142 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
a few peziza-like glistening orange scales, margin shortly whitely 
ciliate ; inner bracts about 1 mm. long clasping the pedicel and . 
persisting as a sheath round it even until fruit is formed ; brac- 
teoles about 1.3 cm. long longer than pedicel linear pilose and 
white-hair-crested elepidote ; pedicel red-tinted densely bristly 
elepidote barely 1 cm. long not swollen below the calyx. Calyx 
large foliaceous membranous about 1 cm. long campanulate 
yellowish outside glabrous divided to middle or beyond into 5 
subequal rounded crenulate lobes about 1 cm. broad with fan- 
spreading veins eciliate. Corolla fleshy yellow open cup-shaped- 
campanulate about 2 cm. long lepidote outside with glistening 
scales glabrous inside, at the base forming a wide short 
tube slightly compressed laterally expanding into a broad 
5-lobed limb; lobes broad imbricate about I cm. long 1.5 
cm. broad. Stamens Io subequal, five a very little shorter than 
the other five all shorter than corolla; filaments fleshy stout 
dilated downwards naked at very base above that villous to 
mouth of basal narrower part of corolla ; anthers oblong orange- 
red about 5 mm. long. Disk puberulous below the ovary. 
Gynaeceum about I cm. long shorter than stamens; ovary 
dome-shaped truncate grooved about 3 mm. long densely clad 
with white mushroom-like somewhat succulent stalked scales ; 
style stout slightly decurved with some white scales at the 
base broadened into a clavate tip below the lobulate stigma. 
Capsule ovoid with style persistent until dehiscence lepidote 
outside completely enclosed in the persistent slightly enlarged 
somewhat hardened striate often red calyx, dehiscing to base 
by 5 valves. 
N.W. Yunnan. Kari Pass, Mekong-Yangtze divide. Lat. 
27° 40’ N. Alt. 12,000-13,000 ft. On ledges of cliffs. Shrub 
of 2 ft. [In fruit.) G. Forrest. No. 12,942. Aug. 1914. 
Yunnan. [Without precise locality.) Duplicate in mature 
fruit. G. Forrest. No. 13,574. Oct. 1914. . 
N.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 20’ N. 
Alt. 12,000 ft. On boulders and ledges of cliffs. Shrub of 1-2 ft. 
Flowers bright yellow. G. Forrest. No. 14,059. June 1917. 
Yunnan. [Without precise locality.] G. Forrest. No. 
.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28°. Alt. 
I0,000-11,000 ft. Duplicate. G. Forrest. No. 16,558. 
Yunnan. [Without precise locality.} G. Forrest. No. 
17,352. Duplicate in fruit. Oct. 1918. 
A lovely species of the affinity of Rh. sulfureum, Franch. In 
the dried specimens the bright green of the upper-leaf surface 
and the grey-white of the under surface combined with the bright 
