Tas. 5905. 
RHODODENDRON srnensz. 
Native of Japan and N. China, 
Nat. Ord. Ertcea.—Tribe RHODODENDRES. 
Genus Ruopopenpron, Linn. ; (Mazximowicz in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. Petersb., 
vol. xvi. No. 9, p. 13). 
RuopopenprRon (Azalea) Sinense; ramulis petiolis pedunculisque setoso- 
pilosis, foliis obovato-v. oblanceolato-oblongis obtusis glanduloso-apicu- 
latis pilosis hirsutisve nervis utrinque coste ad 10 patulis parallelis, 
floribus 5-10 subprecocibus’ umbellatis longe pedunculatis, sepalis 
brevibus ovatis ciliatis, corolla infundibulari-campanulata extus 
puberula ad medium 5-loba, lobis elliptico-ovatis, stamihibus 5 stylo 
vix brevioribus, capsula ovoideo-oblonga profunde sulcata parce setosa 
lucida. : 
RuopopENDRON sinense, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., vol. iii. t. 290. Mazximowice. lc. 
RuopopenDroN molle, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat., part 2, p. 181. 
Azauea sinensis, Lodd. Bot. Cab. vol. ix. t. 885. 
AZALEA mollis, Bl. Bijdr. 853. Regel Gartenfl. 1867, p. 289, t. 556. 
AZALEA japonica, A. Gray, in Mem. Amer. Acad. Sc. vol. vi. p. 400. 
Botanists are now pretty well agreed in considering that 
Azalea can no longer be considered a distinct genus from 
Rhododendron ; the characters taken from habit, foliage, form 
of corolla, number of stamens and ovarian cells, which have 
hitherto been used to distinguish Azalea, all reappearing, 
singly or several together, in many of the numerous species 
of Rhododendron that have lately been discovered in Northern 
India, the Malayan Islands, China, and Japan. I have there- 
fore followed the eminent Japanese traveller and botanist, 
Maximowicz, who published only last year a most elaborate 
monograph of the Rhododendree, in assuming Sweet's old 
name of Rhododendron sinense for the Azalea mollis of more 
recent authors. 
JUNE Ist, 1871. 
