BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 33 
usually infiltrated with pale yellow secretion not scintillating, 
the fringe translucent equally broad, interval between the scales 
less than diameter of scales, midrib grooved lined at base with a 
few short hairs ; under surface pale buff-coloured smooth some- 
scales: lobes thin pale membranous at margin, greenish or 
about 4 mm. long 1.5 mm. broad, posterior sometimes a little 
longer than anterior, obtuse or rounded at apex densely and 
whitely lepidote with large scales along middle of back and there 
puberulous at the sides, inside faintly puberulous at base, margin 
and apex fringed and woolly-ciliate. Corolla deep rose-colour 
slightly zygomorphous under 2 cm. long, epilose outside and 
lepidote; tube slightly widening upwards about 6 mm. long 
slightly puberulous inside expanding into an openly funnel- 
shaped somewhat unequally 5-lobed limb more erect on the 
posterior side spreading anteriorly ; lobes more or less oval or 
subelliptic slightly crenulate, posterior ones about 6 mm, long 
8 mm. broad, anterior longer and narrower, on the middle of 
the outer surface clad with large peltate scales. Stamens 10 
about equal in length to corolla alternately long and short, 
longer about 2 cm. long with ovoid anther pale ochre-coloured 
about 1 mm. long, shorter about I.3 cm. long ; filaments slightly 
expanded downwards, naked at the base over 2 mm., puberulous 
