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cincta Van Houtte (in Fl des Serr. XI. 211, 1. 1180 (1856)), are probably seedlings 

 from Azalea indica variegata. So too are Azaleas " Gledstanesii," " Iveryana," 

 "Charles Encke " and " Reine Louise." In fact this var. variegatum was the 

 parent of most of the best "Indian Azaleas" cultivated up to about 1850. Ac- 

 cording to Hovey the var. variegatum was introduced into Boston, Mass., in 1838, 

 and for many years was a familiar and much admired plant at exhibitions. It is 

 still cultivated in the Holm Lea collection, so also are the above mentioned named 

 forms. These Azaleas were famous in their day and have been grown in this coun- 

 try for more than seventy years. "Gledstanesii" was raised by Metesers Rollis- 

 son of Tooting and exhibited for the first time in London on May 15, 1841. It 

 was imported into this country by Hovey & Co., Boston, Mass., who exhibited it 

 before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on May 2, 1846. In England the 

 var. variegatum appears to have been lost to cultivation until quite recently, when 

 it was reintroduced under the name used by Millais. 



A curious and abnormal form is: 



Rhododendron indicum f . polypetalum Wilson, n. comb. 



Rhododendron indicum 7. macranthum c. polypetalum Maximowicz in Mem. 

 Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, se>. 7, XVI. No. 9, 40 (Rhodod. As. Or.) (1870). 



Cultivated: Hongkong Bot. Gard. May 20, 1919, W. J. Tutcher. 



I have seen the Herb. Kew co-type of this curious plant with its petaloid, deeply 

 laciniate calyx and no corolla. In Japan its vernacular name is " Kin-no-zai." I 

 have not seen this plant nor the following, which has a proper calyx and a deeply 

 laciniate corolla. 



Rhododendron indicum f . laciniatum Wilson, n. comb. 



Rhododendron indicum y. macranthum subvar. b. lateritium f. laciniatum 

 Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 110 (1910). 



Makino gives " Shide-satsuki " as the Japanese name of this curious form. 

 Komatsu enumerates several other forms, but the only other it is necessary to 

 mention here is the very distinct: 



Rhododendron indicum var. crispiflorum Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. II. 506 (1911). Render in Bailey, Stand. Cycl Hart. V. 

 2944 (1916). 



Azalea crispiflora Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXXIX. t. 4726 (1853). Lemaire, 

 Jard. Fl. IV. t. 430 (1854). Hovey, Mag. Hort. XXIII. 70 (1857); XXIV. 

 141 (1858). 



Azalea indica crispiflora Van Houtte in Fl. des Serr. IX. t. ad p. 79 (1854). 



Rhododendron crispiflorum Planchon in FL des Serr. IX. 83 (1854); in Rev. 

 Hort. 1854, 67. 



This interesting variety has thicker leaves than the type and the wavy margins 

 of its corolla give it a distinct appearance. The Azalea indica var. grandiflora 

 Blume, of which there is a specimen in Herb. Kew collected by Thomas Lobb, is 

 similar, but the margin of the corolla is not wavy. R. indicum var. crispiflorum, 

 was introduced into England from China by Robert Fortune to the nursery of 

 Messers Standish & Noble in 1850 or 1851. It was imported from England .to 

 Boston, Mass., in 1855 by C. M. Hovey; soon afterwards a plant was acquired by 

 Ignatius Sargent, Esq., father of Professor C. S. Sargent, and descendants of the 



