316 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Rh. cephalanithum, Franch. Yunnan: Tali Range, E. 
flank, I0,000-12,000 ft. 
Rh. chamaetortum, Balf. f. et Tibeto-Yunnan frontier : Ka- 
Ward. gwr-pw Glacier Valley, 
15,000 ft. 
Rh. gymnomiscum, Balf. f. et Tibeto-Yunnan frontier: Ka- 
ard. gwr-pw Glacier Valley, 
14,000 ft. 
Rh. hedyosmum, Balf. f. Szechwan ? 
Rh. ledowdes, Balf. f. et W. W. Yunnan: N.E. of Yangtze 
Sm. bend, 13,000 ft. 
Rh. lepidanthum, Balf. f. et Yunnan: Lichiang, 11,000- 
W. W. Sm. 
Rh. nwaiense, Balf. f. et Ward. E. Upper Burma: Nwai 
Divide, 12,000-13,000 ft. 
Rh. platyphyllum, Balf. f. et Yunnan: Tali Range, E. 
W. W. Sm. flank, 10,000-11,000 ft. 
Rh. praeclarum, Balf. f. et Kansu. 
Farre 
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Rh. vadinum, Balf. f. et W. W. Yunnan: Lichiang, 11,000- 
Sm. “ 12,000 ft. 
Rh. Sargentianum, Rehder et Wo Szechwan: x1d000— 
ilson. 14,000 ft. | 
Rh. sphaeranthum, Balf. f. et Yunnan: Fengkow Valley, 
iin a 12,000—-13,000 ft. 
Excepting Rh. cephalanthum and Rh. Sargentianum all the 
species are described in the preceding pages. 
All these are dwarf, shrubby, aromatic plants with small (with 
but few exceptions) repand leathery leaves, dark green above 
and with a lax (spongy) never blood-red scale indumentum below : 
and they show general uniformity in the form of the foliage- 
bud scale-leaves persistent or deciduous, the complanate or con- 
volute vernation with bright yellow young parts, the bistrate (long 
and short) indumentum of scales the longer of which lose their 
and become setae, the dense capituliform inflorescences 
with overlapping deciduous bracts and conspicuous bracteoles, 
the small green or reddish calyx cut to the base usually, the 
tubular oblique corolla tube often long and villous: inside 
usually bearded at the mouth, the included stamens glabrous 
or puberulous, the short lepidote ovary and style never much 
longer than the ovary but often shorter. Of the fruit we know 
little—where known it is a lepidote capsule invested by the 
calyx and dehiscing to the base. 
The whole series has affinity with the series of Anthopogons 
and of Fragrans. Franchet in the descri ption of Rh. cephalan- 
