BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 23 
tose, but not reaching the densely tomentose character met with 
in that of the Roxieanum series. 
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“©” Rhododendron Baileyi,* Balf. £.+ 
Branchlets a year old stout as much as 6 mm. in diameter 
densely lepidote with cinnamon-coloured scales bearing leaves 
at intervals throughout not clustered at top which are green 
above and chestnut-brown below coated with pale brown peltate 
discontiguous scales. Foliage-bud small with few (about 6) scale- 
leaves which persist for a time on the young shoot, outer ones 
oblong, all densely lepidote and ciliate; young foliage-leaves 
in bud convolute without marginal hairs. Leaves as much as 
8.5 cm. long petiolate ; lamina leathery oblong-oval as much 
s 7 cm. long 3 cm. broad, obtuse, terminated by a prominent 
apicular hydathodal mucro tinted red often 1 mm. long, margin 
entire not recurved, base obtuse ; upper surface dark green glossy 
more or less coated with a bronze scurf of peltate withered scales 
most abundant along the grooved midrib, primary veins about 
on each side of midrib faintly depressed giving the convex 
surface of the lamina a slightly undulate appearance ; under 
surface pale buff-coloured with prominent midrib and somewhat 
partially prominent prim veins, punctulate-lepidote all over 
the green epidermal surface, scales of the persistent indumentum 
with a broad umbo and equally broad fringe, the radiating cells 
of the fringe projecting as rounded teeth, a few scales larger and 
infiltrated with brown secretion, the rest for the most part 
uncoloured ; petiole straight in the plane of the lamina grooved 
above, all over lepidote like leaf under-surface about 1.5 cm. 
long. Inflorescence racemose 16-flowered, rhachis pale green 
pedicelli erecti circ. 3.5 cm. lo i Calyx 
cupularis 5-lobus dense imbricatim lepidotus ; cupula circ. 1 mm. longa; lobi 
inaequales ad 2 mm. longi rotundati. Corolla subrotata sub bro purpurea 
i culata circ. 1.6 cm. longa ; tubus 5 mm. longus 4 mm. diam. extus 
lepidotus ; lobi 5 rotundati circ. 9 mm. longi extus lepidoti costa media conspicua. 
tamina ro subaequalia alterna paullo breviora, tubo corollae longi nta 
i . Discus paullo puberulus. Gynaeceum circ. 7 mm. 
longum staminibus brevius ; Ovarium 
translucentibus imbricatim vestitum ; stylus crassus rubro- 
clavatus circ. 5 mm. longus. 
pallide viride circ. 2 mm. longum squamis 
declinatus 
