102 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
curved branches. Branches a year old about 0.75 mm. in dia- 
meter puberulous and densely squarrosely lepidote, some scales 
short-stalked adpressed to stem, others long-stalked with cup- 
shaped disk the fringe upturned, disk often falling from the 
setulose-like white stalk; older branches blackening and more 
or less warted by the scales. Foliage-buds ovoid blunt scale- 
leaves few (about seven); outer ones pale brown somewhat 
crustaceous rounded to oval or ovate-oblong hardly keeled 
obscurely mucronulate inside at top silky, outside puberulous 
and spongily lepidote, more or less ciliate: innermost scales 
yellow more or less membranous scaphoid oblong-obovate 
about 7 mm. long 5 mm. broad rounded at top hardly mucro- 
nulate inside silky at top, outside puberulous and _lepidote, 
floccosely fringed particularly at top; young leaves convolute 
densely lepidote on both surfaces within the bud, showing a 
few hairs at the top otherwise epilose, petiole puberulous above 
-with short simple hairs. Leaves petiolate about 1.5 cm. long ; 
Jamina thick leathery oblong-oval about 1.3 cm. long 6 mm. 
broad rounded at the apex minutely mucronulate, margin 
‘slightly undulate-crenulate and recurved, base obtuse or broadly 
cuneate; upper surface dark green mat grizzly with dried 
almost contiguous net scintillating uniform peltate scales, 
the scales with broad umbo sometimes citron-coloured the 
equally broad fringe colourless and spread flat, groove of the 
midrib hardly visible ; under surface pale buff-coloured with 
a prominent midrib, lepidote with bicoloured discontiguous 
uniform scales some rufous some greenish equally mixed, 
the rufous scales with broad convex umbo infiltrated with red 
secretion, the greenish ones often with a yellow-tinted annulus, 
interval between the scales less than the diameter of the scales 
glaucous covered by close-set epidermal wax-bearing papillae ; 
petiole about 2 mm. long grooved above puberulous and 
lepidote like the young stem. Flowers in a compact 5-6- 
flowered terminal umbel: bracts falling early, inner ones 
oblong-oval with rounded or flattened shortly mucronulate 
tip densely lepidote and puberulous outside, ciliate ; bracteoles 
clavately filiform about 8 mm. long exceeding the pedicels 
about equalling the calyx thinly pilose at the top ending in 
long bristle hairs; pedicels short about 2 mm. long scurfily 
‘whitely lepidote. Calyx green cupular about 7 mm. long 
cut to near base into 5 lobes; cup flattened lepidote outside 
about 1 mm. long; lobes membranous oblong or ovate obtuse 
or rounded or erose or acute, densely lepidote outside loosely 
pilose inside, margin ciliate with long hairs. Corolla bright 
yellow about 1.7 cm. long somewhat rotate: tube broadly 
campanulate darker yellow about 4 mm. long glabrous outside, 
