Pilate 
Yodd 
BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON, 219 
antice circ. 5 mm. longus extus glaber intus praecipue ad faucem 
villosulus, limbi explanati lobi rotundati vel orbiculares circ. 
6 mm. diam. minute crenulati. Stamina 5 tubum corollinum 
antice subaequantia circ. 5 mm. longa filamentis deorsum dilatatis 
glabris, antheris oblongis aurantiacis. Ovarium circ. 1.5. mm. 
longum ovoideum 5-lobatum plus minusve lepidotum viscidum ; 
stylus porphyreus ovarium subaequans glaber sursum clavatim 
dilatatus et stigmate 5-lobato coronatus. 
Species alabastrorum perulis persistentibus, inflorescentiae 
rhachi puberula, pedicellis puberulis et lepidotis, corolla pallide 
rosea, staminum filamentis glabris notisque aliis facile recognos- 
cenda. 
Tibeto-Yunnan frontier. Ka-gwr-pw glacier valley. 15,000 ft. 
Dwarf, forming carpet 6 ins. high. Flowers pink. F. Kingdon 
Ward. No. 431. June 1913. 
This delightful alpine shrub belongs to the Cephalanthum 
series. Its dense trusses of pink flowers evidently produced in 
numbers upon the close carpet of green vegetative shoots must 
be a pleasing sight, and one hopes that Mr. Ward may have 
obtained seed of the plant. In the series of which Rh. cephalan- 
thum, Franch. as the oldest described species is the centre there 
is no species for which Rh. chamaetortum can be mistaken. The 
indumentum of the leaf under-surface is marked by the compact- 
ness of the upper stratum of disks of the peltate scales, and these 
are broad and show clearly their structure to superficial examina- 
tion. The colour of indumentum recalls Rh. gymnomiscum, 
Balf. f. et Ward and Rh. nwaiense, Balf. f. et Ward, both of which 
are yellow-flowered species. 
See also p. 315 
Rhododendron chryseum, Balf. f. et Ward. 
Suffrutex nanus parvifolius ramosissimus. Ramuli annotini 
circ. I mm. diam. squamis sanguineo- -rufis dense furfuracei 
vetustiores mox glabrescentes cinerei decorticantes. Alabastro- 
rum parvorum oblongo-fusiformium perulae parvae extus rufae 
lepidotae intus stramineae acutae eciliatae. Folia crasse coriacea 
ad 1.5 cm. longa breviter petiolata; lamina oblonga vel sub- 
obovata ad 1.3 cm. longa 5 mm. lata rotundata apice integra vel 
emarginata mucronulata margine integra leviter recurvata basi 
cuneata supra atro-viridis squamis peltatis impressis sucino- 
nitentibus contiguis uniformiter induta costa media sulcata 
caeteroquin plana, subtus pallidior squamis rufescentibus et 
pallide viridibus intermixtis fere contiguis vestita intervallis 
minutis glaucis costa media paullo elevata squamosa venarum 
reti ultimo occulto ; petiolus ad 3 mm. longus lepidotus. Flores 
aurei in umbellas subsessiles ad 6-floras terminales aggregati 
