BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 127 
with stalked peltate scales, the scales or their remains appearing 
as black warts.on the dirty grey older branches. Foliage-buds 
small about 3 mm. long narrowly ovoid pointed surrounded 
by 2 or 3 dwarfed foliage-leaves, scale-leaves few about 6, outer- 
most elongated triangular eciliate densely brown-lepidote out- 
side, inner more membranous profusely ciliate oblong obtuse 
cucullate ; young leaves convolute. Leaves petiolate as much 
as 3 cm. long; lamina thickly leathery concave downwards, 
oblong-elliptic or oblong-oval as much as 2.5 cm. long and 1.4 
cm. broad obtuse slightly narrowed or rounded at the apex 
and deflexedly mucronate, margin hardly recurved, base broadly 
cuneate or obtuse ; upper surface plane dark green opaque with 
a bronze tint from the indumentum of small uniform almost 
contiguous peltate scales, the scales sessile with broad convex 
umbo filled with amber-coloured secretion and an equally broad 
translucent fringe, midrib grooved epilose lined by the scales, 
some primary veins showing faintly; under surface bright 
russet-brown lepidote with contiguous imbricate stalked peltate 
scales with broad convex umbo and equally wide fringe, all 
scales infiltrated with red or orange secretion, the red-tinted 
ones larger and projecting slightly over and equally intermixed 
with the others as conspicuous points, midrib conspicuous ; 
petiole lepidote like the stem as much as 5 mm. long. Flowers 
in about 6-flowered compact capituliform umbels at the end of 
the branchlets ; bracts more or less persistent during flowering, 
outermost crustaceo-coriaceous broadly ovate shortly acuminate 
keeled, on the back densely rufously lepidote and puberulous, 
inside sericeous, ciliate, intermediate rotundate about 8 mm. 
long and broad, innermost fertile membranous pale yellow- 
brown oblong cuneate or obovate somewhat truncate at apex 
and slightly apiculate, elepidote on back but densely puberulous, 
hairs of the ciliate summit often red and greasy; bracteoles 
filiform brown shortly adpressedly pilose and hair-crested about 
7 mm. long, longer than calyx ; pedicels very short about 2 mm. 
long puberulous and with a few white translucent concave 
peltate scales. Calyx about 5 mm. long, cupular membranous 
5-partite almost to the base ; cup about 0.5 mm. long glabrous 
or finely puberulous outside sometimes with one or two peltate 
scales ; lobes obovate-oblong or oblong obtuse erose pale 
yellowish-green glabrous inside, finely puberulous outside with 
a line of peltate scales along middle or elepidote, setulose-ciliate 
with sometimes a few peltate scales also on margin. Corolla 
about 1.5 cm. long deep purple-blue with a white throat produced 
by the profuse white hair-tufts on the staminal filaments, elepi- 
dote ; tube funnel-shaped about 5 mm. long pubescent outside, 
puberulous inside, hardly fleshy, expanded upwards into a patent 
