296 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
shortly petiolate; blade oblong or elliptic-oblong narrow to 
each end about 1.6 cm. long and 8 mm. broad thick leathery 
with a small apical mucro, margin slightly revolute slightly 
roughened by bases of fallen scales, base obtuse or very slightly 
rounded; upper surface dark green midrib sulcate elsewhere 
slightly rugulose but primary veins not particularly conspicuous, 
more or less marked by pittings or greyish fragments (the remains 
of peltate scales which densely covered the young leaf) ; under- 
surface fulvous never rufescent the midrib slightly elevated 
and covered like the rest of the smooth surface by peltate per- 
sistent scales these are contiguous overlapping each having an 
umbo which develops a yellow content girt by a narrow lobed 
fringe, the scales are not agglutinated ; petiole about as much 
as 4.mm. long usually shorter densely lepidote. Flowers 
racemosely arranged about 10-15 together in small terminal 
trusses, axis of inflorescence lepidote with setae formed from the 
scale-stalks ; the outer bracts rounded about 5 mm. broad fulvous 
not keeled but somewhat apiculate with a somewhat mem- 
branous ciliate margin lepidote on the back and puberulous 
inside ; the inner bracts ramentaceous obovate spathulate about 
5 mm. long and 4 mm. broad lepidote on back lanate-ciliate 
puberulous inside; prophylla linear claviform about 4.5 mm. 
long longer than the calyx ; pedicels about 1.5 mm. long lepidote. 
Calyx small and variable cut to nearly the base into five lobes 
sometimes 2.5 mm. long sometimes about Imm.; the cup is saucer- 
shaped and glabrous outside, lobes from deltoid to ovate to 
oblong or elongate triangular longer ones perhaps 1 mm. broad 
membranous or if short rigid with a few or no peltate scales 
outside, margin in longer ones lepidote-fimbriate in smaller ones 
with long setae at top even longer than the lobe itself. Corolla 
about 1.2 mm. long membranous throughout hardly oblique, 
tube glabrous outside pubescent inside about 8 mm. long ex- 
panding into a rosy purple spreading limb cut into 5 rounded 
lobes hardly crenulate and about 6 mm. in diameter. Stamens 
5 about 7 mm. long nearly as long as corolla tube, filaments 
dilated downwards and at base puberulous, anthers small 
oblong barely r mm. long. Ovary conoid 5-lobed and densely 
lepidote about 1.5 mm. long ; style stout clavate about 0.75 mm. 
long crowned by a lobed stigma. 
I am puzzled over one character. Adams says—and Maxi- 
mowicz makes a point of the character—that the stamens are 
glabrous. I do not find themso. The Anthopogons, excepting 
Rh. rufescens, Franch., have glabrous stamens. The whole 
series to which Rh. fragrans belongs has puberulous stamens. 
In its rose-coloured (sometimes white) flowers Rh. fragrans 
resembles Rh. cremnophilum, Balf. f. et W. W. Sm., but its 
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