BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 63 
nodular and without a covering of persistent scale-leaves of 
the foliage-buds, showing short annual growths at most about 
2 cm. long bearing rosulate clusters of some 5 leaves, at first 
reddish soon becoming grey, bearing vestiges of floccose vesicular 
branched hairs and of stalked ovoid glands. Leaf-bud narrow 
fusiform pointed, scale-leaves early deciduous; outer scale- 
leaves crustaceous rounded about 5 mm. long and broad, with 
a tail or apiculus, followed by longer oblong or oval mucronate 
ones, all keeled outside puberulous with floccose hairs the hairs 
clustered densely round the apiculus, margin floccose-ciliate ; inner 
scale-leaves yellow membranous ligulate-spathulate about 2 cm. 
long 6 mm. broad rounded shortly mucronulate, silkily puberu- 
lous inside, densely floccose around the mucro, outside puberu- 
lous, margin ciliate ; young leaves revolute in the bud sparingly 
floccose on upper surface densely so and glandular over lower 
surface of petiole and base of lamina. Leaves petiolate as 
much-as 7.5 cm. long; lamina thinly leathery obovate or 
oblong-oval as much as 7 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad, apex rounded 
with a short red tuberculate projecting mucro, margin carti- 
laginous: plane, base obtuse; upper surface mat dark olive- 
green smooth not rugulose or shagreened glabrescent with 
a grooved midrib, the primary veins some 12 on each side not 
conspicuous, the midrib lined by withered floccose hairs vestiges 
of which are seen over the general surface ; under surface paler 
yellow-green with slightly red-tinted raised midrib and primary 
veins, the midrib densely floccose with hair vestiges, the general 
reticulum of venation seen through a thin veil of a more or 
less withered indumentum composed of floccose distant whitish. 
branched vesicular rosulate hairs, eglandular ; petiole 5-7 mm. 
long grooved pinkish showing more or less withered floccose 
hairs and stalks of glands. Flowers in a terminal 5-6-flowered 
umbel: bracts and bracteoles falling as flowers open ; pedicels 
equal about 2 cm. long thin strict divaricate swollen below 
the calyx densely clad with fasciately branched floccose hairs 
intermixed with short setulose ovoid red glands. Calyx sub- 
foliaceous about 7 mm. long with a short fleshy cup and 5 red 
membranous lobes; cup glandular and floccose outside about 
I mm. long; lobes unequal all elliptic or oblong-elliptic obtuse 
or rounded at top, the larger as mhuch as 6 mm. long 4 mm. broad 
glabrous outside, gland- and floccose-ciliate, the smallest about 
2 mm. long, the lobes usually spreading at first fall from the 
cup so that in older flowers the notched cup rim appears like 
the whole-calyx. Corolla “ deep —— ——— alae 
sparingly spotted tubular-campanulate about 3.5 cm. ; 
tube Fiat a base 5-gibbous with imperfect interpetaline septa 
inside, the gibbosities deeper coloured, glabrous outside and 
