24 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
wartily lepidote about 2.5 cm. long, lowermost flowers expanding 
last ; fertile bracts soon deciduous ovate acute cucullate about 
1.1 cm. long, 7 mm. broad more or less membranous lepidote 
and hairy outside, adpressed-hairy specially towards top inside, 
apiculate, the apiculus somewhat hair-crested, ciliate with many 
short and fewer long more or less woolly hairs; bracteoles 
broad soon deciduous oblong about 7 mm. long 2.5 mm. broad 
cucullate obtuse lepidote and hairy like the bracts; pedicels 
erect stiff slightly nodding at the top which is not expanded and 
is set in the middle of the calyx, about 3.5 cm. long 1.5 mm. in 
diameter, pale green at the base, bright red upwards, wartily 
discontiguously lepidote with yellowish translucent scales show- 
ing a broad fringe. Calyx shallow cup-shaped densely covered 
with imbricate scurfy yellowish scales; cup about 1 mm. long 
5-lobed ; lobes unequal, sometimes one as much as 2 mm. long 
the others much less, the majority small, all rounded, the large 
with an occasional long marginal hair. Corolla slightly fleshy 
about 1.6 cm. long somewhat rotate deep red-purple with darker 
symmetrically disposed spots on the three posterior lobes; tube 
wide about 5 mm. long 4 mm. in diameter, outside lepidote with 
yellow scales more on the posterior side, inside glabrous or slightly 
hairy shining paler at the throat ; lobes 5 rounded about 9 mm. 
long and broad with a conspicuous midrib, sparingly lepidote on 
back. Stamens Io subequal exceeding the corolla-tube, alternate 
ones slightly shorter, longest about 1 cm. long ; filaments stout 
red-purple, hairy above the naked base which is about 1.5 mm. 
long, in four posterior stamens densely hairy to 1.5 mm. from 
anther, in others the hairs form an annular tuft near the base ; 
anthers brown large 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad. Disk dark green 
slightly puberulous below the ovary. Gynaeceum about 7 mm. 
long shorter than stamens; ovary pale green broadly conoid 
truncate-retuse about 2 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter com- 
pletely covered with white translucent imbricate scales; style 
stout red-purple declinate about 5 mm. long, clavate and form- 
ing a lip under the like-coloured flat lobulate stigma. 
S. Tibet. Upper Nyamjang Valley. About Lat. 28° N., 
Long. 92° E. Alt. 10,000-14,000 ft. Capt. F. M. Bailey. 
No. 5. Beginning of November 1913. 
Captain (now Lieut.-Col.) F. M. Bailey, in course of his journey 
in the year 1913, when investigating the course of the Tsang- 
po river, gathered seeds of several species of Rhododendron, and 
these he generously presented to the Royal Botanic Garden, 
whence a distribution to other gardens was made. Plants have 
been raised from the seeds at Edinburgh and elsewhere. As 
yet only one, so far as I know, has flowered—the species described 
here as Rh. Baileyi. We received a truss of it from Mr J. C. 
