BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 95 
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is Rhododendron lophophorum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.+ 
Sticky shrub as much as 2 m. high with faintly red 
branches about 3.5 mm. in diameter when a year old, densely 
glandular with stalked red ovoid glands having some inter- 
spersed floccose hairs; older branches glabrescent. Foliage- 
leaf buds unknown. Leaves petiolate, as much as 11.5 cm. 
long ; lamina thinly leathery oblong or oval-oblong or oboval- 
oblong about 10.5 cm. long 3.5 cm. broad slightly tapered at 
apex into an apiculate tip with a tuberculate mucro, margin 
slightly cartilaginous plane not recurved, base obtuse narrowly 
or broadly; upper surface dark green somewhat varnished, 
the midrib grooved, primary veins about 16 on each side slightly 
prominent (when dry), groove of the midrib and whole surface 
marked by blackening vestiges of glands and floccose hairs (in 
the young leaf the surface is more or less densely clad with many 
glands and loose elongated branched hairs with thin walls) ; 
under surface dull dirty buff-coloured with prominent red- 
tinted glandular midrib, the primary veins hardly showing 
beneath the smooth minutely punctulate parchment-like per- 
sistent indumentum, the punctulations are red glands which 
often blacken and they are embedded in the agglutinated thin- 
walled broad long branches of floccose more or less rosette- 
like hairs; petiole about 1 cm. long thick wrinkled grooved 
above densely glandular red at first becoming black through 
the drying up of the glands. Inflorescence a small racemose- 
umbel of some 8 flowers, rhachis about 5 mm. long sparingly 
floccose ; bracts unknown; bracteoles short filiform about 3 
mm. long pilose from base and hair-crested ; pedicels about 
1.5 cm. long more or less, somewhat unequal pale green and 
sparingly floccose eglandular. Calyx small about 1 mm. long 
fleshy with 5 very small rounded or tooth-like marginal pro- 
jections, altogether glabrous. Corolla narrowly campanulate 
white flushed rose sparingly spotted posteriorly about 3.2 cm. 
* Jéqoc, crest—in allusion to the hair-crest of the ovary. 
t Rhododendron lophophorum, Balf. f. et Forrest.—Frutex glutinosus ad 2 m. 
laevis sordide fulva pilis agglutinatis induta et minute glanduloso-punctulata ; 
petiolus circ. 1 cm. longus glandulosus nigricans. Flores in racemoso-umbellam 
obscure puberula 5-loba; lobi rotundati 1.2 cm. longi et lati. Stamina 10 
li roll que brevi ; filamenta puberula. Discus puberulus. 
yna corolla brevius ; ovarium petasiforme glaberrimum sed apice piloso- 
cristatum ; stylus glaber. 
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