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- Rhododendron bathyphyllum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.f 
Shrub a little over 1 m. high with stout branches about 
5 mm. in diameter when a year old, densely tomentose with a 
thick rust-coloured indumentum which persists more or less, 
becoming dirty grey on the older parts of branches, the scale- 
leaves of the foliage-bud not persisting after the first year, the 
foliage-leaves persisting for several years. Foliage-bud large 
globose ; outer scale-leaves crustaceous large rotundate carinate 
more or less apiculate and slightly puberulous outside but 
rufously tomentose around the apiculus, ciliate ; inner scale- 
leaves m@émbranous yellow with tints of brown obovate or oblong- 
spathulate obtuse or rounded and mucronulate, inside more or 
less hairy with simple and branched hairs, outside silkily hairy 
and glandular above the middle, glands ovoid red shortly stalked, 
densely tomentose and glandular on the mucro, ciliate ; young 
foliage-leaves revolute, upper surface densely clad with caducous 
white hairs of 3-5 pointed branches proceeding from a common 
base. Leaves petiolate about 8 cm. long ; lamina very thick and 
leathery oblong as much as 7 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad obtuse, 
tip recurved and the small tuberculate mucro hidden in a down- 
wardly turned apical depression, margin revolute, base obtuse 
or rounded, with the lobes imbricate over the petiole; upper 
surface mat green slightly rugulose and shagreened (when dry), 
glabrescent but more or less showing the remains of juvenile 
allen hairs and also glands particularly on the midrib and 
primary veiris, midrib grooved, primary veins as many as I4 
on each side faintly grooved; under surface densely brightly 
ferruginously tomentose, the very broad midrib showing at the 
revoluta, margine revoluta, basi obtusa vel rotundata ; supra rugulosa costa 
media venisque primariis (ad 14) sulcatis, pilorum et glandularum juvenilium 
escens; infra laete ferruginea densissime 
tomentosa costa indumento elevata, indumenti pilis biformibus ; 
petiolus crassus ad 1 cm. longus dense tomentosus. 
minusve persistentes, intimae tomentosae ; bracteolae filiformes 
1 Pp 
pedicellos subaequantes; pedicelli ad 1.4 cm. longi floccoso-pubescentes saepe 
la entes. irc : 
vix . lon: C cm 
5-loba; lobi subaequales. Stamina 10 inaequalia corolla breviora; filamen 
pubescentia. Discus puberulus. Gynaeceum circ. 2 cm. longum staminibus 
longius ; ovarium circ. 3 mm. longum dense tomentosum eglandulosum ; stylus 
