134 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
lepidote with shortly stalked membranous concave peltate scales, 
epilose, indumentum of twigs a year old dark-brown, blackening 
on older dark-grey branches. Scale-leaves of the foliage-buds few 
outer broadly cordate or rounded inner obovate membranous 
straw-coloured truncate at apex, inside sericeous, outside 
sparingly lepidote at top, ciliate ; young leaves convolute densely 
lepidote on both sides, puberulous on midrib towards base, ciliate; 
petiole lepidote grooved puberulous in the groove. Leaves 
petiolate as much as 1.5 cm. long; lamina thickly coriaceous 
oblong-oval or obovate as much as 1.4 cm. long 6 mm. broad 
rounded or obtuse at apex recurved mucronulate, margin carti- 
laginous recurved obscurely undulate or crenate glabrous some- 
times ciliate at base, base obtuse or broadly cuneate ; upper 
surface dark-green usually opaque lepidote with discontiguous 
uniform white drying sessile scales with broad convex umbo 
and equally broad translucent fringe, midrib grooved groove 
puberulous towards base ; under surface rufescent and blotched 
or somewhat punctulate lepidote with contiguous imbricate 
stalked bicoloured intermixed and somewhat irregularly distri- 
buted peltate scales (the stalks sunk in pits), some with the broad 
umbo infiltrated with scintillating bright red secretion the 
fringe equally broad and tinted, others orange or paler tinted, 
midrib prominent less lepidote ; petiole lepidote like the young 
stem, grooved above and there puberulous about 1 mm. long. 
Flowers in terminal umbels of about 4 flowers; bracts falling 
off at flowering, unknown; bracteoles more persistent pale 
brown membranous linear-clavate ciliate lepidote on back at the 
clavate end, hair-crested about 7 mm. long longer than pedicels 
hardly as long as calyx ; pedicels about 4 mm. long dark-purple 
more or less lepidote with large seal-like whitish peltate scales. 
Calyx cupular about 6.5 mm. long 5-partite ; cup about 0.5 mm. 
long densely lepidote outside; lobes subequal membranous 
greenish or yellowish or pink oblong obtuse truncate or rounded 
at apex glabrous inside, lepidote along the middle of back, margin 
and summit fringed more or less and lanately ciliate. Corolla 
purple-rose zygomorphous somewhat lipped about 1.8 cm. long 
epilose outside and lepidote ; tube widely funnel-shaped about 
5 mm. long finely puberulous at throat expanding into a 
5-lobed somewhat erect concave limb; lobes unequal oblong- 
ovate lobulate with a rounded top lepidote along the midrib 
with many large seal-like peltate scales, posterior shortest 
about 7 mm. long and 8 mm. broad, anterb-lateral as much as 
g mm. long. Stamens ro about same length as corolla alter- 
corollinum villosa. Discus puberulus. Gynaeceum circ. 2.1 cm. longum 
corolla staminibusque multo longius ; ovarium conoideo-truncatum circ. 2.5 mm. 
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