318 BALFOUR—-NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
12. Perulae persistent . ‘ . F Tt, 
Perulae deciduous. Pedicels glabrous. 
Corolla yellow, glabrous outside . gymnomiscum 
13. Pedicels lepidote. Calyx scale-fimbriate. 
. Corolla yellow, glabrous outside : nwatense, 
Pedicels hairy. Calyx ciliate. Corolla pink, 
lepidote outside . chamaetortum., 
The following are in cultivation:—Rh. cephalanthoides, 
Rh. salons: Rh. hedvosmum, Rh. ledoides, Rh. Sargenti- 
anum, Rh. sphacranthum. 
Rh. cephalanthum, Franch. was described by Franchet in 
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years, introduced, I suppose, through the French missionaries. 
It has not yet been figured, and I do not know of a description 
of it other than Franchet’s original one. It may be of use, 
therefore, if I give a description here drawn from the plant as it 
has A and flowered for some years past in the Royal Botanic 
Garden : 
Rh. seKatedtiom, —Small shrub about 6 cm. eJsiech feathered 
o the ground with short stoutish erect branches annual 
growths about 4 cm. long. Twigs of the year pale yellow 
scurfy with an abundance of pale yellow. peltate scales on long 
stalks raising them from the pale green surface of the branch 
ich is coated by a stratum of shorter-stalked peltate scales ; 
the disk of the long scales has a broad umbo and its equally 
* Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxxii (1885), 9. Franchet’s descrip- 
tion runs :— 
[ aeemenaron caesarean sp. nov. Sada vel sesquipedale, ramosum, 
setloo-landuloss “Folia obovato-oblonga, in petiolum 5-6 mill. longum 
co haseagggents supra intense viridia, asperata, subtus dense lepidota, quamis elevatis, 
cutis ; 
corolla alba, glabra ; tubus cylindricus, calyce vix duplo longior (1 cent. Gitciter 
longus), intus dense villosus; limbus explanatus tubo subduplo brevior, lobis 
rotundatis basi sese invicem obtegentibus; stamina 7-8, tubo breviora, fila- 
mentis sparse pilosis. Ovarium lepidotum 
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plus nombreuses, par ses filets staminaux poilus; elle s’éloigne de l’un et de 
Pautre par ses fleurs blanches, par les écailles de la face inférieure des feuilles, 
qui sont trés saillantes. 
+ Franchet in Bull. Soc: Bot. France, xxxiii (1886), 234. Franchet here 
R. bh Li thum, Fy b “ Fi li s) 5 ae by bd Sa +4 = = 
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