•360 Small. Shrubs and Trees of the Southern States 



are characteristic, being linear or nearly so, instead of manifestly 

 narrowed to the base. The following specimens belong here : 



Texas : [no locality] , Veatcli. 



Tennessee: near Dandridge, July, 1842, Rugcl : — type, in the 



herbarium of Columbia University. 



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Azalea Candida 



A rigid shrub 1—2 m. tall, with wide-branching stems and 

 white-tomentose young foliage, or the twigs sometimes brownish. 

 Leaves numerous ; blades leathery, obovate, oblanceolate or ob- 

 long, 1-5 cm. long, acute or apiculate, ciliate, somewhat revolute, 

 thinly tomentose above, densely white-tomentose and somewhat 

 reticulated beneath, short-petioled : corymbs several -flowered : 

 pedicels canescent and copiously glandular-pubescent : calyx- 

 lobes pectinate-ciliate : corolla rose-colored or pinkish, 3-3.5 cm. 

 long: capsules 1.5-2 cm. long, canescent, curved, longer than 

 their pedicels, often twice as long. 



In hammocks and river swamps, southern Georgia. Spring. 



Related to Azalea nudiftora, but easily distinguished by the 

 copious soft pubescence of the twigs, the white-tomentose leaf- 

 blades, the smaller flowers and the smaller softly and closely 

 pubescent capsules. Collected by the writer along the Withlo- 

 cooche River about Valdosta, Georgia, June 6-12, 1895. Type 

 in the herbarium of Columbia University. 



/ Dendrium Hugeri 



An evergreen shrub 2-4 dm. tall, with erect much branched 

 stems. Leaves mainly alternate ; blades leathery, oblong, I— 1-5 

 cm. long, lustrous and dark green above, paler beneath, obtuse, 

 revolute, somewhat obliquely narrowed into petioles 1-2 mm. long: 

 flower-clusters dense : bracts oblong-ovate, 3 mm. long, obtuse : 

 pedicels 5-10 mm. long, minutely glandular: calyx nearly gla- 

 brous ; lobes lanceolate, about 1 mm. long, acute : corolla white ; 

 lobes ovate, 4 mm. long, obtuse : filaments club-shaped, as long as 

 the corolla-lobes: capsules ovoid, 4-4.5 mm - long, glabrous or 

 nearly so, obtusely lobed, twice as long as the calyx-lobes, ab- 

 ruptly contracted into the stoutish style which is about as long as 

 the capsule-body. 



On cliffs and rocky mountain summits, North and South Car- 

 olina. Spring and early summer. <■ 



This overlooked species is most closely related to Dendrium 



