicuis 
