BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 89 
as well as apiculus fringed with reddening besom-like or switch- 
hairs; inner scale-leaves spathulate from a narrow base in 
upper part lanceolate membranous acuminate clad like the 
outer ones, about 3 cm. long 6 mm. broad; young leaves in 
bud revolute densely clad on both surfaces by an indumentum 
of vesicular rosette-hairs. Leaves petiolate as much as 14.5 cm. 
long ; lamina thickly leathery lanceolate oblanceolate or oblong 
as much as 12.5 cm. long and 3.5 cm. broad narrowed to an 
acute apex or sometimes obtuse with a conspicuous red-tipped 
hydathodal mucro, margin cartilaginous slightly revolute, base 
obtuse; upper surface slightly glossy shagreened (when dry) 
with a grooved midrib and inconspicuous primary veins about 
I2-I4 on each. side, whole surface glabrescent but clad 
with remains of juvenile floccose branched greasy reddish or 
brownish floccose hairs; under-surface mat never glossy, at 
first greenish buff- or ochre-coloured ultimately cinnamon-rufous 
and speckled or stippled with white, quite smooth, midrib 
raised, surface including midrib covered with a bistrate com- 
plete indumentum apparently never detersile, the upper stratum 
composed of shortly stalked hairs bearing several radiating hori- 
zontal vesicular unicellular branches of varying length tinted red 
or brown and overlapping to form a canopy beneath which lies 
the under stratum of rosette floccose nearly sessile hairs with 
short colourless branches—stages between the forms of hairs 
are found,—eglandular; petiole as much as 2 cm. long stout 
densely clad with persistent indumentum like that of the young 
stem. Flowers in a terminal racemose umbel about 15-flowered ; 
bracts and bracteoles deciduous unknown ; pedicels about 
2 cm. long puberulous with simple and floccose hairs sometimes 
reddening eglandular. Calyx almost obsolete about I mm. 
long ; saucer-shaped cup showing at the margin five obscure 
semi-lunate lobes or blunt teeth fleshy outside more or less 
puberulous hairs often brown. Corolla about 3.7 cm. long 
white flushed rose at margin and without a basal posterior 
blotch but with many crimson spots on posterior petal cam- 
panulate 5-gibbous at base, glabrous outside, puberulous inside ; 
lobes 5 short and broad about 1.2 cm. long and 2 cm. broad 
crenulate, Stamens 10 unequal shorter than corolla and gynae- 
ceum, somewhere about half the length of the corolla, longest 
about 2 cm. long with short rounded anther 1.75 mm. long, 
shortest about 1.3 cm. long with anther about 1.25 mm. long ; 
filaments slightly widened downwards, from the base upwards 
to above the ovary finely puberulous. Disk puberulous. 
Gynaeceum about 2.5 cm. long shorter than corolla; ovary 
thin about 4.5 mm. long 2 mm. broad green cylindrico-conoid 
slightly grooved truncate more or less floccose ; style glabrous 
