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128 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
corolla of Rh. croceum nor the nearly sessile and sessile glands 
of the ovary of Rh. Wardit. 
The plant in unripe fruit gathered by Forrest in 1914 on the 
Kari Pass and referred to Rh. croceum * may perhaps be this 
species. 
Rhododendron Macabeanum,; Watt MS.t (Grande.) 
Tree as much as 15 m. high with short stem and brown bark 
and bearing twisted more or less whorled ascending branches 
forming a crowded dome. Branches thick when a year old 
about 7.5 mm. in diameter densely tomentose with a chestnut- 
brown indumentum, eglandular. Foliage-buds large oblong with 
imbricate scales as is typical of the Grande series ; scale-leaves 
eglandular the outermost ovate acuminate-caudate more or less 
tomentose; intermediate rounded emarginate without tomentum; 
ten ie Sad Actes or reddish. Leaves large petiolate 
mu s 30 cm. long in rosettes of 4-5 at end of branches ; 
esata thickly veatilery oblong-elliptic or somewhat rounded as 
much as 27 cm. long 18 cm. broad, apex rounded emarginate 
with a stiff mucro, margin cartilaginous somewhat flat, towards 
the base narrowed somewhat truncately obtuse ; upper surface 
dark green shagreened with a grooved midrib and about 14 
impressed primary veins on each side, glabrous or sprinkled with 
vestiges of juvenile tomentum ; under surface at first white or 
greyish-white somewhat glossy clad with a compact smooth 
* Notes: R-B.G, Edinis x eo , 95- 
+ See p. 129 for explanatio 
t Rhododendron Haden Watt MS.—Arbor ad 15 m. alta trunco brevi 
corticeque brunneo. Ramuli crassi annotini circ. 7.5 mm. diam. dense spadiceo- 
tomentosi eglandulosi. Alabastra magna oblonga eglandulosa. Folia magna 
petiolata ad 30 cm. longa; lamina crasse coriacea oblongo-elliptica vel subrotun- 
Gory 
indumen strato uniformi PTR laevi subnitente oo postea opaca saepe 
bra neae. ae 
ovarium pilis albidis fasciatis compactis tomentosum; stylus glaber tenuis ; 
stigma coccineum magnum discoideum undulatum. Capsula leviter curvata ad 
4 cm. longa 1.5 cm. lata plus minusve tomentosa 
