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BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 275, 
laribus latis vacuis vesiculosis quoquoversus intertextis) vestita ; 
petiolus crassus indumento argenteo plus minusve obtectus 
glabrescens ad 5 cm. longus. Flores plures umbellatim vel 
racemoso-umbellatim dispositi rhachi circ. 3 cm’ longa eglandu- 
losa tomentosa; alabastra inflorescentiae globosa; bracteae 
steriles ovatae vel orbiculares acuminato-caudatae glabrae, 
fertiles latae spathulato-elongatae apice rotundatae vel trun- 
catae erosae mucronatae extus intusque sericeae circ. 5 cm. 
* longae 3 cm. latae; pedicelli crassi ad 3 mm. lati inaequales 
ad 4 cm. longi sub fructu 6 cm. densissime lanato-tomentosi 
rubido-grisei indumenti pilis similibus eis foliorum sed stipite 
breviore et ramulis angustioribus longioribus divaricatim inter- 
textis eglandulosi. Calyx obliquus lanato-tomentosus dentibus 
minutis pilis obscuratis nonnunquam glabrescentibus. Corolla 
carnosula alba circ. 5 cm. longa a basi late campanulata obliqua 
tubo circ. 3.5 cm. longo extus intusque glabro gibboso et basi 
intus postice varo magno atro-rubro notato, lobis Io circ. 2 cm. 
latis emarginatis. Stamina 18 corolla multo breviora filamentis 
basi latioribus ciliato-puberulis. Ovarium crassum eglandulosum 
dense lanato-tomentosum pilis rufis fasciatim dispositis ; stylus 
tubum corollinum paullo superans circ. 2.5 cm. longus glaber 
validus sub stigmate expansus; stigma magnum discoideum 
lobulatum. Capsula tomento plus minusve detersili tomentosa 
curvata circ. 3cm.longaicm.lata. Semina oblonga complanata 
ala angusta arillata longitudinaliter striata circ. 4 mm. longa 
pallide spadicea. 
Species superba Rh. grandi, Wall. foliorum indumento 
floribusque similis sed foliis latioribus, pedicellis dense lanato- 
tomentosis, ovario eglanduloso, stylo valido brevi bene 
distincta. 
Yunnan. Western flank of the Shweli-Salween Divide. Lat. 
25° 20’ N. Alt. 11,000 ft. Shrub of 20-35 ft. In fruit. 
(Flowers crimson or rose?) In rhododendron forests. G. Forrest. 
No. gozr. Aug. IgI2. 
Yunnan. G. Forrest. No. 9369. Dec. 1912. 
Yunnan. Shweli-Salween Divide. Lat. 25° 30’ N. Alt. 
10,000-11,000 ft. Shrub of 25 ft. Flowers fleshy dull white, 
with a blotch of deep crimson at base. In rhododendron forests. 
G. Forrest. No. 11,875. April 1913. 
An even finer plant than Rh. grande, Wight. 
The indumentum in Rh. sino-grande and in Rh. grande is 
quite diagnostic. As in other large-leaved species with a hair 
covering on the under side of the leaf there are no epidermal 
papillae, and the evenness of the leaf-surface is also not inter- 
rupted by pits. Rising from the epidermal cells in numbers 
are pluricellular hairs which form first of all a stalk of longish 
