70 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
summit ; lamina leathery usually narrowly elongated lanceo- 
late some 12 cm. long and 3 cm. broad but sometimes longer 
and broader up to 16 cm. and 5 cm. broad, acute or shortly 
acuminate with a conspicuous red horny hydathodal mucro, 
margin slightly recurved cartilaginous entire, base obtuse ; 
upper surface pale mat green flat not shagreened apparently 
glabrous but showing vestiges of an early tomentose indumentum, 
punctulate with the red bases of fallen setae, midrib slightly 
grooved, primary veins as many as 12-14 on each side hardly 
visible ; under side buff-coloured entirely covered by a uni- 
strate tomentose indumentum of dendriform hairs with long 
many-celled brown stalks spreading into many long branch- 
ings of cylindric cells which become densely interwoven but 
never agglutinate, indumentum detersile exposing a bright 
green leaf-surface, midrib prominent also tomentose, rest of 
venation hidden; petiole grooved above 2-3 cm. long densely 
tomentose and setulose the setulae often extending along the 
margin to the base of the leaf. Flowers few (5-6) in a terminal 
umbellate raceme; rhachis about 2 cm. long rufous-brown 
glandular-setose and tomentose ; outer sterile bracts unknown, 
inner oblong-oval or oval tapered into a long acuminate stiff tip, 
about 3.5 mm. long tail longer than the base of the bract, 
tomentose outside, silky inside, innermost fertile bracts oblong 
cucullate about 5 cm. long 1.8 cm. broad thin membranous with 
many converging veins long apiculate or tailed, tail much 
shorter than body of bract outside and inside more or less silky ; 
bracteoles about 2 cm. long 1.5 mm. broad somewhat vaginate 
at base narrowly ligulate, throughout hairy with dendriform 
hairs hair-crested; pedicels stout about 4 cm. long set on 
oblique to axis of flower densely gland-setulose and tomentose 
with dendriform hairs. Calyx small densely setulose and 
tomentose ; cup with 5 short oblong similarly clothed teeth. 
Corolla about 6.5 cm. long bright rose spotted darker posteriorly 
as much as 6.5 cm. long with a cylindric tube and funnel- 
campanulate limb, outside tomentose with fasciately branched 
hairs; tube as much as 2 cm. long thick 5-gibbous at base 
inside puberulous, expanding into the 5-lobed limb; lobes 
rounded about 2 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad. Stamens 10 shorter 
than corolla unequal, longest about 5.5 cm. long with oblong 
anther 4 mm. long, shortest about 4.5 cm. long with anther 
3.5 mm. long; filaments flattened and wider at base, finely 
puberulous from very base through three-quarters or more of 
length. Disk finely puberulous. Gynaeceum about equal to 
corolla; ovary conoid truncate about 5 mm. long grooved 
densely covered with adpressed fasciately-branched brown hairs 
intermixed with short glandular setulae which form a crest at 
