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RHODODENDRON  Kersket. 
Japan. 
Ericaceak. ‘Tribe RHODOREAE. 
RwopovEnpron, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599. 
Rhododendron Keiskei, Mig. Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 75; Maxim. in Mém, Acad, 
imp. Sc. St. Pétersb., T°° série, vol. xvi. (1870), p- 23, t. 4, f. 11-17; species 
ex affinitate 2. triflori, Hook. f., a quo differt pedicellis brevioribus, floribus 
a ealycis lobis brevissimis, et corollae intus epunctatae tubo 
reviore. 
Frutex 1-2-metralis, dense ramosus, ramis rigidis primum parce lepidotis. 
Folia biennia, coriacea, breviter petiolata petiolis rubris, lanceolata vel 
oblongo-lanceolata, cum petiolo 3-7 cm. longa, vix acuta, basi cuneata, 
- rotundata vel interdum subcordata, supra parce obscureque lepidota, 
__ subtus pallidiora, crebre distincteque lepidota. lores flavi, 4-5 em. 
_ diametro, 3-5 aggregati, pedicellis lepidotis longiores. Calycis lobi lati, 
brevissimi, rotundati. Corolla late campanulata, extra parce lepidota, 
intus epunctata, tubo brevi, lobis aequalibus ovato-oblongis obtusis. 
Stamina 10, quam corolla breviora, declinata, filamentis filiformibus infra 
medium parce puberulis, antheris aurantiacis. Ovariwm 5-loculare, 
densissime lepidotum, stylo glabro recurvo. Capsula angusta, fere 
cylindrica, circiter 1 em. longa.—W. Botting Hemsuey. : 
There are in the. herbarium collection at Kew only two 
wild specimens named FR. Keiskei; one of these, in flower, 
was collected by the late Mr. Maximowicz on the volcanic 
mountain Wunzen, in 1863; the other, in fruit, is from 
Mt. Tchako, in the province of Tosa, and was communicated 
, by the College of Science, Tokyo University, in 1893. The 
ai now figured was obtained for Kew from a nursery in 
okohama in 1908, and flowered in a pot in an unheated 
frame in April, 1909. From this plant the flowering speci- 
men originally collected by Maximowicz differs in the calyx- 
lobes being more distinctly developed and fringed on the 
margin, in the stamens and style being relatively longer, 
exceeding the corolla, and in the leaves being slightly hairy 
along the midrib on the upper side. The fruiting specimen 
received in 1893 differs in the petioles being furnished with 
two rows of long weak bristles which form a conspicuous 
Frsruary, 1910. 
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