BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 143 
yellow of the flower are a pleasing colour-blend, and as the plant 
is a dwarf with abundance of close-set foliage it should be an 
effective rock-garden plant. To my eyeit is in the dried specimen 
one of the most charming of the dwarf Rhododendrons which 
Forrest has collected. Those who have flowered Rh. sulfureum, 
Franch. in cultivation obtain a suggestion of our plant from it. 
But Rh. megeratum is smaller leaved and the grey-white under 
leaf is much brighter and the flowers are larger. 
40% Rhododendron nakotiltum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.+ 
Shrub about 3.5 m. high with stout branches. Branchlets a 
year old about 5 mm. in diameter bright green and sprinkled with 
whitish and reddish floccose branched hairs, older branches purple 
glabrescent. Foliage-leaf buds unknown. Leaves petiolate as 
much as 13.5 cm. long; lamina oblong or obovate-oblong or 
somewhat oval-lanceolate about 11 cm. long and 3.5 cm. broad, 
apex somewhat beaked ending in a short horny mucro, margin 
cartilaginous almost flat, base broadly obtuse; upper surface 
opaque dark green shagreened (when dry) more or less clad 
with vestigial floccose hairs, midrib grooved lined with floccose 
hairs primary veins about 12 on each side hardly visible ; under 
surface buff-coloured covered everywhere with indumentum 
obscuring the venation excepting the midrib, rosette-hairs of 
the indumentum of two forms, small persistent white with 
prostrate broad short vesicular branches, larger with long 
ascending vesicular thinner branches forming an upper more 
* yaxoTtiAToc, pate pr wool plucked off—in allusion to the fall of the 
upper stratum of indumentum. 
t+ Rhod odendron achat, Balf. f. et Forrest. —Frutex ad 3.5 m. altus ramis 
pilis indumenti rosulatis strati superi d latis vesi- 
cularibus brunnescentibus, strati i nferi npoeecenny e Feat brevibus vesi- 
circ. 1.5 mm. | s carnosulus 5-lobus; lobi rotundati aces label carpine 
sparsim ciliati. Corolla pallide r kermesino-variculosa maculata ape: 
campanulata circ. 3.5 cm. longa extus glabra intus sparsim puberula 5-loba ; 
lobi lati circ. 1.2 cm. longi 2.2 cm. lati. amina 10 inaequalia corolla gynae- 
: ceoque breviora ; filamenta dense puberula. Discus glaber. Gynaeceum corolla 
brevius; ovarium cylindricum truncatum dense floccosum eglandulosum ; 
stylus glabe 
