130 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
petiolate as much as 10.5 cm. long; lamina thinly leathery 
narrowly oblong as much as 9.5 cm. long 2.5 cm. broa 
narrowed to a shortly apiculate tip, margin cartilaginous 
recurved, base obtuse or slightly rounded ; upper surface olive- 
green mat with a grooved midrib lined by withered hairs and 
glands, primary veins about 12 on each side hardly visible, 
the surface generally glabrous but with traces of the bases 
of juvenile hairs and glands; under surface a uniform rusty 
red the midrib prominent and coloured like rest of surface and 
very glandular (the young leaves are a yellow-green beneath) 
whole surface covered with a dense bistrate-indumentum of 
hairs, hairs of the upper stratum dendriform much-branched 
the stalk not stout the branches cylindric thick-walled un- 
dulate and curving interlocking and forming a loose canopy 
to the lower stratum of rosettes of short cylindric thin-walled 
hairs intermixed with a few red ovoid shortly-stalked glands, 
the upper stratum often deciduous, the surface of the indumen- 
tum always somewhat honeycombed, never smooth and suéde- 
like, never shining or agglutinate ; petiole as much as 1.5 cm. 
long grooved above stout wrinkled red often very dark 
red, glandular and floccose more or less. Inflorescence a 
small racemose-umbel of some 8 flowers with rhachis 8 mm. 
long glandular and floccose the hairs rufous; bracts and brac- 
teoles unknown; pedicels about 1.8 cm. long very oblique 
to axis of flower glandular with stalked red ovoid glands and 
with a few greasy short-branched floccose hairs. Calyx small 
very glandular cupular about 1.5 mm. long fleshy 5-lobed ; 
lobes deltoid about half the length of the calyx. Corolla 
campanulate white flushed rose with crimson spots about 3.7 
cm. long somewhat fleshy posteriorly, glabrous inside and 
outside 5-lobed ; lobes rounded emarginate somewhat crenulate 
about 1.2 cm. long 1.5 cm. broad. Stamens 10 unequal 
shorter than corolla and §ynaeceum ; filaments widened to 
base and puberulous from base to above middle in the shorter 
Stamens. Disk puberulous. Gynaeceum about 3 cm. long a 
little shorter than corolla ; Ovary conoid truncate grooved 
about 5 mm. long densely glandular with long-stalked globose 
and ovoid glands ; style glabrous at the top somewhat clavate 
and forming a lip to the discoid lobulate stigma. . 
W.N.-W.-Yunnan. Mountains N. of Atuntzu. Lat. 28° 35’ 
N. Alt. 13,000 Te. fg Open pine forest. Shrub of 6-8 ft. 
Flowers white flushed rose with few markings. G. Forrest. 
No. 13,971A. June 1917. my 
_ S.E. Tibet. Tsarong. On Ka-gwr-pw, Mekong-Salween 
divide. Lat. 28° 25’ N. Alt. II,000-12,000 ft. Open pine 
forest and in cane brakes. Shrub of 6-9 ft. Flowers white 
