298 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
coloured and resinous and the fringe always frayed, the whole 
indumentum compact the midrib elevated and more or less 
lepidote ; petiole about 5 mm. long lepidote. Flowers some 
20 in a small dense hemispheric truss with a short puberulous 
axis; bracts early deciduous outer ones crustaceous fulvous 
about 6 mm. long and 8 mm. broad more or less rounded carinate 
mucronulate outside lepidote, margin finely ciliate within puberu- 
lous ; inner bracts obovate spathulate membranous about 8 mm. 
long 4 mm. broad outside softly puberulous and at the top 
lepidote also ciliate at margin with twisted hairs inside puberu- 
lous ; prophylla about 8 mm. long equalling the calyx filiform 
and clavate expanded at the top where they are ciliate elsewhere 
puberulous not lepidote ; pedicels about 2 mm. long puberulous 
and elepidote. Calyx campanulate 5 mm. long cut to beyond 
the middle, lobes often slightly spreading at top thinly mem- 
branaceous green oblong ovate or oblong as much as 2.5 mm. 
broad acute erose and fimbriate-ciliate outside elepidote inside 
puberulous. Corolla yellow 1.4 cm. long slightly fleshy with a 
narrow tube slightly oblique curved forward 8 mm. long in 
front glabrous outside shaggy and villous inside and at throat 
dilated upwards expanding into an oblique limb with 5 rounded 
imbricate slightly crenulate lobes some 3.5 mm. in diam. 
Stamens 5 about 6 mm. long the filaments dilated downwards 
and puberulous at base, the anthers oblong and mm. long. 
Ovary 5-grooved and densely lepidote the scales ultimately 
sticky about 1.75 mm. long; style claviform green about 1.25 
mm. long crowned by a lobed stigma. 
Rh. anthopogonoides seems to be nearest to Rh. clivicolum, 
Balf. f. et W. W. Sm. Both of them have yellow flowers, but 
the puberulous elepidote short pedicels and elepidote calyx, 
smaller corolla associated with larger leaves distinguish Rh. 
anthopogonoides. 
LAPPONICUM SERIES. 
_ The following general characters mark the species in this 
series :-— 
Carpet, cushion or dwarf erect shrubs with small leaves 
usually. Twigs lepidote the scales shortly stalked never losing the 
disk and becoming setae. Foliage-bud scale-leaves never persist- 
ent. Vernation complanate or convolute. The leaves lepidote on 
both sides, the under indumentum always compact never loose 
and spongy. Fringe of the scales usually as wide as the umbo 
and entire. The inflorescence a terminal capitate umbel 1-7- 
flowered. Flowers small. Flower-bud scale-leaves remaining 
during flowering. Pedicels very short. Calyx cut to base with 
membranous lobes varyingly lepidote, puberulous, ciliate or scale- 
