BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. IOI 
as a covering to the stems, and this separates Rh. microgynum 
at once from Rh. perulatum as well as from some of the ‘San- 
guineum series. The flower-characters are on the whole against 
very close affinity with the Sanguineum series. The pedicels, 
grouped stamens, glandular ovary are all Sanguineum features, 
but the small calyx, the oblique corolla openly campanulate 
from the = baie glandular filaments, are not typical of the 
Sanguineum and then there is the remarkable very 
short differesifiatine style. The foliage and its indumentum, 
the smaller calyx and oblique campanulate corolla, might suggest 
the Taliense series, but the glandular stems, petioles, pedicels, 
filaments and ovaries, as well as the very short style, are very 
different from what is typical of that series. 
The length and form of style is unique amongst Rhododen- 
drons which the species resembles. At first glance one suspects 
abnormality. But the character is found in all the flowers, 
and on the end of this style, not twice the length of the ovary, 
a well-developed lobulate stigma appears. I cannot be certain 
from my material whether the style is always decurved or not. 
It is conspicuously so in some flowers. The typical Rhodo- 
dendrons with decurved style are those of the Boothii series 
and of the Lepidotum series, but to none of them is Rh. micro- 
gynum allied. For the moment one must regard it asa form on 
the fringe of the Taliense, Roxieanum, and Sanguineum series. 
40?® Rhododendron muliense,* Balf. f. et Forrest.f 
Dwarf shrub small-leaved under 1 m. high, with short thin 
Mu-li—the region whence the plant c 
: Rhododendron muliense, Balf. f. et Peciak —Frutex parvifolius nanus vix 
I m. altus ramis tenuibus brevibus. Rami annotini circ. 0.75 mm. diam, puberuli 
squarrosim lepidoti. Alabastra ovoidea obtusa; perulae paucae, extimae 
recurva, basi obtusa vel late cuneata; supra sv abt et Aes griseis con- 
tiguis siccis adpressis haud sci jntillantibus lepidota, costa media angusta ; subtus 
Pallide fulva squamis bicoloribus rufis et viridibus ome vestita (intervallis 
viridis cupularis ae 7 mm. longus 5 
longa ; 1obi me embranacei oblongi vai ovati obtusi vel acuti vel erosi extus lepidoti 
m. 
profunde crenulati circ. 8 mm. longi 6 mm. lati. Stamina ro alternatim loncies 
et breviora corolla breviora; filamenta supra basim villosa. 
puberulus. ape ayer subaequans staminibus longius ; ova circ. 
2 mm. longum cylindri 0 ae dense lepidotum et puberalan superne 
Pilis cristatum ; stylus basi pu 
