BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 109 
base keeled pink when young becoming brown and crustaceous 
more or less puberulous on back with many branched rufous 
hairs around the acuminate tip, floccosely ciliate; innermost 
scales thin membranous yellowish often as much as 2 cm. long 
ligulate-spathulate acuminate ; young leaves in the bud revolute, 
upper surface covered with floccose hairs falling as the leaf 
expands, under surface densely tomentose. Leaves petiolate 
as much as 6 cm. long; lamina thickly leathery oblanceolate 
or lanceolate or oval or oblong as much as 5 cm. long 1.5 cm. 
broad obtuse with a short conspicuous red tuberculate hyda- 
thodal mucro, margin revolute, base tapered to narrow wings 
running into the petiole ; upper surface dark green mat reticu- 
late and shagreened glabrescent but marked by bases of fallen 
juvenile floccose hairs, midrib grooved and lined by withered 
vestiges of hairs, primary veins some 13 on each side grooved, 
as are the ultimate veinlets ; under surface purple or magenta- 
red, midrib raised, rest of venation obscured, the whole surface 
covered with a thin loose bistrate indumentum of slightly 
tinted brownish hairs through which the red epidermal surface 
shows, hairs of the upper stratum with long stems branching 
freely the branches cylindric and pointed, under stratum of 
rosette short-branched hairs, whole indumentum detersile 
leaving the red epidermal surface naked or showing a few hairs 
on or about the midrib; petiole stout lanately tomentose as 
much as x cm. long often less. Flowers solitary at the end of 
the branches (? always) ; outer bracts crustaceous apiculate or 
tailed from an ovate base tomentose on back, floccose-fringed, 
innermost bracts more or less membranous yellow oblong-spathu- 
late or obovate rounded at apex more or less mucronulate as 
much as 2.2 cm. long and 1.2 cm. broad densely pubescent out- 
side and inside towards the top, ciliate, persistent during flower- 
ing; bracteoles unknown ; pedicels about 1.8 cm. long densely 
floccose. Calyx small fleshy 5-lobed about 1.5 mm. long; 
lobes rounded glabrous outside, flock-fringed. Corolla tubular- 
campanulate deep rose-coloured unspotted about 4 cm. long ; 
tube glabrous outside, puberulous inside, fleshy 5-gibbous and 
retuse 5-lobed ; lobes rounded about 1.3 cm. long 1.5 cm. broad. 
Stamens unknown. Disk puberulous belowovary. Gynaeceum 
shorter than corolla; ovary cylindrico-conoid about 4.5 mm. 
long grooved tomentose with fasciate upwardly curved hairs 
of few stout thick-walled branches ; style glabrous. 
S.E. Tibet. Tsarong. On Ka-gwr-pw. Lat. 28° 40'N. Alt. 
13,000 ft. Open stony alpine pasture. Creeping shrub of 2-6 
in. Flowers deep rose without markings. G. Forrest. No. 
16,695. June 1918. (Duplicate of 1917 in foliage.) : 
W.N.-W.-Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 12’ N. 
