NOTES ON SHRUBS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES 

 By W. W. Ashe 



Azalea speciosa Willd. It was suggested in Notes on Azalea pub- 

 lished in this journal 38: 90. 1922) that this handsome plant might 

 be looked for in Jackson County, North Carolina. It has recently 

 been foi\nd in jMacon County, which adjoins Jackson County, thus 

 extending its limited known distribution into another state. Azalea 

 speciosa resembles A. cal endulacea Torr. but has a more slender cor- 

 olla tube, which is not glandular viscid, as is that of calendulacea, and 

 has smaller and relatively broader leaves. Its flowers also are always 

 a brilliant crimson, never yellow or orange. Plants have been col- 

 lected and it is now in cultivation. It should be in all collections of 

 azaleas wherever it will be hardy. Of this plant Rehder (Azal. of 

 N. A. 132) says that though it was introduced into cultivation more 

 than a century ago and described and figured by European botanists 

 it had never been recognized by an American botanist prior to 1916, 

 having been confused with A. calendulacea or with A. midi flora. In 

 1792 it was figured by Sims as a variety of nudiflora and in 1811 it 

 was described by Willdenow from plants growing in the Berlin 

 Botanical Garden. The first known collection of wild plants was by 

 Michaux about 25 miles above Savannah, Ga., where it is one of the 

 most common species. 



Rohinia Unakae sp. nov. A shrub 2-6 dm. high, propagating by 

 seed as well as by underground stems, and with slender, geniculate, 

 hispid, usually simple, shoots or the shoots sparingly branched near 

 the top ; the young twigs and shoots, rachis, peduncle, pedicel and 

 calyx hispid with weak yellow or purplish setae. Leaves of 7-11 

 broadly ovate or broadly elliptic glabrous leaflets, 3-5.4 cm. long, or 

 the terminal leaflet sometimes larger and nearly orbicular, thin but 

 firm, slightly bronze on unfolding. Racemes numerous, short, spread- 

 ing or drooping, 2-4-flowered, peduncles 2-3 cm. long., pedicels very 

 slender, longer than the calyx ; flowers white and rose-purple, but not 

 showy, large, 22-24 mm, long; calyx broad, tube short, 3-4 mm. long, 

 lobes long-acuminate, more than one-third length of flower. Fruit 

 mostly solitary at the ends of peduncles, 3-7 cm. long, thick, very 



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