116 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
I cm. long (except for an occasional water-shoot about 4 cm. long) 
and producing at most some 5 foliage-leaves in a rosette, outer 
scale-leaves of the foliage-bud persistent below the leaves and for 
many years. Branchlets a year old about 1.5 mm. in diameter 
pinkish or red and glandular with short-stalked capitate red 
glands, ultimately becoming grey and decorticating. Foliage-buds 
ovate rufous-brown ; outer scales chartaceous lanceolate acumin- 
ate from the base, keeled ciliate otherwise glabrous about 9 
mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad; innermost ligulate-spathulate 
yellowish more membranous and longer ; young leaf in the bud 
revolute, upper surface entirely clad with chestnut-coloured 
short floccose hairs, upper margin of petiole clad likewise, its 
under surface red glandular. Leaves petiolate variable in size 
as much as 3.5 cm. long or as little as I cm., persisting for some 
three years clustered (3-5) at the end of the annual growths ; 
lamina leathery rigid obovate oblong or elliptic varying 
much in size from 8 mm. long by 6 mm. broad to 3 cm. long by 
2 cm. broad, apex rounded with a tuberculate dark-coloured 
mucro, margin cartilaginous slightly recurved somewhat erose 
and roughened by scars of fallen floccose hairs, base obtuse or 
somewhat cuneately tapered into the petiole; upper surface 
dark-green opaque showing a deeply grooved midrib with 
some 8 primary veins on each side which may be hardly visible 
or may be grooved giving the surface a somewhat bullate aspect, 
midrib groove is lined by vestiges of floccose hairs and the whole 
surface pocked by scars of the fallen juvenile hairs; under 
surface paler green often glaucous or approaching olive-brown 
colour, midrib and primary veins pinkish and raised, rest of 
venation appearing as a reddish or brown slightly raised reticu- 
lation, red shortly-stalked capitate glands scattered all over the 
midrib and veins, on the midrib a few floccose hairs also ; petiole 
as much as 8 mm. long usually less, pink or red grooved above ~ 
and floccose above, glandular beneath. Flowers solitary terminal 
to the branches (I have seen once two flowers at the end of a 
shoot), base of pedicel enclosed by bracts during flowering ; 
bracts few eglandular eciliate outer ones tinted red chartaceous 
ovate apiculate, about 8 mm. long and 4 mm. broad or more, 
followed by oval and then obovate forms as much as 2 cm. long 
and 1 cm. broad, all glabrous save for a patch of adpressed white 
hairs at the top outside and inside ; bracteoles about 5 mm. long 
narrowly ligulate glabrous or with an occasional marginal gland ; 
pedicel as much as 2 cm. long densely glandular (with ovoid 
“orange-coloured glands) and with a few setiform greasy reddish 
unbranched sometimes branched hairs intermixed. Calyx small 
saucer-shaped as much as 3 mm. long divided to near the base 
Into 5 ovate acute somewhat membranous red gland-fringed lobes 
