138 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
laginous reflexed obscurely undulate, base trunculate or rounded ; 
upper surface olive-brown glabrescent somewhat shagreened 
(when dry), but with withered remains of juvenile floccose hairs 
particularly in groove of midrib, primary veins hardly visible 
about 14 on each side; under surface dark buff-coloured with a 
reddened especially at base much elevated midrib and bright 
red primary veins hardly raised, the whole covered with a very 
thin indumentum of loose much-branched flock-like greasy 
rufous-brown hairs the branches interwoven, intermixed with 
red clavate short-stalked glands, the midrib less floccose : petiole 
dark red grooved gland-setulose and floccose as much as I. 5 cm. 
long. Inflorescence an umbel of about 10 flowers the axis 
densely floccose; the outermost small crustaceous rounded 
bracts followed by several tailed ones with glandular outer 
surface, the inner ones obovate or ovate or oblong cucullate 
rounded at apex and apiculate about 1.5 cm. long densely seri- 
ceous outside and inside more or less persistent during flowering ; 
bracteoles very small about 7 mm. long filiform pilose throughout 
eglandular ; pedicels as much as 2 cm. long glandular with 
stalked red ovoid glands and with a few floccose hairs. Calyx 
somewhat foliaceous red about 1 cm. long ; basal cup 3 mm. 
long with 5 unequal membranous ligulate lobes rounded at top, 
the two postero-lateral about 7 mm. long and 3 mm. broad double 
the length of the others, glandular outside, floccose-ciliate and 
glandular-ciliate. Corolla funnel-shaped creamy-white crimson- 
lined at base inside about 3.5 cm. long, glabrous outside, puberu- 
lous inside 5-lobed ; lobes rounded about 1.8 cm. long 2.2 cm. 
broad. Stamens 10 unequal shorter than corolla and gynaeceum, 
longest about 3 cm. long with oblong anther about 3 mm. long, 
shortest about 1.8 cm. long with anther 2. 5 mm. long ; filaments 
slightly broadened to base and from the base puberulous, in 
shortest stamens to beyond middle in longest to a shorter dis- 
tance. Disk puberulous. Gynaeceum about 3.2 cm. long slightly 
shorter than corolla ; ovary about 3 mm. long, conoid truncate 
grooved densely setulose-glandular : style puberulous at base 
nay expanded and forming a lip below the discoid lobulate 
_ stigma. 
W.N.W. Yunnan. Mekong-Salween divide. Lat. 28° 20’ N. 
Alt. 12,000-13,000 ft. In open thickets and pine forests. Shrub 
of 5-9 ft. Flowers creamy white, lined crimson at base. G. 
Forrest. No. 14,066. June IQI7. 
: A species which seems to have more characters connecting 
it with the Selense series than with other series. Its chief 
difference from that series is the under-leaf indumentum which 
_ With its long branched rufous floccose hairs forms a distinct 
__ dayer over the underlying glands and then it has a large distinct 
