46 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
in diameter densely and scurfily clad with stalked peltate rufous 
scales, scales blackening on older twigs which become dark-grey 
before shedding the bark. Foliage-buds oblong narrow covered 
by few scale-leaves; outer scale-leaves thick crustaceously 
leathery elongate-triangular or lanceolate tapering to a blunt 
point densely rufously lepidote outside, setulose-ciliate ; inner 
scales straw-yellow-coloured membranous at first broadly ovate 
only slightly concave; innermost oblong carinate mucronulate 
not hooded elepidote on back or with one or two scales, at the 
apex conspicuously setulose-ciliate ; young foliage-leaves con- 
volute, on both surfaces epilose and densely lepidote, margin of 
both lamina and petiole setulose-ciliate. Leaves shortly petiolate 
about 1.5 cm. long ; lamina thickly leathery oval or oblong-oval, 
apex obtuse or rounded mucronulate, about 6 mm. broad, margin 
slightly recurved and slightly notched sometimes with a few setu- 
lose hairs towards base, base obtuse or obtusely cuneate ; upper 
surface dark-green somewhat glossy covered everywhere with 
scontiguous or almost contiguous white not scintillating peltate 
sessile hardly impressed scales each with broad umbo (some- 
times slightly infiltrated with yellow secretion) and equally broad 
translucent fringe, intervals between the scales less than diameter 
scale, midrib scarcely grooved ; under surface tawny-brown 
clad with contiguous overlapping uniform concolorous persistent 
stalked peltate scales each with its stalk sunk in a shallow pit 
and having a dark-brown umbo anda paler buff-coloured equally 
tiores nigro-verruculosi. Alabastrorum perulae extimae e saga oe cg RO 
extus rufo-lepidotae setuloso-ciliatae, intimae membranaceae oblongae 
§t 
pilis contortis vestita, elepidota ; tubus campanulatus circ. 4 mm. longus ad os 
villosus ; lobi 5 tenues circ. r cm. longi 6 mm. lati panes rotundati 
ul i. mina 10 inaequalia corolla breviora alternatim longiora et breviora ; 
rage i us staminibus longius ; ay conoi truncat circ. 
3 mm. longum infra adpressim puberulum sursum imbricatim lepidotum et 
puberulum ; stylus glaber nunc pilos paucos basales Capsula circ. 4 mm 
longa 1.75 mm. lata pallida dense Stone et puberula lobis calycis plus minusve 
_inclusa ab apice ad basim valvis 5 dehiscens. 
