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156 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON, 
lous. Gynaeceum a little shorter than corolla longer than 
stamens about 3.2 cm. long; ovary conoid truncate slightly 
grooved about 6 mm. long thinly puberulous with white fasciate 
flock-hairs which are intermixed with long-stalked white glands ; 
style white glabrous scarcely enlarged at the tip where it forms 
a crimson lip around the dark stigmatic lobes. 
Yunnan. G. Forrest. 
This Rhododendron appeared at Werrington Park in a 
frame-bed of seedlings of Rh. repens, Balf. f. et Forrest. Mr. 
J. C. Williams tells me it is a plant of prostrate habit like Rh. 
vepens, but with much larger leaves. The leaves, as Mr. Wiliams 
says, recall in form those of Rh. zeylanicum, Hort. and such like 
forms of Rh. arboreum, Sm. and Rh. Delavayi, Franch., but all 
these plants of the Arboreum series have a complete buff-coloured 
underleaf indumentum concealing the epidermis; here the 
epidermis is exposed between the scattered hairs and glands. 
I am impressed by the likeness to Rh. fulgens, Hook. f., and this 
not only in the foliage but also in the flower. - There is no 
identity here, only an approach. The leaves in Rh. fulgens have 
more indumentum below and the flowers are on short pedicels 
in dense small trusses and have dark crimson blotches in the 
pouches of the petals—separating characters of easy recognition ; 
on the other hand the similarity in the calyx with pouches on 
the tube and of the short tubular campanulate subregular 
corolla with deep indentations in the tube and the sparingly 
clad ovary are no less easily seen. 
I have named this very distinct plant. There is no specimen 
of it in Forrest’s collections, and if a hybrid origin be assumed 
for it two lines of parentage might in all the circumstances 
be suggested ; namely, the Arboreum series through some form 
of Rh. Delavayi, and the Forrestii series through some form of 
Rh. repens—the foliage-form and flower-character coming mainly 
through the former, the habit through the latter. But the 
divergences from both shown by the plant are great. Mr. 
Forrest may be able to throw some light on the problem when 
he returns. 
Rhododendron regale, Balf. f. et Ward.* (Falconeri.) 
Gnarled tree as much as 9 m. high with stout branches and 
large leaves. Branches a year old as much as 1.2 cm. in diameter 
* Rhododendron regale, Balf. f. et Ward .—Arbor contorta ad 9 m. alta ramis 
crassis foliisque magnis. Rami annotini circ. 1.2 cm. diam. pellicula pilorum 
agglutinatorum grisei. Ala ae ak. Folia petiolata ad 25 cm. longa; lamina 
petiolum cuneatim subdecurrens; supra opaca atro-viridis leviter rugulosa 
