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138 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
between them are, however, many and the more prominent 
are tabulated here :— 
Rh. Meddianum., Rh. eclecteum. 
Young stems eglandular Young stems glandular. 
Foliage-buds not nest-buds not Foliage- buds nest - buds very 
sticky inside, perulae ciliate. sticky inside, perulae eciliate. 
on Range more oval and Foliage-leaves obovate (pear out- 
long not markedly ble line) occasionally oblong, cor- 
Ay a or rounded at bas dulate at base. 
Inflorescence a 5 oy flowered um- Inflorescence a I2- or more- 
bel. flowered racemose umbel 
Pedicels about 1 cm. long. Pedicels 2 cm. lon 
Ovary glabrous. Ovary glandular. 
Of the first series of specimens collected by Forrest of this 
plant all save a few, reserved as duplicate forms from the sending 
to Europe, were lost in a steamer which was torpedoed on the 
way home. 
Rhododendron megaphyllum, Balf. f. et Forrest.* (Fal- 
coneri.) 
Robust shrub as much as g m. high with stout branches. 
Branches a year old I cm. or more in diameter surface brown 
tomentose, the tomentum persisting more or less for several 
years. Foliage-buds unknown. Leaves petiolate as much as 
20 cm. long; lamina obovate sometimes approaching elliptic but 
always wider above the middle often fiddle-shaped narrower or 
broader as much as 18 cm. long 12 cm. broad, apex often re- 
curved rounded sometimes subtruncate slightly emarginate the 
sinus occupied by a rounded red tuberculate mucro, margin 
broadly cartilaginous entire not recurved or slightly so, base 
wedge-shaped or obtuse or rounded sometimes showing an 
abrupt narrowing towards the base prolonged as a narrow wing 
nd uae gaat iia deter gniate Balf. f. et Forrest-——Frutex robustus ad 
ae : 
sulcatus. Flores in racemo-umbellam circ. 20-floram dispositi rhachi tomentosa ; 
ius ; ula 
stylus sub stigmate discoideo late clavatus. psula curvata pilis Spaiticcis 
plus minusve vestita. Semina complanata arillata. 
