154 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
long ; lamina ovate lanceolate, as much as 10.5 cm. long by 5 cm. 
broad, narrowed to the tip where is a red hydathodal conspicuous 
mucro, margin recurved, base obtuse or somewhat rounded ; 
upper surface dark green somewhat glossy midrib grooved and 
lined with branched hairs, primary veins about 12 on each 
side of midrib slightly grooved, surface otherwise smooth and 
glabrous ; under surface bright rusty-red altogether covered 
by thick wiry bistrate indumentum of long-branched thick-walled 
fibril-like curled interlocking hairs, shorter stalked glands are 
mixed with the hairs, venation completely hidden; petiole 
short and thick 1-1.5 cm. long by 5 mm. in diam., clad with 
indumentum like leaf under-surface. Inflorescence a shortly 
racemose umbel of 7-10 flowers, rhachis some 4 mm. long, red- 
glandular rufously hairy; outermost sterile bracts rounded 
base amplexicaul about 9 mm. long and broad nearly glabrous 
inside, outside enveloped in thick rufous indumentum, caudate, 
tail nearly twice the length of the base and like it enveloped 
in rufous indumentum, eglandular, inner fertile bracts oblong 
spathulate as much as 2.5 cm. long I cm. wide at top, longer 
than pedicels somewhat truncate and apiculate, on both sides 
clad with rufous or whitish adpressed branched interlocking 
hairs, no glands; bracteoles clavately filiform rufous tapered 
to a point, densely clad with adpressed hairs with some stalked 
glands at the tip, much shorter than pedicels about r cm. long ; 
pedicels stout about 1.7 cm. long 2 mm. diam. completely en- 
closed in a hair-indumentum like the leaf under-side, intermixed 
with crimson long-stalked clavate glands. Calyx about I cm. 
long cut to near base or only to beyond the middle into 5 slightly 
unequal translucent lobes ; tube cupular outside rufously lanate 
and densely glandular, the red glands stalked clavate; lobes 
oblong obtuse membranous, as much as 5 mm. broad, with 
flabellate venation, outside rufously lanate and red glandular 
particularly at the base, margin fringed with stalked clavate red 
glands. Corolla about 4 cm. long or a little more fleshy tubular- 
campanulate rose or reddish abundantly spotted crimson on 
posterior side; tube outside glabrous save for an occasional 
red gland, inside pubescent and glandular; lobes 5 sub- 
patent rounded about 1.5 cm. long by 2.5 cm. broad crenu- 
late emarginate. Stamens 10 unequal, longest about 2.5 cm. 
long, shortest about 1.5 cm. long ; anthers about 2.5 mm. long ; 
filaments much flattened and widened towards base, densely 
pubescent to above the ovary and even to just below the anther. 
Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum about 3 cm. long; ovary about 
4.5 mm. long thick somewhat ovoid grooved densely clad with 
rufous long-branched fibril-like hairs and many long-stalked 
red glands all more or less adpressed ; style at very base with 
