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haud vestiti. Folia ad apicem ramulorum rosul 
124 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
One further comment :—It has been remarked that the 
flowers of the West Chinese rhododendrons do not as a rule 
rival in form, in consistence and in depth and intensity of 
colour Himalayan species such as Rh. Thomsoni, Rh. fulgens, 
Rh. barbatum and the like. The Chinese forms we have been 
considering are certainly evidence to the contrary and to have 
made known and introduced to our gardens these lovely plants 
which will be amongst their greatest glories in the future should 
be some reward to Mr. Forrest for all the labour and hardship 
of the years he has devoted to the explorations which have 
secured them. , 
Rhododendron roseotinctum, Balf. {. et Forrest.* 
A dwarf shrub not I m. high with many thin twiggy short 
branches at first about 2 mm. in diameter apparently more or 
less clad with adpressed floccose hairs soon glabrescent, annual 
growths short 2 cm. or less each crowned by a rosette of 
5-6 leaves which do not persist after the second year, 
stem nodulose at top of successive year’s growth, not clothed 
with persistent outer scale-leaves of foliage-buds, becoming 
white before decortication. Foliage-buds elongated fusiform 
pointed ; outer scale-leaves soon deciduous crustaceous with 
rounded or oblong base keeled ending in a firm tail or apiculus 
outer surface more or less puberulous with white adpressed 
branched hairs which also sheathe the apiculus, margin shortly 
floccose-ciliate : inner scale-leaves yellow long ligulate-spathulate 
about 2.5 cm. long 6 mm. broad membranous obtuse or rounded 
at apex and shortly apiculate outside glabrous below towards 
top puberulous the apiculus and around it clad with a rufous 
omentum, margin floccose ciliate; young leaves revolute in 
bud upper surface sprinkled with caducous floccose fasciate 
* Rhododendron roseotinctum, Balf. . Forrest.—Frutex nanus vix I ™ 
Rami breves glabresc 
; lamina coriacea ovalis vel oblongo-ovalis circ. 5 cm. longa 2.5 cm. lata 
ongus glabrescens. Umbella terminalis 3—4-flora ; bracteae 
ad 1.5 cm. longae; bracteolae ensiformes s i 
lan 
munusve Toseo-tincta ad 3.2 cm. longa, basi carnea intus septis interpetalinis in- 
completis divisa, glabra ; lobi rotundati reflexi. Stamina 10 inaequalia corolla 
reviora ; filamenta puberula glaber. Gynaeceum circ. 2.8 cm. longum 
corolla brevius staminibus longius — 
; Ovarium breviter ovoideum truncatum 
: glanduloso-setulosum floce: : 
; stylus glaber. 
