BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 287 
Asia, and Western China, Don’s characterisation is little more 
than a group distinction. 
In 1825 D. Don republished in an extended form his de- 
scription of Rh. anthopogon, citing again only Wallich’s Gossain 
an specimens.* It is noteworthy that in these two de- 
sa ase Don gives the flower colour as “ roseo-purpurea ”’ 
and ‘ a,’ but no mention is made in either of whorls of 
rae foliage-bud scale-leaves. Are we to assume the 
absence of these scales on the Gossain Than plants? When 
present on plants of this alliance the scale-leaves are conspicuous 
and cannot be overlooked. One must suppose that Don’s 
authority for the flower colour was Wallich himself. 
ntho- 
pogon, citing only Gossain Than plants.t A remarkable 
d. 
and there is no reference to “‘ roseo-purpurea’’ or 
rosea’ of the earlier descriptions. Further—G. Don adds to 
his description “‘ Clt. 1820.’’ Now Wallich was in Nepal from 
ecember 1820 until November 1821,{ and obtained during 
x 
that period, I presume, his Gossain Than specimens. The. 
plants cultivated in Britain in 1820 could not therefore be 
. Don, Flora Nepalensis (182 5), 153. The revised description runs :— 
Rhod dendron anthopogon, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis ovalibus subtus 
virides : 
segmenta ta ovalia, apice ee matpine villosa. Corolla " hypocrateriformis ! 
rosea: tubus cylindraceus, limbo plurimum longior, superne dilatatus: lobis 
limbi rotundatis, ‘aieiadeninenclanie faux coarctata, lana copiosa nivea tortuosa. 
tecta! Stamina 5, inclusa! tubo multo breviora. Filamenta gracilia, erecta, 
glabra. Stylus superne crassior, masse us plurimum brevior. Stigma clava- 
tu Capsula 5-locularis, 5-val 
+ G. Don, Syst. iii (1834), Sas. The description 
Rh. anthopogon (D. Don in Mem. Wern . Soc. iii, p. 409)—branchlets downy, 
leaves oval, rusty beneath from lepidoted compabiane corollas 
throat. hb F. Native of Nipaul, on Gosaingsthan. R. aromaticum, Wall. cat. 
much branched. Leaves ending in a reflexed mucrone, naked above. 
Flowers glomerate, sulphur-coloured. Pedicels short, lepidoted and resinous 
ycine segments rounded at the apex, with.villous margins. Segments of 
corolla roundish, with undulately curled margins. Filaments glabrous. Stigma 
clavate. 
Bearded-flowered Rhododendron. Fl. April, May. Clit. 1820. Shrub I 
to os foot. 
re Notes from a Journey to Nepal in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. iv (1910), 59. 
