134 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
grey-brown longitudinally striate obtuse or acute densely 
puberulous outside, intermediate elongated oblong or oval, 
innermost membranous obovate-spathulate acute over 2 cm. 
long broader above about 7 mm. across and there cucullate 
puberulous outside, margin denticulate and glandular and with 
“white hair-cilia at top ; bracteoles persistent as long as the inner- 
most bracts membranous narrowly lanceolate above on a strap- 
shaped stalk half as long as whole bracteole, glandular denticulate 
in upper half and shortly hair-crested; pedicels stout thick 
about 2.5 cm. long most glabrous dark green not dilated below 
the calyx. Calyx fleshy dark-coloured glabrous not I cm. long 
with an undulate lip. Corolla fleshy lilac-pink with green 
blotch posteriorly as much as 6.5 cm. long with a long funnel- 
shaped tube half the length of the corolla expanding into a con- 
cave more open hardly spreading 5-lobed limb, glabrous both 
outside and inside ; lobes of the limb broad rounded as much as 
3 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad. Stamens Io unequal aggregated 
around the style slightly longer than the narrow portion of corolla- 
tube ; filaments shortly puberulous towards the base. Disk 
dark green glabrous. Gynaeceum about as long as the corolla ; 
ovary thin dark green about 1 cm. long cylindric but narrowed 
to the truncate top glabrous; style long glabrous tip upward 
turned ending in a broad discoid lobulate stigma. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° N. Alt. 
10,000 ft. In dense mixed and pine forest. Shrub of 12-20 ft. 
Flowers fleshy, white, flushed rose slightly exterior, interior 
lower base green ; strongly fragrant. G. Forrest. No. 16,III. 
April 1918. : 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° N. Alt. 
gooo ft. In thickets and mixed forests. Shrub of 8-16 ft. 
Flowers fragrant, soft purplish-rose, deepest in bud, with tints 
of carmine in it and with a aherrmon ist blotch on under side 
interior towards base. G. Forrest. No. 17,819. 
W. Yunnan. Western flank of fhe N’Maikha-Salween 
divide. Lat. 26° N. Alt. go00-10,000 ft. In open thickets. 
Flowers rose, tube very deep purple blotched yellowish-green, 
fragrant. G. Forrest. No. 17,832. 
N.E. Burma. Hpyepatt Pass. Langyang Pass. Hpimaw. 
Alt. 7500 ft. Open places of the forest. Forms a fine tree with 
a bare bold bole like a Scots pine but red with flaking bark. 
Can attain 40 ft. with diameter of 15 inches. Very floriferous in 
solid rounded masses of blossoms in full beauty at Hpimaw by 
April 6. Flowers very pale lilac pink with deeper centre and 
brownish tinge in throat of upper segment, and intensely fragrant. 
Purpled exterior of tube showing through. R. Farrer. No. 8or. 
April 6, 1919. 
