BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 61 
producing as many as 8 foliage-leaves which persist for several 
years and are clad with scale-leaves of the leaf-bud which persist 
for many years and closely clothe the stems. Branches of the 
year densely lanate with white long-stalked much-branched 
hairs covering an inconspicuous series of glands, the wool 
becoming rufous-brown and persisting for several years. Scale- 
leaves of the foliage-bud few outer ones some 4 or 5 lanceolate 
acuminate keeled often pink flock-fringed more or less, the tip 
particularly floccose the hairs rufous-brown, not crustaceous 
at expansion but becoming so, persistent at base of shoot; 
inner scale-leaves about 4 membranous spathulate or ligulate- 
spathulate acute or mucronulate pale yellowish tinged rose 
flock-fringed about 1 cm. long 2.3 mm. broad carried up on 
the elongating shoot ; young leaf revolute in the bud, covered 
on upper surface with floccose soon deciduous hairs, underside 
densely lanately tomentose with a few short glands beneath 
the hairs; petiole densely whitely woolly. Leaves petiolate as 
much as 3.5 cm. long; lamina thickly leathery oblong or 
lanceolate as much as 3 cm. long 1 cm. broad, narrowly obtuse 
with a prominent projecting hydathodal mucro, margin revolute, 
base subtruncate or obtuse; upper surface olive-green opaque 
grooved over midrib, primary (about 8 on each side) and ultimate 
veins marked by traces of fallen juvenile hairs which persist 
more or less in withered state in groove of midrib; under sur- 
face paler the midrib and primary veins raised, reticulation of 
ultimate venation very conspicuous, on midrib and primary veins 
and about them a rufous-brown tomentum persists in tufts the 
and glandular. 
about 2 mm. long 5 
I mm. long deltoid red glabrou 
cCampanulate about 2.2 cm. l 
blotch; tube glabrous outsid 
gibbous retuse fleshy at the base with 
septa; lobes 5 rounded about 7 mm. 
ong clear rose without spots or 
e, slightly puberulous inside, 5- 
5 imperfect interpetaline 
long I cm. broad slightly 
