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Plant depressed, attaining about |m. in height, densely- 

 ramose; branches verticillate ; brahchlets adpressed- setose. 

 Leaves dense, coriaceous, broadly obovato-elliptical to oblanceo- 

 late, often lato-lanceolate and membranaceous in those of the 

 innovations, mucronato- obtuse or acute, cuneate towards the 

 base, dispersedly adpressed-pilose, adpressed-ciliated, green above, 

 paler beneath, very shortly' petiolate, 5— 25mm. long, 3— 13mm. 

 wide. Umbel few to several flowered ; peduncles erect-patent, 

 adpressed-pilose, about 5-lOmm. long, but about 7— 12mm. long 

 in fruit. Sepals minute, orbicular to ovate, rounded-obtuse, 

 white-villose, green, persistent, 1|— 3mm. long in fruit. Corolla 

 red-purple, infundibuliform-campanulate, about 2-2fcm. across, 

 the 3 posterior lobes oval and the 2 anterior lobes elliptical. 

 Stamens 5, hardly longer than the corolla. Style exserted, 

 longer than the stamens. Ovary^ densely villose. Capsule 

 small, attenuato-ovate, about 6-9mm. long, adpressed-pilose. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-kirishima (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Hyuga : Mt. Kirishima (J. Katsuge !) ; Pro v. 

 HiZEN : Mt. Unzen {Z. Tashiro ! ; M. Yamasaki !) ; Prov. HiGO : 

 Mt. Aso (T. Makino !). 



An alpine and alpestrine one. 



Rhododendron serpyllifolium Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 

 97 ; Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. p. 42, tab. 4, fig. 18-25 ; Franch. 

 et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 292 ; Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. tab. 

 7503. 



Azalea serpyllifolia A. Gray in Perry, Exped. Jap. II. p. 315, 

 et in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts a. Sc. N. Ser. YI. (1859) p. 399 ; 

 Masters in Card. Chron. (1882) I. p. 429 ; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. II. p. 386. 



var. albiflorum Makino, var. nov. 



Branches laxer. Leaves more or less larger and laxer, pubes 

 denser. Flower white. 



Nom. Jap. Shirobana-unzentsutsuji (nov.). 



Hah. Japan, western, mountains. 



{To he continued.) 



