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62 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
emarginate. Stamens 10 subequal, 5 a little shorter than other 
5, much shorter than corolla, longer about 1.2 cm. long with 
anther 1.5 mm. long, shorter about 1 cm. long with anther 
i mm. long; filaments widened to base, puberulous in lower 
half. Disk puberulous. Gynaeceum about 1.8 cm. long a 
little shorter than corolla much longer than stamens; ovary 
dome-shaped truncate grooved about 3 mm. long densely 
floccose with white hairs which become rufous-brown, inter- 
mixed are some stalked ovoid glands; style glabrous slightly 
clavate at top and forming a narrow bright red lip to the 
discoid lobulate stigma. 
W.N.-W.-Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 12’ N. 
Alt. 14,000 ft. On stony alpine meadows. Creeping shrub 
of 2-3 inches. Flowers clear-rose without markings. G. 
Forrest. No. 14,373. July 1917. 
One of the best of the dwarf alpine Rhododendrons discovered 
by ign rivalling in claims its ally Rh. Forresti, Balf. f. 
It seems to be a looser-branched plant than Rh. Forrestii, 
ering a little more and forming slightly longer shoots, and 
is easily distinguished by several conspicuous characters, of 
which may be named :—the leaves are oblong or lanceolate, 
not obovate or elliptic, and have a rufous-brown under-leaf 
tufted tomentum along the veins; the branchlets are woolly 
with a few glands beneath not merely glandular; the flowers 
are in 3-4-flowered umbels occasionally reduced to one flower 
not normally solitary, and are about half the size of those of 
Rh. Forresti ; the corolla is a clear-rose, not deep crimson; the 
staminal filaments are puberulous. We have no fruiting speci- 
mens of the species, which is a desirable plant for cultivation. 
Rhododendron eudoxum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.t 
Shrub barely 2 m. high with twiggy thin branches about 
2 mm. in diameter when a year old, not conspicuously 
* etdofoc, of good report—in allusion to its attractiveness. 
Bo Rhododendron eudoxum, Balf. f. et Forrest.—Frutex vix 2 m. altus sub- 
Rami tenues, juveniles floccis glandulisque obtecti demum glabri 
cinerei subnodulosi. Alabastrorum perulae mox deciduae. Folia petiolata ad 
7-5 cm. longa; lamina subcoriacea obovata ad 7 cm. longa 2.5 cm. lata, _apice 
( ta, 
distantibus conspersa, costa media venisque primariis rubrotinctis elevatis ; 
petiolus 5-7 mm. longus glabrescens. Umbella 5-6-flora; pedicelli ad 2 cm. 
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