BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. ‘I41 
about 3 cm. long occasionally showing longer virgate shoots. 
Branches of the year densely bristly elepidote yet with here and 
there a scale, about I.5 mm. in diameter girt at the base by per- 
sistent outer brown scale-leaves, older twigs becoming blackish 
grey and decorticating in third or fourth year, the outer foliage- 
bud-scales persisting and marking base of successive annual 
growths for two or three years. Foliage-buds small ovoid ; outer- 
most scale-leaves broadly ovate or rounded-oval crustaceous 
sparingly lepidote outside keeled mucronulate, margin 
densely whitely ciliate at top; intermediate scale-leaves more 
oblong ; innermost scale-leaves membranous carried up on 
elongating shoots oblong-oval pointed about 1.5 cm. long 6 mm. 
broad sparingly lepidote and sticky outside more or less setulose, 
young leaves conduplicate-convolute. Leaves petiolate as much 
as 4 cm. long persistent for two or more years ; lamina leathery 
oval or oblong-oval as much as 3.3 cm. long under 2 cm. broad 
obtuse with a short deflexed tuberculate greenish-yellow mucro, 
margin thickly cartilaginous recurved usually bristly or crenulate 
from scars of fallen bristles, base rounded or somewhat truncate ; 
upper surface bright green somewhat glossy obscurely coarsely 
shagreened, midrib grooved glabrous except at very base where 
puberulous and with a few bristles, primary veins some 6-7 on each 
side hidden ; under surface bright grey-white with raised whitish 
yellow sparingly lepidote midrib, the primary veins concealed, 
all over clad with long rod-like epidermal wax-forming papillae 
and lepidote with brownish or orange-coloured unequal dis- 
contiguous peltate scales sunk in the leaf-pits and overlapped 
more or less by the wax-forming papillae, the scales with swollen 
convex glistening disk distance between the stales greater than 
their diameter, about 6-7 scales in a sq. mm.; petiole reddish 
brown about 7 mm. long bristly all over and especially below, 
grooved and puberulous in groove, lepidote amongst the bristles 
below. Flowers solitary terminal; flower-bud ovoid the last 
leaf of the year’s shoot adpressed to the bud and becoming leaf- 
scale-like ; outer bracts rounded and with an acute tip keeled 
reddened above sometimes lepidote on back when exposed with 
longus lepidotus setulosus. Flores solitarii terminales; bracteolae lineares circ. 
1.3 cm. longae pedicello longiores ; pedicelli stricti erecti circ. 1 cm. longi bracteis 
rubrae 5mm.longae. Discus puberulus. Gynaeceumad1 cm, lon aan ovarium 
tasiforme circ. 3 mm. longum truncatum sulcatum, squamulis stipitatis albidis 
carnosulis se obsitam ; stylus validus brevis basi lepidotus ea apice 
clavatus. Cabbie ovoidea calyce saepe rubro inclusa, valvis 5 dehiscen 
