BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 139 
along the petiole; upper surface dark green mat somewhat 
rugulose and shagreened, midrib raised at base slightly grooved 
upwards, primary veins 12 or a few more on each side slightly 
grooved spreading from midrib at an obtuse angle often approach- 
ing a right angle curving slightly upwards, surface especially 
midrib and veins showing greyish vestiges of a juvenile cob- 
webbed indumentum ; under surface cinnamon-brown the mid- 
rib raised black-purple, the primary veins also raised, the whole 
surface clad with a bistrate indumentum, the upper stratum of 
cup-shaped stalked brown hairs with a bell-shaped base to the 
cup, the stalk stout many-celled, the cup-walls of isodiametric 
cells, the margin prolonged into a few acuminate lobes not fringed, 
midrib usually devoid of these cup-hairs, the whole stratum per- 
sistent or more or less deciduous, the under stratum of rosette 
white hairs with short stalks and vesicular branches agglutinating 
into a crustaceous skin under the upper stratum and becoming 
exposed as a grey-white surface if the upper stratum falls ; petiole 
as much as 2.5 cm. long cylindric not grooved coated with indu- 
mentum like the stem the under white stratum persisting more 
or less, slightly winged by the decurrent lamina. Inflorescence 
a racemose umbel with brown tomentose rhachis about 3 cm. 
long, flowers as many as 20 in the truss, flower-bud globose ; 
bracts outer sterile ones nearly rotundate thick often thinner at 
margin leathery imbricate, inner fertile bracts oblong or oblong- 
spathulate or obovate-spathulate rounded towards top and 
apiculate outside densely coarsely silky, inside finely silky 
towards the top; bracteoles linear very short about 5 mm. long 
densely pilose outside and hair-crested; pedicels somewhat 
unequal as much as 4 cm. long elongating in fruit densely clothed 
with a pinkish woolly indumentum of much branched long inter- 
locking hairs, swollen at top below the calyx and there oblique. 
Calyx very small densely clad like the pedicel showing 8 very 
short triangular teeth. Corolla yellow with crimson or rose base 
obliquely eampanulate the posterior side convex slightly longer 
as much as 4.5 cm. long set on obliquely nearly at night angles 
to axis of pedicel ; tube very slightly pouched at base glabrous 
inside and outside; limb 8-lobed; lobes imbricate short and 
broad about 8 mm. long 1.4 cm. broad emarginate. Stamens 
16 unequal, shorter than corolla and gynaeceum, longest about 
2.5 cm. long, shortest about 1.8 cm. long ; filaments slightly 
widened at base glabrous ; anthers elliptic about 3.5 mm. long. 
Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum about 3 cm. long a little shorter 
than corolla on its anterior side; ovary ovoid truncate about 
8 cm. long grooved 10-11-locular eglandular enwrapped in a 
pinkish thick soft woolly tomentum of compactly arranged 
fasciate hairs, the stalks of the hairs long many-celled, the 
