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146 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF RHODODENDRON. 
Rhododendron temenium,* Balf. f. et Forrest. 
Small shrub about 1 m. high with stiff erect branches 
bearing terminal rosettes of 5~7 leaves which persist for two 
ears their position on older branches marked by nodulose 
swellings at intervals along the branch, the swellings being 
formed by the clustered nodes of the foliage-leaves at the end 
of the branches. Branches of the year about 2 mm. in diameter 
dark purple-red densely clad with reddish brown bristle-like hairs 
covering a lower stratum of fewer scattered short-branched 
whitish or reddish floccose hairs,. branches a year old about 
3 mm. in diameter greyish with blackened vestiges of the juvenile 
bristles and flocks, older branches soon decorticating. Outer 
scale-leaves of foliage-bud hard crustaceous rounded or elliptic 
or oblong-elliptic as much as 6 mm. long truncate apiculate 
falling as bud opens, inner ones ligulate-spathulate membranous 
blunt carried up on elongating shoot but soon falling leaving 
shoot leafless below the end-rosette, all floccosely puberulous 
outside, sericeous inside towards apex, margin ciliate with 
twisted branched floccose hairs ; foliage-leaves in bud revolute 
floccosely pubescent on both surfaces more densely on under 
surface. Leaves petiolate as much as 6.5 cm. long clustered in 
a pseudo-whorl at the end of each year’s growth ; lamina thinly 
leathery oblong or oblong-oval sometimes narrowly oboval 6 cm. 
long 2 cm. broad, often less 3 cm. by 1 cm., rounded at apex 
and conspicuously mucronulate, margin cartilaginous floccosely 
ciliate at first then eciliate and slightly notched, base obtuse 
or slightly rounded ; upper surface dark green glabrous but for 
the floccose vestiges in the grooved midrib, primary veins about 
8 on each side ascending sharply from midrib hardly visible ; 
under surface paler tawny (in dried specimens) with very promi- 
nent red-tinted midrib and slightly raised similarly tinted 
filamenta glabra. Gynaeceum corolla paullo longius; ovarium floccis rufis 
ulisque intermixtis dense vestitum ; stylus glaber in discum latum sub 
