BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 107 
equalling the base enveloped in white tomentum like that on 
keel ; innermost bracts membranous greenish-yellow ligulate- 
spathulate about 2.7 cm. long and 6 mm. broad, apiculate 
glabrous inside, outside woolly tomentose like outer bracts and 
the apiculus completely enwrapped in brown hairs, margin 
ciliate with stalked besom-hairs ; young leaf in bud revolute, on 
both sides densely tomentose hairs with stout stalks and much- 
branched curling and intertwining, those of upper surface 
deciduous at expansion. Leaves shortly petiolate as much as 
g cm. long; lamina thickly leathery rigid lanceolate or oblan- 
ceolate as much as 8.5 cm. long and 1.4 cm. broad narrowing 
to the acute apex where is a conspicuous hydathodal mucro, 
margin cartilaginous prominently revolute, long-tapered to 
narrow wedge-shaped base; upper surface dark olive-green 
opaque shagreened clad with obscure vestiges of juvenile hairs, 
midrib grooved, groove lined with hairs, primary veins about 
I4 on each side obscure ; under surface with an elevated midrib, 
the rest of the venation hidden, dull tawny-coloured completely 
covered by a loose-surfaced bistrate indumentum, lower stratum 
of rosette-hairs with few broad short vesicular arms patent 
uncoloured, upper stratum of stoutly-stalked much-branched 
hairs with long or short axis the branches of broad vesicular 
long cells with thin walls not terete and not curling tendrilwise 
but interlocking; petiole about 5 mm. long grooved above, 
densely tomentose and glandular like the branchlets. Inflor- 
escence (few-flowered) and bracts and _ bracteoles unknown ; 
pedicel about 1.7 cm. long glandular and pubescent. Calyx folia- 
ceous pink or orange-coloured as much as 1 cm. long ; cup fleshy 
about 1 mm. long outside more or less glandular and floccose- 
puberulous ; lobes oblong or oblong-oval glabrous outside and 
inside with some marginal cilia, reflexing and often falling off and 
leaving behind a toothed cup. Corolla tubular-campanulate about 
3.5 cm. long puberulous at base inside without blotch or spots, 
slightly 5-gibbous at base, 5-lobed; lobes about 1.2 cm. long 
1.8 cm. broad emarginate crenulate. Stamens r0 unequal 
shorter than corolla, longest about 2.4 cm. long with anther 
about 2.25 mm. long, shortest about 1.4 cm. long with anther 
about 1.5 mm. long; filaments widened downwards, from the 
base puberulous through one-third or one-half the length. 
Disk most densely puberulous below the ovary. Gynaeceum 
about 2.8 cm. long a little shorter than corolla a little longer 
than stamens; ovary elongate ovoid grooved dark-coloured 
densely covered with intermixed stalked glands (the glands 
Ovoid orange-coloured, the stalk whitish) and long simple hairs, 
at the top with a crest of erect uncoloured pointed simple hairs : 
style reddish-coloured at the base with a few straight simple 
