BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 155 
in appearance those of Rh. zeylanicum only smaller. Leaves 
petiolate about 8 cm. long; lamina leathery convex above 
oblong-oval, as much as 7 cm. long 3.5 cm. broad, apex obtuse 
mucronate, margin cartilaginous recurved, base obtuse ; upper 
surface dark green glabrous excepting the midrib which is lined 
by withered hairs, midrib deeply sunk between the convex 
halves of the lamina on which the primary veins some 14 on 
each side are deeply sunk, ultimate veinlets forming a reticulum 
on the surface; under surface paler, yellow-green, with raised 
paler midrib and primary veins thinly sprinkled with short 
glands and irregularly branched small floccose hairs; petiole 
stout about 1 cm. long pinkish grooved above and there glandular 
and puberulous, elsewhere glabrous. Flowers in a small 5- 
flowered open terminal umbel the bracts remaining during 
flower-expansion ; bracts outermost leathery ovate apiculate 
keeled, followed by more ovate, then rounded ones all more or 
less floccose and glandular outside and ciliate with greasy fasciate 
hairs ; innermost bracts obovate spathulate reflexing from above 
the middle somewhat membranous greenish-yellow sticky, 
outside more or less floccose and glandular, margin densely 
ciliate with fasciate hairs and especially so around the mucro ; 
bracteoles short about 5 mm. long white subulate hairy in 
upper part; pedicels unequal as much as 3 cm. long stout pink- 
tinted and thinly clad with fasciate floccose hairs and white 
stalked glands. Calyx saucer-shaped about 2 mm. long crimson ; 
tube showing 5-6 glistening glabrous pouches ; lobes 5 half-moon 
shaped glabrous outside but finely ciliate with short white 
flock-hairs and glands. Corolla blood-red campanulate unspotted 
and with faintest indication of a darker blotch a little above 
base of posterior petal, nearly regular about 3.5 cm. long glabrous 
inside and outside ; tube fleshy at the base retuse with 5 pouches 
and 5 deep interpetaline grooves outside correspondingly ridged 
inside; limb with 5 thinner recurving rounded emarginate 
lobes each about 8 mm. long 2 cm. broad. Stamens to slightly 
unequal bunched in the middle of corolla-bell shorter en ob 
of corolla and than damian longest about 2.5 c ong 
shortest about 1.8 cm.; filaments white fleshy slightly aa 
to the base very shortly puberulous in lower portion ; anthers 
ochre-coloured about 2.5mm.long. Disk green lobulate puberu- 
spathulatae glandulosae et floccosae; bracteolae breves circ. 5 mm. longae ; 
pedicelli glandulosi et floccosi ad 3 cm. longi. Calyx ruber glaber nitidus parvus 
circ. 2 mm. longus gibbosus 5-lobus ; lobi semilunati extus glabri minute ciliati. 
Corolla sanguinea tubulosa subangularis circ. 3.5 cm. longa carnosula glabra. 
gi arium 
‘conoideum truncatum circ. 6 mm, longum sparsim puberulum et aakakiwona: 
stylus glaber. 
