BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 79 
when young densely tomentose glabrescent grooved above the 
groove somewhat open. Flowers in a 3—4-flowered terminal 
umbel; outermost bracts like the outer scale-leaves of the 
foliage-buds, these followed by broad orbicular crustaceous dark- 
brown bracts retuse at summit with an apiculus in the sinus 
outside and inside more or less sericeous the margin undulate 
somewhat erose with long cilia, innermost bracts yellow some- 
what membranous oblong-oval cucullate densely sericeous out- 
side and inside and densely ciliate ; bracteoles linear-claviform 
about 5 mm. long yellow, from the base pilose white hair-crested ; 
pedicels unequal, 1-3 cm. long stiff divaricate more or less 
densely floccosely woolly conspicuously swollen below the calyx. 
Calyx 2-3.5 mm. long ; cup outside somewhat floccosely woolly ; 
lobes about 1 mm. long bright red membranous ovate or rounded 
or semi-lunate glabrous outside, floccose-ciliate, at first adpressed 
to corolla, reflexing later and often deciduous. Corolla as much 
as 3.5 cm. long often less, widely campanulate bright crimson 
without spots or blotch ; tube glabrous outside and inside fleshy 
below 5-gibbous retuse with faint interpetaline incomplete septa ; 
lobes rounded 1.5 cm. long and 1.8 cm. broad emarginate crenu- 
late. Stamens 10 subequal or conspicuously unequal shorter 
than corolla and gynaeceum, longest about 2.5 cm. long with 
anther 2.4 mm. long, shortest about 1.6 cm. long with anther 
2mm. long; filaments thin and slightly widened downwards, 
glabrous. Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum about 3 cm. long a little 
longer than stamens shorter than corolla; ovary about 4 mm. 
long cylindrico-conoid truncate densely woolly tomentose with 
rufous-brown reddening fasciately - branched long hairs and 
many short rosette-hairs beneath ; style glabrous stout clavate 
and forming a lip under the broad lobulate discoid stigma. 
W.N.-W.-Yunnan. Sela. Leaves white beneath. Flowers 
a shade of orange. ee 1015. 25th June 1895; Soulié, 
1or5 bis. 13th July 1895. 
S.E. Tibet. Mekoae Sanened Bae to the N.W. of Tzeku. 
Open rocky situations. Lat. 28° 12’ N. Alt. 12,000 ft. G. 
Forrest. No. 503. July 1904- 
W.N.-W.-Yunnan. Tzeku. Monbeig. No. 168. 1897. 
S.E. Tibet. Ka-gwr-pw Glacier valley. 13,000—14,000 ft. 
Granite screes. Dwarf. Kingdon Ward. No. 575. 27th June 
IgI 
: W. N.-W.-Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28°10’ N. 
Alt. 13,000 ft. Amongst scrub in open situations. Shrub of 
3-4 Ft. In fruit. G. Forrest. No. 13,304. Sept. 1914. In 
gt4. 
N.W. Yunnan. On the Kari Pass. Lat. 28° N. Alt. 
12,000 ft. Open pasture and on the margins of pine and Rhodo- 
