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BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Rh. dasypetalum., 
Leaves small at most 1.5 cm. long 
mm. broad. 
Leaf vgsaaneBey buff-coloured 
with —_unifor concolorous 
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Rh. russatum. 
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Leaf ee de rk ru sset- 
Leaves larger ee 3 cm. long 
d 1.4 cm. bro 
coloured with Livclarcne a cates 
a 
red compact 
umbels with pedicsts about 2 
scales. 
oes in terminal 2-flowered 
mbels with pedicels about 4.5 
. lon - mm. long. 
Bracteoles longer than pedicels 
calyx. 
Calyx-lobes green glabrous inside. 
mm. jong. 
Bracteoles much shorter than 
Calys-lobes purple puberulous 
Corolla pilose po a limb and Corolla pilose on the tube outside. 
of lobes o 
amens shorter as 
Stam rolla. Stamens longer than corolla. 
Style barely longer ‘hak ‘colle 
Style much longer than corolla. 
Rhododendron russotinctum, Balf. f. et Forrest.* 
Shrub 1-2.5 m. high with straight virgate twigs. Young 
branches densely glandular with long stalked red ovoid glands 
very sticky mixed with much-branched dendriform hairs with 
cylindric undulate and curled branches; branches a year old 
dark red about 3 mm. in diameter glabrescent the leaf-scales 
of the foliage-bud persisting for a year or two. dessin ase 
thin narrow sharp-pointed with few scale-leaves; outermost 
ovate or rounded keeled apiculate or 
with branched hairs outside like those of stem, margin ciliate ; ~ 
intermediate scales oblong-oval or oboval with a short apiculus ; 
innermost ligulate-spathulate yellow membranous acuminate 
as much as 3 cm. long 5 mm. broad glandular on back and also 
with branched greasy hairs, margin long-ciliate ; young leaves 
revolute, upper surface sparingly red-glandular and floccose, 
under surface densely so the hairs in two strata. Leaves 
ne * Rhododendron yussotinctum, Balf. f. et Forrest.—Frutex ad 2.5 m. altus 
utinosis glandulas rubras plurimas et pilos De Miisieaes 
trorum perulae apt minusve persis- 
na anguste oblonga 2.5 cm 
I = cm. longi 
in umbellam circ. 8-floram racemosam dis 
Corolla Sdacpatielata alba 
gl floccosi. Calyx parvus glandulosus. 
et sparsim maculata circ. 3.7 cm. longa intus puberula 5-loba. 
Stamina ro inacqualia ; Ee ewereey ta pu us puberulus. Gynaeceum 
cire. 3 cm. rol ius staminit ovarium dense glandulosum ; 
