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cupuliform, the margin more or less uneven. Corolla rotato-infundibuliform, 

 dotted at the superior side within below ; the tube rather short ; segments 

 obovato-oblong, longer than the tube. Stamens 10, included, unequal in 

 length ; filament filiform, paleaceo-tomentose below excepting the very base ; 

 \anther elliptical. Style longer than stamens, slender, arcuate upwards, ob- 

 conical towards the stigma ; stigma truncate, 5-lobed ; ovary linear-cylin- 

 drical, glabrous, 5-locular, about 11mm. long. Capsule narrowly cylindric- 

 al, 5-sulcate, about 3 cm. long. Flowers in April- May. 



Hab. Yaeyama Archip. (F. Tasliiro\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, April 1886, flower), Okawa-mura in Isl. Ishikaki {Setsusahuro Ta- 

 naka ! herb. ibid. June 1891, fruit) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. 

 Koishikawa, cult, under the name of SeisJii-Jciva {T. Mahinol Feb. 1904). 



Distrib. Southern China. 



Rhododendron (Azalea) Weyrichii Maxim. Rhod. A?. Orient, p. 

 26, tab. 2, figg. 1-6 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 1. p. 288 ; Forbes 

 et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 32 ; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. 

 Disc. Chin. p. 619. 



Azalea Weyrichii 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. II. p. 387. 



Rhododendron Farrerce a. Weyrichii Diels in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. p. 513. 



Rhododendron shihohiamim Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) 

 p. 53. 



A shrub, attaining about 3m. or more in height, many-branched. 

 Branchlets often verticillate, ferrugineo-rufous. Branchlets of floriferous 

 branches bear usually 3 ( ! ) or rarely 2 leaves at the top ; the binate one 

 is due to the imperfection of the inner leaf, and the 3-nate one is the 

 normal state ; branchlets of sterile branches bear 3 leaves at the top. 

 Flower-bud terminal, rather large, about 19 mm. long, 9 mm. across, conico- 

 ovoid ; perulfe imbricate, ferrugineous, oval-ovate to elliptical, rounded or 

 rounded-obtuse with a cuspidato-mucronate point, fiilvo-villoso-tomentose on 

 margin. Corolla red. Leaves rhombeo-oval, or rhombeo-ovate, mucronato- 

 acute, very thinly disparsed with pale- fulvous villose hairs above, thinly 

 villoso-pubescent beneath, attaining about 8 cm. long, 7 cm. broad in fruit; 

 petiole 6-11 mm. lon^. Capsule conico-cylindrical, adpressed-villoso-pu- 

 hescent, about 17 ram. long. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Sakawa {T. 3Ialdno\), Kochi {T. 



