72 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
floccosely ciliate; innermost scale-leaves ligulate-spathulate 
shortly acuminate or acute or erose with an apiculus in the sinus 
membranous yellow with conspicuous midrib as much as 1.6 cm. 
long 3 mm. broad ciliate with long branched hairs, at the top and 
about the apiculus densely clad with rufous floccose hairs, more 
or less sericeous inside ; young leaves revolute, covered on the 
upper surface with soft floccose white hairs with few branches 
falling as the leaf expands. Leaves petiolate as much as 9 cm. 
long usually less; lamina thickly leathery oblanceolate or 
oblong or obovate or oblong-obovate as much as 8 cm. long 2.5 
cm. broad commonly much less, apex obtuse or somewhat 
rounded ending in a prominent hydathodal dark red mucro, 
margin cartilaginous slightly recurved, base tapered and forming 
a slight wing to the petiole; upper surface dark olive-green 
rugulose slightly shagreened glabrous but with vestiges of 
fallen hairs particularly in the groove of midrib, primary 
veins (some 14 in longer leaves, 8-10 in shorter) and a few 
secondary veins grooved; under surface grey-white the glab- 
rescent midrib (a few floccose hairs occur) prominent red- 
tinted, the primary veins slightly prominent ascending with 
a curve at an acute angle covered as is whole surface by a 
compact not markedly detersile indumentum forming a smooth 
scintillating surface and composed of shortly-stalked hairs 
dividing at the top of stalk into many horizontal branches of 
wide cells spreading laterally and interweaving but not agglu- 
tinating forming a canopy over the epidermis—some of the hairs 
have very short stalks and suggest a second stratum of the 
indumentum but I do not see that they truly form one; petiole 
in long leaves I cm. in shorter about 5 mm. long glabrescent 
but with vestiges of juvenile adpressed branched indumental 
hairs grooved above, groove more or less open. Flowers in 
3-5-flowered terminal umbels ; outermost bracts like those of 
foliage-bud, followed by orbicular crustaceous bracts with 
an apiculus and more or less whitely pubescent outside, erose 
and ciliate, innermost bracts oblong-obovate or broadly spathu- 
late about 1.2 cm. long 5 mm. broad somewhat chartaceous 
retuse at apex with an apiculus or mucro in the sinus sericeous 
outside and slightly so inside at the top, finely ciliate with 
white hairs below, clad with compact rufous hairs around the — 
apex ; bracteoles filiform slightly widened at top pilose from 
base and white hair-crested as much as 1.2 cm. long sometimes 
as long as the pedicel; pedicels slender unequal divaricate 
straight expanding below the calyx as much as 2.5 cm. long 
often only 1.2 cm. more or less pubescent with floccose spread- 
ing fasciate hairs, eglandular. Calyx conspicuous cupular about 
3-5 mm. long ; cup dark black-crimson densely floccose tomen- 
