

38 THE AZALEAS OF THE OLD WORLD 



40. KURAI No HIMO flowers carmine, hose-in-hose 



41. AGEMAKI flowers carmine 



^42. HINODEGIRI flowers bright crimson 



43. AIOI flowers color of almond-blossoms, hose-in- 



hose 



44. SAKURA TSUKASA. . . . , flowers rosy mauve 



45. TAMA No UTENA flowers pale salmon 



46. GOSHO ZAKURA flowers white, striped peach-color 



47. UKAMUSE flowers vermilion, hose-in-hose 



48. HINODE No TAKA .... flowers crimson 



49. OSARAKU SEEDLING . . . flowers white, suffused and margined with 



lavender 



50. HANA ASOBI flowers red 



Rhododendron obtusum var. Kaempferi Wilson, n. comb. 



Azalea indica Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 84 (1784), in part, not Linnaeus. 



Rhododendron Kaempferi Planchon in Fl. des Serr. IX. 77 (1854); in Rev. 

 Hort. 1854. Rehder in Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, II. 29, t. 113 (1907), 

 flowers here represented with more than 5 stamens; in Bailey, Stand. Cycl. 

 Hort. V. 2944, fig. 3393 (1916). Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 

 505, fig. 331 g-k (1911). Bean, Trees and Shrubs Brit. Isl. II. 363 

 (1914). Millais, Rhodod. 197, fig. (1917). Komatsu in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XXXII. [16] (1918). 



Rhododendron Sieboldii Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 33 (1863), exclud- 

 ing varieties; in II. 164 (1865-66); Prol. Fl. Jap. 96 (1866-67). 



Azalea Kaempferi Andre" in Belg. Hort. XV. 184 (1865). 



Rhododendron indicum a. Kaempferi Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. 

 Petersburg, s6r. 7, XVI. No. 9, 38 (Rhodod. As. Or.) (1870). Franchet 

 & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 291 (1875). Matsumura, PL Nikko, 71 

 (1894); Ind. PL Jap. II. pt. 2, 460 (1912). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. 

 Jap. II. t. 61, figs. 1-10 (1908). 



Azalea Indica var. Kaempferi Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1. 122 (1900) ; 

 in Holler's Deutsch. Gartn.-Zeit. XVII. 417, figs. (1902). 



Rhododendron scabrum var. Kaempferi Nakai in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXXIII. 

 208 (1919). 



Rhododendron scabrum var. Kaempferi f. 2. latifolium Nakai in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XXXIII. 209 (1919). 



Rhododendron scabrum var. Kaempferi f. 3. tubiflorum Nakai in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XXXIII. 209 (1919). Komatsu in Icon. Koisikav. IV. 7, t. 216 (1918). 



Rhododendron scabrum var. Kaempferi f . 4. angustifolium Nakai in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XXXIII. 209 (1919). Komatsu in Icon. Koisikav. IV. 31, t. 228 (1918). 



Japan: Kyushu, prov. Osumi, Yaku-shima February 25, 1914, 

 E. H. Wilson (No. 6082); Mt. Kirishima, western slopes, alt. 1000- 

 1500 m., March 8, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6228) ; lower slopes of Nishi- 

 Kirishima, alt. 600 m., May 5, 1918, E. H. Wilson (No. 10,334); 

 foothills round base of Nishi-Kirishima, sea-level to alt. 500 m., May 

 4, 1917, E. H. Wilson (Nos. 10,326, 10,330, 10,334); same general 

 locality, April 29, 1917, Z. Tashiro; prov. Satsuma, Kagoshima, 

 March 15, 1917, E. H. Wilson; same locality, May 6, 1918, E. H. 



