140 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
narrowed towards the obtuse or somewhat rounded apex occa- 
sionally narrowed to both ends and somewhat lanceolate 
obscurely mucronulate, margin recurved obscurely notched, 
base obtuse ; upper surface dark green usually opaque in dry 
state as if contiguously pitted each pit occupied by a more or 
less dried-up peltate scale, the scales adpressed with a broad 
umbo uncoloured or infiltrated with orange-coloured secretion 
and then scintillating and an equally broad translucent. whitish 
fringe, midrib invisible or slightly grooved at the base; under 
surface tawny clothed with an indumentum of contiguous or 
here and there slightly discontiguous bicolorous scales equally 
mixed, some scintillating with the umbo. and fringe rufous 
projecting above the others which have a yellow annulus and 
uncoloured fringe, midrib slightly elevated; petiole about 
2 mm. long lepidote like the young stem. Flowers 1-2 almost 
sessile at end of twigs; bracts few more or less persistent at 
flowering, outer crustaceous broadly rounded membranously 
winged apiculate pale brown rufously lepidote outside, puberulous 
on the wing, ciliate, silky within, innermost membranaceous 
chestnut-brown oblong about 5 mm. long 4 mm. broad hooded 
truncate and emarginate lanately ciliate, at top lepidote and 
puberulous outside, silky inside towards top; pedicel hardly 
half a millimetre long densely lepidote. Calyx minute fleshy 
barely 0.5 mm. long cupular epilose densely rufously lepidote ; 
lobes 5 most minute as dentiform or rounded most densely lepi- 
dote projections on margin of the cup. Corolla violet-coloured 
subrotate about 8 mm. long outside epilose sparingly lepidote ; 
tube campanulate about 2 mm. long, the throat puberulous 
spreading into an open 5-lobed limb; lobes rounded undulate 
about 5 mm. ong 4 mm. broad. Stamens ro unequal alter- 
nately long and short shorter than corolla, longer about 6 mm. 
long with purple anther about 1 mm. long ; filaments slightly 
widened downwards, naked base about 1 mm. long, above and 
within the corolla-tube puberulous. Disk puberulous below the 
ovary. Gynaeceum about 1 cm. long longer than corolla and 
stamens ; Ovary about 2 mm. long cylindrico-conoid truncate 
grooved densely lepidote with yellowing scales - style purple 
glabrous expanded ‘under the discoid lobulate stigma. Capsule 
pale brown lepidote oblong 4 mm. long 1.75 mm. in diameter 
dehiscing from apex to base by 5 valves. 
W. Szechwan. Principality of Batang. Yaragong. High 
mountains. Soulié, No. 3303. June 1903. In Herb. Paris. 
Another new species of the Lapponicum series from the high 
mountain regions in the west of Szechwan bordering on Tibet 
Yaragong is in lat. 29° 30’ long. 99° 20’. It is one of the set 
of species in which the under-leaf indumentum shows con- 
