BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 133 
one or two at each branching annual growths I dm. more or 
less in length about 2 mm. in diameter when a year old glabrous, 
with white-grey bark not thickening much for some years dis- 
tinctly nodulose at end of each year’s growth. Foliage-buds 
elongated narrowly ovoid pointed with many scale-leaves, the 
outer short ovate imbricate each slightly puberulous on back 
and with a slightly denticulate margin the denticules sometimes 
glandular-mucronulate and densely white puberulous around 
the mucro, intermediate scale-leaves elongated oblong acute, 
innermost scale-leaves dark brown submembranous narrowly 
elongated lanceolate acuminate as much as 3 cm. long 6 mm. 
broad slightly puberulous outside the margin ciliate at base 
then towards apex denticulate and at tip densely clad with inter- 
woven hairs often nearly glabrous ; young leaves revolute most 
glabrous. Leaves petiolate as much as 15 cm. long in a cluster 
of 5~7 at the end of the naked annual growth ; lamina of parch- 
ment consistence lanceolate acuminate as much as 13 cm. long 
4 cm. broad, terminated by an apiculate mucro, margin white 
finely cartilaginous, base cuneate ; upper surface bright green 
glossy most glabrous midrib grooved slightly pink-tinted, 
primary veins many pinnately disposed as many as 16 on each 
side ; under surface paler green mat most glabrous the pink- 
tinted midrib prominent the primary veins very slightly raised ; 
petiole about 1 cm. long grooved pink-tinted most glabrous. 
Flowers strongly fragrant arranged in a fascicle of 1—flowered 
inflorescences at end of shoot surrounding a terminal vegetative 
bud, each partial inflorescence axillary the pedicel of its flower 
enclosed during flowering by the persistent scale-leaves of the 
flower-bud and by its persistent prophylls ; flower-bud slightly 
sticky elongated pointed like the vegetative bud; outermost 
sterile bracts somewhat crustaceous ovate or ovate-rounded 
nodulosis. Alabastra elongata acuta pluri-perulata subglutinosa. Folia petio- 
lata ad 15 cm. longa ad apicem ramulorum 5~7-aggregata; lamina pergamerrtacea 
lanceolata acuminata ad 13 cm. longa 4 cm. lata mucronata, margine albo-cartila- 
ginea, basi cuneata; supra laetevirens nitens glaberrima costa media sulcata ; 
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foliorum ad apicem ramulorum ala sepoooans vege tativum _eepesiere ina. 
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cincta : bracteae extimae perulis similes striatae puberulae , intimae submem 
branaceae sh ea facie ultra 2 cm. longae acutae cucullatae margine 
puberula. Discus viridis glaber. Gynaeceum corollam subaequans; ovarium 
tenue cylindricum sursum paullo attenuatum truncatum glabrum circ. I cm. 
longum ; stylus glaber; stigma discoideum latum lobulatum. 
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