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92 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
quasi papillis inter alias minores distributis ; petiolus ad 1 cm. 
longus crassus lepidoto-furfuraceus. Flores pauci I-2 in um- 
bellam veram terminalem dispositi, inflorescentiae rhachi lepi- 
dota; bracteae et bracteolae mox deciduae; pedicelli crassi 
decurvi circ. 6 mm. longi purpurei plus minusve furfuraceo- 
lepidoti squamis magnis albidis vel umbone rufescentibus. Calyx 
pro flore magnus ad Ir cm. longus, cupula subcarnosula circ. 
2.5 mm. longa dense furfuraceo-lepidota squamis rufescentibus, 
lobis 5 oblongis ad 7.5 mm. longis et 4 mm. latis obtusis mem- 
branaceis virescentibus vel subrubris intus glabris extus lepidotis 
margine leviter ciliatis. Corolla carnosula rubra vel intus alba 
et extus pallide rosea circ. 2 cm. longa subrotata extus ubique 
lepidota, tubo lato circ. 8 mm. longo fauce dense villoso in 
limbum patentem expanso, limbi disco circ. 2 mm. lato, lobis 
5 ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis apice rotundatis circ. I cm 
longis et 8 mm. latis, Stamina 14 inaequalia e tubo corollae 
exserta longiora circ. 1.5 cm. longa breviora circ. I cm. longa, 
antheris brunneis magnis ad 4 mm. longis, filamentis crassis 
carnosulis basi latioribus supra basim glabram intra tubum 
corollinum dense villosis. Discus pubescens. Ovarium circ. 
4 mm. longum petasiforme squamis albidis et subroseis dense 
lepidotum ; stylus validus circ. I cm. longus stamina sub- 
aequans deflexus glaber sub stigmate depresso discoideo paullo 
expansus quare labium cingens evenit. 
Species Rh. camelliaefloro, Hook. f. affinis corollae fauce 
dense villosa certe distincta. 
Bhutan. Ridang, Angduphorang. Alt. gooo ft. Small bush. 
Epiphyte on big trees in moss. Flowers red. R. E. Cooper. 
No. 3959. 8.6.15. 
Bhutan. Vatola Ridge, Tongsa. Alt. gooo-10,000 ft. 
Epiphytic bush 3-4 ft. on Abies. Flowers open, white inside, 
pink outside. R.E. Cooper. No. 4083. 1.7.15. 
A species which appears to resemble closely Rh. camelliae- 
florum, Hook. f., but the rose or red corolla villous at the throat 
is a sufficiently distinctive mark of difference. Nuttall de- 
scribed * briefly two species—Rh. sparsiflorum and Rh. lucidum 
—upon imperfect material collected by Booth in Bhutan which 
he regarded as nearly allied to Rh. camelliaeflorum. Rh. sparst- 
florwm is treated as a synonym of Rh. camelliaeflorum by C. B. 
Clarke,j who mentions (p. 475) Rh. lucidum as an imperfect y 
known species. There is the possibility that Cooper’s plant 
may be one or other of Nuttall’s species, but there is no certainty, 
for Nuttall’s descriptions were taken from specimens not in 
flower and the flower character is a dominant one in Rh. Cooperi. 
* ; cs 
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