BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 153 
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4° Rhododendron pubescens,* Balf. f. et Forrest. (Scabrifolium.) 
Much and intricately branched very leafy shrub of a little 
over I m. high with thin short yellowish branches (when a year 
old a little over 1 mm. in diameter) densely pubescent with white 
shorter hairs and also longer somewhat setulose hairs inter- 
mixed with stalked concave reddish or orange infiltrated peltate 
scales, traces of the long hairs particularly remaining on the dark 
grey older twigs until decortication, bearing many small leaves 
arranged along the length of the year’s shoot and persisting some 
of them for two or three years, many leaves clustered around 
the apical bud to which the last leaves reduced in size are ad- 
pressed as an outer bud-covering. Foliage-bud small the outer 
scales triangular acuminate keeled densely pubescent outside 
ciliate mucronate, inner scales more ovate and thinner; 
young leaves conduplicate-convolute. Leaves shortly petiolate 
as much as 2.5 cm. long ; lamina thick leathery narrowly oblong 
or oblanceolate or lanceolate as much as 2.2 cm. long 6 m 
road, acute with a rounded mucro red _ tuberculate, margin 
revolute, oe cuneate ; upper surface dark green mat densely 
pubescent with white hairs and longer seta-like hairs also 
bearing a few distant stalked red or orange peltate scales and 
otherwise pitted with discontiguous pits out of which stalked 
peltate scales have fallen, no asperities towards the margin, 
midrib grooved and lined with hairs, primary veins not visible ; 
under surface paler green-grey setulose and also pilose more 
densely than upper surface and with peltate scales like those 
of that surface only more of them, midrib raised and coated like 
the surface; petiole about 3 mm. long grooved red at base 
when young clad at base like the stem. Umbels 3-4-flowered 
several fascicled on each shoot one in axil of each of the upper- 
* Rhododendron pecan Balf. {. et Forrest.— Frutex nanus circ, 
altus. Rami tenues (annotini flavidi circ. 1 mm. diam.) pilis albidis et brevibus 
et lepidota, venis primariis occultis; subtus pallidior griseo-viridis, ut supra sed 
densius vestita, costa media elevata; petiolus circ. 3 mm. longus plus minusve 
rubidus pubescens et lepidotus. Umbellae laterales 3—4-florae ad apicem ramu- 
Capsula oblonga recta circ. 6 mm. longa 2.5 mm. diam. puberula et lepidota. 
