BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 125 
hairs. Leaves as much as 5.5 cm. long; lamina leathery 
oval or oblong-oval sometimes slightly oboval as much as 
5 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad rounded at apex ending in a short 
red hydathodal mucro, margin slightly cartilaginous and slightly 
recurved, base obtuse and prolonged as a narrow wing upon 
the short petiole ; upper surface olive-green mat slightly rugulose 
glabrescent with vestiges of juvenile hairs particularly in the 
groove of the midrib, primary veins some 9g on each side also 
grooved ; under surface grey-white with prominent slightly pink- 
tinted more or less floccose midrib, primary veins slightly raised 
but clad like rest of surface with a thin smooth scintillating 
bistrate persistent indumentum, the hairs of the upper stratum 
with a short stout pluricellular stipe crowned by many broad 
thin-walled elongated cell-branches interlocking to form the finely 
honeycomb-surface and covering a number of shorter stalked 
or almost sessile like-constructed hairs with shorter branches, 
eglandular; petiole short reddening about 5 mm. long glabrescent. 
Flowers in a terminal 3—5-flowered umbel ; flower-bud globose ; 
* outer sterile bracts like but a little larger than the scale-leaves of 
foliage-bud, inner fertile bracts chartaceous rotundate cucullate 
as much as 1.5 cm. long outside and inside silky ; bracteoles 
ensiform about 8 mm. long nearly 1 mm. broad sparingly 
and shortly hairy from base upwards on margin and back, at 
the acuminate tip slightly crested ; pedicels as much as 2.5 
cm. long usually shorter about 1.5 cm. densely setulose- 
glandular with ovoid glands at the end of long stout setulose 
stalks and mixed with a few fasciate floccose hairs, expanded 
under the calyx. Calyx about 3 mm. long shallow saucer- 
shaped; base of the cup about I mm. long gland-setulose 
outside fleshy expanding at the rim into a red somewhat 
membranous undulate fringe glabrous outside and showing 
more or less distinctly 5 irregular rounded lobes setulose 
and glandular on the margin, this fringe apparently sometimes 
Corolla cupular-campanulate open from the base 
corolla, longest about 2.2 cm. ! 
long; anther about 2.5 mm. long; filaments stout widened 
downwards, puberulous from the base through one-third to 
one-fourth the length. Disk glabrous. Gynaeceum about 2.8 
cm. long shorter than corolla longer than stamens; ovary 
conoid truncate deeply grooved densely glandular, glands 
adpressed ovoid orange-coloured somewhat setulose long-stalked 
