BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. III 
much-branched hairs the branches twining and interweaving and 
a substratum of colourless rosette-hairs with short vesicular 
branches, eglandular, the indumentum present for many years 
becoming grey and blackening on the spongy bark ; outermost 
perulae of the foliage-bud crustaceous brown with an ovate or 
rounded cucullate base and a long tail much longer than base, 
inner surface more or less glandular (particularly over upper 
part of midrib) with red ovoid shortly-stalked glands intermixed 
with sebaceous floccose white or reddening hairs, margin beauti- 
fully ciliate with besom-like floccose hairs, these glands and hairs 
cover the outside and enwrap densely the tail ; intermediate scale- 
leaves with broader and larger base and the tail reduced to an 
apiculus, edge somewhat thinner, thence through more obovate 
forms to the innermost perulae which are pale yellow about 2.8 
cm. long 4 mm. broad ligulate-spathulate shortly apiculate 
glandular and puberulous outside and with a ciliate margin ; 
young leaves with revolute ptyxis, upper surface pubescent with 
floccose hairs nearly sessile and branched from the base in long 
unicellular ascending straight or slightly curling pointed colourless 
threads intermixed with stout-stalked clavate orange-coloured 
or red glands, upper indumentum soon falling; under surface 
densely woolly with bright red-orange-coloured bistrate persistent 
indumentum like that of branches (the long interwoven hairs 
having perhaps shorter stalks). Leaves petiolate as much as 
Io cm. long persistent for several years and forming close-set 
tufts at the ends of the branches ; lamina rigid thickly leathery 
narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate as much as 9 cm. long and 
1.7 cm. broad tapered to the acute or shortly acuminate apex 
and ending in a conspicuous hydathodal red mucro, margin 
strongly recurved, gradually tapered to the base where it passes 
into the broad petiole as a slight wing ; upper surface olive-green 
glossy as if varnished somewhat shagreened apparently glabrous 
but showing vestiges of the fallen juvenile hairs and glands, 
midrib deeply grooved, groove lined with vestigial juvenile 
floccose hairs and an occasional gland, the primary veins 
as many as 18 on each side slightly grooved ; under surface 
rufous-orange-coloured from a thick woolly indumentum covering 
the raised midrib (where the coloration is sometimes paler even 
grey-white) and hiding the rest of the venation, indumentum 
persistent bistrate of elements like those of the branches, the 
upper-stratum hairs thick-walled and curling tendrilwise, the 
under stratum of rosette-hairs many-branched but not forming a 
conspicuous layer; petiole about I cm. long enwrapped in an 
indumentum (like that of the branches) as thick as itself, with the 
indumental cover it is broader than the base of the lamina. 
Flowers in a terminal racemose umbel enclosed in the bracts 
