BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 71 
top concealing base of style; style at base where concealed 
clad with a few hairs otherwise glabrous bright red expanded 
at. top and forming a conspicuous lip below the dark black-red 
lobulate broad discoid stigma. 
. Yunnan. Shweli-Salween divide, Shweli Valley. Alt. 
gooo ft. Lat. 25° 20’ N. Open situations in pine and mixed 
forests. Shrub of 5-7 ft. ae bright rose, fragrant. G., 
Forrest. No. 15,815. Jun 
A species with a icdantiehine corolla. The long cylindric 
tube below the abruptly open limb shows no obliquity, and is 
densely hairy outside. It recalls in form that of the pee my 
series, but the plant is no near relation of that series. 
it should be placed I am unable at the moment to Rete 
HBO Rhododendron haemaleum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.T 
Small undershrub about 5 dm. high with thin straight 
short branches about 2 mm. in diameter when a year old, 
not clothed with persistent scale-leaves, showing more or 
less for a year or two the vestiges of a juvenile indumentum of 
floccose hairs, bearing leaves in rosulate clusters of 5-6 at end 
of each year’s shoots which become tumid and make the older 
branches more or less nodulose, leaves not persisting through a 
second year, bark becoming a dark grey before decortication. 
Outer scale-leaves of the foliage-bud leathery rounded below 
apiculate or shortly-tailed keeled pubescent with adpressed 
floccose hairs outside, sericeous at top inside, margin erose and 
* giuadéoc, blood-red—in allusion to the colour of the flow 
T Rhododendron haemaleum, Balf. f. et Forrest.—Su frutex 1 nanus ad 5 dm. 
asse coriacea oblanceolata 
floccosa pilis caducis. Folia ad 9 cm longa ; cr 
vel oblonga vel obovata vel oblongo-obova longa cm. ad 
tu tiolum subalatum attenuata; supra 
comspicuus circ. 3.5 : cupula atro-coccinea pu escens ; lobi 5 circ 
- gi coccinei ovati vel oblongi obtusi extus gla oH 
ciliati demum reflexi et decid r a a carnea campan ta 
terpetalini 
omnino glaber; lobi 5 patentes rotundati emargina Stamina 10 a 
corolla gynaeceoque breviora ; filamen ta albida basi puberula. Discus glaber 
Gynaeceum corolla paullo brevius aes paullo longius ; ovarium circ. 3. : 
mm. longum cylindrico-conoideum truncatum pilis fasciatis rufescentibus dense 
tomentosum eglandulosum ; stylus glaber. 2 
