66 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
formed by the splitting up of the original pellicle, the intervals 
between the patches brownish-green showing the epidermis below 
a thin hair-coating formed of bases of the pellicle hairs which 
have been torn off to form the rufous patches, in the end reddish 
blotched green and glabrous owing to fall of all indumentum 
but vestiges of hairs remain, midrib raised clad like the rest of 
the surface ; petiole about 1-1.5 cm. long glabrous underneath 
from the beginning, above at first densely clad with floccose 
indumentum glabrescent sometimes reddened. Inflorescence 
a shortly racemose 8-10-flowered umbel, the rhachis about 
5 mm. long glabrous ;. outer bracts from rotundate to ovate 
or oblong-oval keeled concave, the outermost shortly tailed, 
silky inside glabrous outside, except at the tail which is tomen- 
tose with wrinkled greasy rufous hairs, more or less ciliate, inner 
bracts silky on both sides as much as 1.5 cm. long 1 cm. broad, 
innermost fertile bracts obovate or shortly spathulate .ounded 
at top and often crimson there silky inside and outside as much 
as 2 cm. long and over 1 cm. broad; bracteoles filiform pilose 
from base about 7.5 mm. long shorter than pedicels ; pedicels 
unequal 1.5-2 cm. long green glabrous. Calyx small fleshy 
saucer-shaped glabrous about 1 mm. long with 5 minute teeth. 
Corolla funnel-campanulate white with a few crimson posterior 
spots about 3 cm. long closely puberulous inside towards base, 
glabrous outside not gibbous 5-lobed; lobes rounded emar- 
ginate about 1 cm. long 1.5 cm. broad. Stamens Io unequal 
much shorter than corolla and gynaeceum, longest about 2.2 cm. 
long with anther 3 mm. long, shortest about r cm. long with 
anther 2 mm. long; filaments widening downwards, from the 
base all villous to the middle or beyond. Disk glabrous. 
Gynaeceum about 2.7 cm. long shorter than corolla longer 
than stamens; ovary conoid truncate glabrous about 4 mm. 
long; style glabrous slightly clavate at tip and forming a lip _ 
to the narrower lobulate stigma. Capsule slightly oblique to 
pedicel obovoid or oblong-ovoid glabrous black nearly straight 
about 1.7 cm. long 5 mm. in diameter dehiscing by 5 valves 
from the apex leaving a short stylopod around base of persistent 
style. Seeds pale chestnut-brown about 2 cm. long 1 cm. broad, 
complanate oblong without wings blunt at both ends, sometimes 
prolonged slightly at chalazal end, without terminal arils. 
.E. Tibet. Tsarong. On Ka-gwr-pw, Mekong-Salween 
divide. Lat. 28° 20’ N. Alt. 14,000 ft. On cliffs and rocky 
slopes. Shrub of 3-5 ft. Flowers soft rose with a few crimson 
marl G. Forrest. No. 14,345. July 1917; on cliffs. 
Shrub ot 2-5 ft. Foliage only. G. Forrest. No. 14,341. 
July, 1917. 
S.E. Tibet. Tsarong. On Ka-gwr-pw, Mekong-Salween 
