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140 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
branches thick-walled unicellular pointed ; style glabrous much 
dilated below the lobulate broad discoid stigma. Capsule 
cylindric slightly sickle-shaped about 2 cm. long I cm. in 
diameter more or less clad with bright brown fasciate hairs, 
dehiscing by valves of 1 or more carpels. Seeds flat dark brown 
oblong as much as 3 mm. long I mm. across with a lateral wing- 
aril, a large chalazal membranous crest, the funicular end only 
slightly produced often pointed. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° 30’ N. Alt. 
11,000 ft. Inrhododendron forest. Shrub of 10-20 ft. Flowers 
yellow with a faint flush of rose at base. G. Forrest. No. 
17,650. June 1918. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Lat. 25° 20’ N. Alt. 
11,000 ft. In rhododendron forest. Shrub of 30 ft. Flowers 
yellow tinged crimson at base. G. Forrest. No. 17,678. 
June 1918. 
W. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide. Alt. 11,000 ft. 
Duplicate of 1912-17. G. Forrest. No. 17,691. May 1918. 
Yunnan. Duplicate in fruit. G. Forrest. No. 16,036. 
Nov. I917. 
Yunnan. Duplicate in fruit. G. Forrest. No. 17,769. 
Oct. 1918. 
A species of the Falconeri series nearly allied to Rh. basilicum, 
Balf. f. et W. W. Sm., from which its smaller leaves campanulate 
slightly fringed not funnel-shaped fringed cup-hairs of the indu- 
mentum of the under-leaf surface and the to-r1-locular not 
13-15-locular ovary distinguish it.. Capsule only about 2 cm. 
long not 4 cm 
Like Rh. basilicum it has a persistent cinnamon-coloured 
indumentum, the surface of which is somewhat spongy, show- 
ing the mouths of the funnel-shaped cup-hairs embedded in 
the few short marginal branches of the cup. The cup-hairs 
readily separate not being held together by an nha aeNe of 
branch hairs. 
Rhododendron megeratum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.t (Boothii.) 
Shrub about half a metre high with straight at first red then 
chestnut-brown coloured branches of short annual erowelis 
* ueyroatoc, passing lovely. 
| Rhododendron megeratum, Balf. f. et Forrest —Frutex nanus ad .5 m. altus. 
subtrunculata ; supra laete viridis glabra subnitens ; subtus griseo-alba illis 
ceriferis baculiformibus vestita et squamulis aurantiacis ae inae- 
qualibus in foveis depressis discontigue lepidota ; petiolus rubescens c’ 
