132 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
cm. broad somewhat narrowed at the summit and there somewhat 
acute or sub-apiculate and ending in a horny hydathodal mucro, 
margin recurved, base cordulate or rounded ; upper surface dark 
green mat shagreened (when dry) midrib grooved the groove 
filled with floccose withered hairs, primary veins some 12 on 
each side hardly grooved, rest of surface glabrescent marked 
more or less with vestiges of fallen floccose hairs ; under surface 
glossy at first white then becoming buff or brown along the mid- 
rib, later dull brown all over, midrib stout prominent tinted pink 
and with floccose adpressed hairs, primary veins hidden by in- 
dumentum, indumentum bistrate of long-stalked long-branched 
hairs in the upper stratum their branches becoming agglutinated 
into a smooth white shining surface canopy over the lower 
stratum of sessile rosette-hairs with short vesicular branches, 
as leaf oldens the upper indumentum splits into areolae of 
irregular shape which become brown and expose the under 
stratum in the chinks but are not detersile ; petiole about I cm. 
long rarely longer, at maturity glabrescent retaining for a time 
some vestiges of juvenile floccose hairs, wrinkled often dark 
black-purple or bright red. Inflorescence a small compact umbel 
of some 8-10 rosy red-spotted flowers ; flower-bud globose ; outer 
bracts rounded crustaceous winged densely lanate pubescent 
outside floccose-ciliate, inner bracts obovate-spathulate about 
2 cm. long 8 mm. broad submembranous with rounded apiculate 
summit softly silkily pubescent all over and ciliate ; bracteoles 
soon falling linear about 7 mm. long densely pilose: pedicels short 
about I cm. long glabrous. Calyx minute cupular about 1.5 
mm. long glabrous; cup hardly expanded into an undulated 
margin. Corolla campanulate rose with deep crimson spots 
posteriorly about 3 cm. long glabrous outside, pubescent inside, 
5-lobed ; lobes short and broad about 8 mm. long 2 cm. broad 
somewhat unequal the antero-lateral pair slightly the smaller, 
eMarginate undulate. Stamens Io-unequal much shorter than 
corolla, longest about 2 cm. long with anther 3.5 mm. long, 
“shortest 1.4 cm. long with anther 3 mm. long ; filament flattened 
and broad at base, prominently villous from base through half 
the length in shorter ones much less so in longer ones. Disk 
conspicuous puberulous. Gynaeceum short about 2 cm. long 
about equalling longest stamens ; ovary conoid truncate about 
3-5 mm. long dark purple (when dry) glabrous; style stout 
glabrous not clavate at top but flattened into a disk which 
forms a lip to the discoid lobulate stigma. 
W.N. Yunnan. Mountains north of Atuntzu. Lat. 28° 35. 
N. Alt. 14,000 ft. Open rocky situations. Shrub of 3-4 ft. 
Flowers deep rose with crimson markings. G. Forrest. No. 
14,094. June 1gI7. 
