II2 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
which persist during flowering, as many as 20 flowers in the in- 
florescence, rhachis pubescent above with white straight hairs, 
below tomentose with long woolly hairs; bracts outermost 
woody subulate from a narrow base followed by rounded 
and ovate coriaceous with thinner margin keeled tailed or 
apiculate 1.5-2 cm. long and 7-10 mm. broad glabrous inside 
save at top where are silky adpressed hairs, outside more or 
less tomentose with floccosé rufous-orange-coloured hairs, tail 
or apiculus completely enwrapped in the tomentum: inner 
fertile bracts membranous spathulate or obovate with rounded 
or truncate apiculate apex as much as 2.5 cm. long and 7 mm. 
broad softly hairy with white or rufous tomentum more or less 
over whole outer and inner surfaces and on margin and summit; 
bracteoles much shorter than pedicels about o. 5 cm. long filiform 
adpressed pilose with white hairs, hair-crested ; pedicels as much 
as 2 cm. long stout expanded below the calyx, glandular with 
shortly stalked ovoid red glands also puberulous with simple 
hairs. Calyx very small a little over 1 mm. long cut to the 
base into 5 rounded lobes, whole calyx more or less glandular 
and puberulous outside, margin of lobes gland-fringed and ciliate. 
Corolla white flushed rose outside with a few posterior crimson 
spots without a blotch about 2.8 cm. long with a funnel- 
shaped tube narrow cylindric at base slightly curved thick- 
ened and 5-gibbous, puberulous inside, glabrous outside, 
expanding into a 5-lobed limb; lobes about 1 cm. long and 
1.4 cm. broad thin emarginate crenulate. Stamens 10 unequal 
shorter than corolla, longest about I.7 cm. long with anther 
2 mm. long, shortest about I cm. long with anther 1.5 mm. long ; 
filaments stout expanded downwards, from the base upward to 
about the middle finely puberulous. Disk large densely puberu- 
lous. Gynaeceum about 2 cm. long shorter than corolla 
longer than stamens ; ovary cylindrico-conoid truncate about 
4 mm. long grooved densely glandular with ovoid orange- 
coloured short-stalked glands; style pale-coloured glabrous 
hardly expanded below the much broader dark-coloured discoid 
lobulate lipped stigma. 
E.N.-W.-Yunnan. Mountains in the N.E. of the Yangtze 
bend. Boulder-strewn slopes. Alt. II,000-12,000 ft. Lat. 
ay" 45° N. Shrub of 4-6 ft. Flowers -white flushed rose on 
exterior. G. Forrest. No. 10,540. July 1913. 
E.N.-W.-Yunnan. Mountains in the N.E. of the Yangtze 
bend. In open thickets, Alt. 10,000 ft. Lat. 27° 45’ N. Shrub 
of 8-10 ft. Flowers rose? G. Forrest. No. 10,991. Aug. I9g13. 
N.W. Yunnan. Kari Pass, Mekong-Yangtze divide. Open 
stony pastures. Alt. 12,000-13,000 ft. Lat. 27° 40'N. Flowers 
rose. G. Forrest. No. 12,947. July 1914. 
