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BaLFouR—NEw SpEcIES oF RHODODENDRON. II5 
under-leaf surface deep red; the upper surface also often 
red-veined). Flowers in a few-flowered (7) shortly racemose 
umbel, rhachis not r cm. long; bracts unknown ; bracteoles fili- 
form about 5 mm. long shorter than pedicel adpressedly pilose 
hair-crested ;_ pedicel short about 8 mm. long gradually 
expanding below the calyx to which it is slightly oblique, 
glandular the glands red ovoid on short stalks. Calyx obsolete 
showing only some point-like teeth on the margin of a fleshy 
rim. Corolla funnel-shaped about 4.5 cm. long pale pink with 
evidently a posterior darker blotch and some crimson spots, 
not gibbous at the base, glabrous inside and outside 7-lobed ; | 
lobes rounded about 1.4 cm. long 1.8 cm. broad emarginate 
hardly crenulate. Stamens 14 unequal shorter than corolla 
and gynaeceum, longest about 3.3 cm. long with anther 3 mm. 
long, shortest about 2 cm. long with anther 2.5 mm. long; 
filaments cylindric not widened to base, very finely puberulous 
for a short distance at very base; anthers oblong fat as much 
as I.5mm.indiameter. Disk glabrous small. Gynaeceum about 
3-4 cm. long about equal to the stamens ; ovary cylindrico-conoid 
truncate about 5.5 mm. long deeply grooved glabrous ; Style 
glabrous slightly expanding at top under the flat lobulate stigma. 
. Kansu. ‘‘ Only seen above gooo ft. in one series of 
wooded or coppiced mountain glens on the 10,000-ft. range 
intervening between the main chains of Siku and Satanee, not 
(for once) on limestone, but on ared shale. A comely pyrami 
bush or. round-headed tree of 12-15 it., exceedingly profuse, 
with lovely pale-pink flowers.” Farrer. No. 63. May 12, IgT4. 
A distinct species of the series of Eurhododendrons which 
have 7-lobed corollas, 14 stamens, glabrous ovary and style, 
and in which the leaves are at maturity glabrous everywhere. 
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Rhododendron repens, Balf. f. et Forrest. 
Creeping under-shrub rising 5-10 cm. above the ground of slow 
growth forming gnarled woody stems, annual increments rarely 7 
* Rhododendron vepens, Balf. f. et Forrest —Suffrutex repens ad ro cm. altus, 
Rami ultimi breves glandulosi alabastrorum perulis persistentibus vestiti folia 
5 Tosulata apicalia gerentes. Folia petiolata ad 3.5 cm. longa 2 cm, lata saepe 
minora crasse coriacea rigida 
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tomentosum ; stylus glaber. Capsula paullo 
curvata ones. (ad 2.5 cm.) vel brevis (circ. 1 cm.). Semina exalata ecristata. 
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