BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON, 59 
apiculus and mucro, margin floccosely ciliate the hairs becoming 
rufous-red. Leaves petiolate persisting for 2 or 3 years as much 
as 16 cm. long patent not deflexing under the flowers ; lamina 
leathery oblong or oblong-lanceolate as much as 14 cm. long 
3-5 cm. broad, apex narrowed to a shortly acuminate beak- 
like tip with a conspicuous apiculate red terminal hydathode, 
margin plane slightly cartilaginous, base cuneate or obtuse, 
sides of the lamina distinctly concave below; upper surface 
glossy rich umber- brown (when dry) somewhat shagreened 
glabrescent but showing withered grey or reddish remains of 
juvenile floccose hairs, midrib grooved reddened and lined by 
vestiges of floccose hairs, primary veins indistinct as many as 
18 on each side; under surface yellow-buff smooth traversed 
by a prominent slightly pink-tinted midrib, rest of venation 
concealed, everywhere covered with an indumentum of short- 
stalked few-branched rosette-hairs the cells of the branches 
vesicular, some hairs with longer branches interweaving and 
forming the suéde-like scintillating surface, others with shorter 
branches more or less overlapped, the contrast between the 
glistening brown upper and the mat scintillating yellow-buff suede 
under surface of the leaf very marked ; petiole about 2 cm. long 
grooved above slightly tinted red or pink clad with a thin tomen- 
tose indumentum like the twigs. Inflorescence an umbel or very 
shortly racemose umbel 15-flowered (or more), rhachis brown- 
floccose under 1 cm. long; inner bracts chartaceous oblong- 
obovate approaching 2 cm. long pubescent ; bracteoles filiform 
slightly widened to top as much as 1.2 cm. long shorter than 
pedicels pilose from base hair-crested ; pedicels 2-2.5 cm. long, 
strict thin floccosely pubescent eglandular. Calyx small fleshy 
about 2 mm. long glabrous outside 5-lobed; lobes ovate or 
rounded about 1.5 mm. long glabrous but for a few minute 
marginal flocks. Corolla funnel-campanulate about 4 cm. long 
white tipped-rose with a few crimson markings ; tube glabrous 
outside, puberulous inside not gibbous at base ; lobes 5 rounded 
emarginate some 1.8 cm. long 2.2 cm. broad. Stamens Io un- 
equal much shorter than corolla, longest about 2.5 cm. long with 
anther 3 mm. long, shortest about 1.5 cm. long with anther 2 
mm. long; filaments slightly widened downwards, above the 
base with a few minute hairs or practically glabrous. Disk 
finely puberulous below ovary. Gynaeceum about 3.5 cm. long 
shorter than corolla longer than stamens; ovary thin about 6 
mm. long cylindric grooved truncate glabrous the surface very 
finely papillate ; style glabrous hardly swollen below the lobulate 
narrow discoid stigma to which it furnishes a narrow lip. ; 
W.N.-W.-Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 12’ N. 
Alt. 11,000 ft. Open pine forests. Shrub of 8-10 ft. Flowers 
