BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON 207 
habit, larger leaves and their form, its shorter bracts, and 
lepidote pedicels easily distinguish it 
Rh. anthopogonoides, Maxim., is another little known species 
of the Fragrans series. It was collected in Kansu by Przewalski 
in 1872, and so far as I know by no one since that date. I 
expected that Mr. Farrer would have found it during his recent 
expedition and have introduced it tocultivation. The only small 
Rhododendron at all resembling it which I have seen in Mr. 
Farrer’s collection is Rh. praeclarum, Balf. f. et Farrer, a new 
species of the Cephalanthum series. See pp. 261, 317. I give 
here for comparison a description of Maximowicz’s species—not 
that I have much material upon which to base an account of it. 
I have only one specimen, presented to the Edinburgh Herbarium 
by Maximowicz and named by himself, so that I am sure of the 
plant to which he gave the name.* 
Small shrub copiously and fastigiately branched. Branch- 
lets a year old densely coated by peltate resinous-centred scales 
and also by short setae formed by the stalks of scales from which 
the disk has fallen; older twigs blackening and showing remains 
of scales and setae afterwards shedding the bark. Foliage-buds 
ovoid small coated by small fulvous outer scale-leaves densely 
lepidote outside with short resinous scales. Leaves about 3.5 cm. 
long petiolate ; lamina thick coriaceous about 3 cm. long and as 
much as 2 cm. broad elliptic mucronate at apex margin slightly 
revolute entire slightly roughened by the bases of juvenile scales 
or setae which have fallen off, base obtuse or somewhat truncate 
or with lobes slightly rounded ; sc surface opaque midrib 
and p veins more or less sulcate; under surface never 
rufescent at most a pale rusty a deisel lepidote the peltate 
scales uniform contiguous with umbo more or less orange- 
mowicz, in Mél. Biolog. ex Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc., St. Petersb., ix 
Maxi 
ae 772, describes the plant as follows :— 
hododendron anthopogonoides — (Osmothamnus, Maxim.).—Pumilum in- 
ip) stamini 
filamentis subulatis ad medium pilosis, antheris oblongis ; stylo duplo breviore 
sursum subincrassato ; ovario lepidoto 5-mero. 
In Chinae prov. Kansu (Przewalski, 18 
Rh. anthopogoni, Don propius quam Rh. ‘aerant Maxim., ob folia majora, 
inordinatos, corollae colorem, sed ab utroque bene distinctum limbo 
mentis pilosis. 
ramos 
corollae parvo, filamentis 
