Tab. 7373. 



RHODODENDRON Sohlippenbaohii. 



Native of Manchuria and Japan. 



Nat. Ord. Erice^e. — Tribe Rhodore^. 

 Genus Rhododendron, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 599. 



Rhododendron (Azalea) Schlippenbachii ; fruticosa, ramulis robustis glandu- 

 loso-setulosis, foliis ad apices ramulorum sessilibus subverticillatis 

 patulis breviter petiolatia late obovatis subsinuato-lobatis apice obtusis 

 rotundatis v. emarginatis submembranaceis ciliatis, supra pilosis pilis 

 appressis caducis, subtus pallidis costa nervisque pilosis, floribus praecoci- 

 bus v. subpraecocibus umbellatis, pedicellis calyce parum longioribus 

 glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis £ poll, longis oblongis glanduloso- ciliatis, 

 corolla rotato-infundibulari, tubo brevissimo limbi rosei lobis oyatis 3 

 posticis maculatis.staminibus 10 declinatis superioribus sensim longioribus, 

 filamentis basi puberulis, stylo basi glanduloso-piloso, capsula ovoidea 

 Bcabrida 5-loculari, stigmate 5 lobo. 



R. Schlippenbachii, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Sc. Peter sb. vol. xv. (1871) 

 p. 226 {Mel. Biol. vol. vii. p. 333), and in Mem. Acad. Sc. Petersb. vol. xvi. 

 (1870) [Rhod. As. Or.) 29, t. ii. fig. 7-13). Franch. & Sav. Enum. PI. 

 Japan, vol. i. p. 289. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1889) 30. Gard. 

 Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 462, fig. 58. 



B. 'Schlippenbachii was, according to its author, the 

 lamented Maximovicz, discovered by Baron Schlippenbach 

 amongst shrubs on the shores of Possjet Sound in Russian 

 Manchuria. It is also a native of Korea and its Islands, 

 where Oldham collected it on Herschel Island in 1863. 

 It is in cultivation in the city of Jedo, Japan, where it was 

 probably procured from Tsu-sima, and is called by the 

 Japanese horticulturalists Kurofune tsutsusi. From the 

 texture of the foliage it is referable to the Azalea group of 

 the genus, amongst which it is the largest leaved. 



Descr. — A shrub about three to five feet high, densely 

 or loosely branched and leafy. Branches smooth ; young 

 branchlets setose with crisped glandular hairs. Leaves 

 subquinately as it were whorled at the ends of the branch- 

 lets, sessile, of a thin texture and (as in Azalea) produced 



September 1st, 1894. 



