Teva 
142 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Rh. mgropunctatum to which Franchet (in 1891) drew particular 
attention as a unique character is now known in several other 
species discovered since. 
Rhododendron syncollum,* Balf. f. et Forrest.+ 
shrub as much as 3m. high with medium-thick straight 
branchlets. Young branches densely floccose and glandular ; 
ranches a year old about 3.5 mm. in diameter red glabrescent 
but with vestiges of the early flocks and glands; older branches 
quite glabrous glossy. Foliage-buds elongated fusiform pointed ; 
outer scale-leaves crustaceous reddened outside rounded about 
9 mm. long keeled shortly apiculate at the rounded summit, 
more or less tomentose-floccose outside, inside silky at the top, 
margin floccose-ciliate densely tomentose around the apiculus ; 
inner scale-leaves membranous yellow with darker middle line 
ligulate-spathulate about 3 cm. long 8 mm. broad obtuse or 
rounded with an apiculus, outer surface crumbling, inside with 
simple hairs towards the top, margin floccose-ciliate ; young 
foliage-leaves in bud revolute on both sides densely floccose and 
glandular with globose or ovoid red or orange shortly-stalked 
glands, petiole clad like the lamina. Leaves petiolate as much 
as Io cm. long; lamina leathery lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 
late as much as 9 cm. long 3.5 cm. broad somewhat beaked at 
apex with a prominent hydathodal mucro, margin cartilaginous 
plane or slightly recurved, base obtuse ; upper surface dark 
§reen somewhat opaque shagreened ‘not rugulose glabrescent 
but with traces of juvenile glands and hairs, midrib grooved 
trorum perulae extimae rotundatae apiculatae extus rubescentes et plus 
minusve floccosi ciliati, intimae ligulatae-spathulatae flavidae ; folia juvenilia 
utrinque cum petiolo dense glandulosa et floccosa. a petiolata ad 10 cI 
longa ; lamina coriacea lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata ad 9 cm. longa 3.5 cm 
lata subrostrata, margine a, io ; supra atroviridis opaca haud 
igulosa glabrescens vestigiis glandul lorum a; fo- 
cinmnamomea laevis ns nune i 
Puberulus ; lobi lati ad 1 cm. longi 2.3 cm. lati paullo undulati et crenulati. 
_ Stamina to inaequalia corolla staminibusque breviora ; filamenta villosa. Discus 
ceum circ. 2.6 cm. longum corolla brevius ; ovarium circ. 3.5 mm. 
