BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. gt 
old twigs dark red glossy very finely puberulous and lepidote 
with small red shortly stalked uniform not contiguous persistent 
scales roughening the surface; older branches blackening and 
as they decorticate splitting to expose a green secondary cortex. 
Foliage-buds cylindric narrow about 2 mm. in diameter sharp- 
pointed with very few (3) outer brown elongated triangular 
sharp-pointed lepidote scale-leaves around broader green imbri- 
cate ovate or oblong-ovate or oblong scale-leaves slightly 
keeled and mucronate and green lepidote outside; young 
_ leaves conduplicate conyolute. Leaves petiolate as much as 
8.5 cm. long drooping ; lamina chartaceous oblong as much as 
8 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad remarkably convex above and concave 
below tapered to a long decurved apical point with a red tuber- 
culate prominent mucro, margin finely cartilaginous sometimes 
red entire eciliate, base obtuse ; upper surface dark-green glossy 
bullate, midrib sulcate finely puberulous, primary veins 10 to 
I2 on each side grooved, whole surface lepidote with small 
distant brown scales about I in a square mm.; under surface 
paler green with yellow whitish prominent midrib sparsely 
dotted with small brown peltate scales, the primary veins 
and ultimate reticulation showing clearly, the surface generally 
lepidote with red-brown small uniform peltate distant scales, 
the intervals usually wider than the diameter of the scales, 
about 8-10 in a square mm.; petiole under 1 cm. long green 
grooved above and there puberulous elsewhere finely lepidote. 
Flowers fugitive arranged in 2-3- (sometimes I-) flowered 
terminal and axillary umbels three to four umbels usually 
fascicled at the end of the branches, one of them terminal, 
often without the terminal one which is replaced by vegetative 
bud ; flower-bud ovoid pointed green ; bracts persistent during 
flowering ensheathing the pedicels all brown chartaceous lepidote 
and puberulous outside, inside glabrous, ciliate, outermost small 
rounded thicker keeled mucronate, innermost more membranous 
oblong-spathulate or oboyate truncate retuse or emarginate 
with a short apiculus, longer than the pedicel about 1.7 cm. 
long 1 cm. broad; bracteoles persistent after flowering linear 
expanded into a spathulate top about 1 mm. broad brown 
pilose and lepidote outside hair-crested longer than pedicel 
about equalling innermost bracts ; pedicels 1 cm. or less long 
green or tinted red on upper side, lepidote with discontiguous 
scales, inserted abruptly into centre of calyx, slightly deflexed. 
Calyx small cupular fleshy about 2 mm. long or less green 
er pink-tinted; limb often obsolete or as small short teeth 
Or as rounded or pointed lobes sometimes unequal (the 
postero-lateral larger) .5 mm. long membranous tinted pink 
and with a few cilia. Corolla about 2.5 cm. long oblique 
