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Azalea indica vittata punctata Van Houtte in Fl. des Serr. IX. t. 888 (1854). 

 Rhododendron vittatum Planchon in FL des Serr. IX. 82 (1854); in Rev. Hort. 



1854, 66. Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, XVI. 



No. 9, 49 (Rhodod. As. Or.) (1870). Millais, Rhodod. 259 (1917). 

 Rhododendron vittatum var. b. punctata Planchon, in Fl. des Serr. IX. 82 (1854) ; 



in Rev. Hort. 1854, 66. 

 Azalea vittato-punctata Lemaire in III. Hort. I. t. 20 (1854). 



Cultivated: Hort. Holm Lea, May 20, 1918, A. Rehder; Hort. 

 Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia, March 30, 1908, C. S. Sargent. 



This variety has larger calyx-lobes than is usual in the species, but I have wild 

 specimens of the type with an equally large calyx. The most prominent distin- 

 guishing feature is the color of the flowers. This is white, striped with lilac-purple, 

 often irregularly so; sometimes the flowers are pure white or pure lilac-purple on 

 the same branch, occasionally they are dotted or blotched with color. Planchon 

 says it has been in possession of M. Paillet since 1844, and then adds that it was 

 one of Fortune's introductions to England. Now Fortune did not land in China 

 until July, 1843, so it would seem that there was something wrong with Planchon's 

 date or that it was introduced before Fortune's first visit. In all probability the 

 date is wrong. According to Fortune's account in his Tea Districts of China it 

 was in April, 1850, that he visited the Pou-shan gardens near Shanghai and saw 

 this Azalea in flower. However, he had been to these gardens on his first visit to 

 China (1843-45), but if he sent this variety of Azalea to England on that occasion 

 there is no available record of the fact. In all probability M. Paillet's plant was 

 R. indicum var. variegatum. Fortune's plant did not reach England before 1850 

 or 1851 so far as I can discover, and its acquisition according to the books led to 

 the raising of many seedlings. According to Hovey (Mag. Hort. XXI. 301 [1855]) 

 an Azalea vittata rosea was exhibited for the first time in Philadelphia on April 

 17, 1855, by Mr. Buist. It has long been grown in the Berckmans Nurseries, 

 Augusta, Georgia, and in the collection at Holm Lea. The type appears to have 

 been lost to English gardens until recently, when Professor Sargent sent it to Kew 

 and elsewhere. 



A form in which the flowers are striped with red is : 

 Rhododendron Simsii var. vittatum f . Bealii Wilson, n. comb. 



Azalea Bealii Fortune, Tea Districts of China, 330 (1852). Lemaire in III. 



Hort. I. t. 8 (1854). 

 Rhododendron vittatum var. g. Bealii Hort. apud Planchon in Fl. des Serr. IX. 



82 (1854); in Rev. Hort. 1854, 66. 

 Azalea vittata Bealii Morren in Belg. Hort. XVI. 1, t. (1866). 



This is another of Fortune's introductions to Messers Standish & Noble of 

 Sunningdale Nurseries from Pou-shan gardens, Shanghai, in 1850 or 1851, and is 

 characterised by its white flowers striped with red. This plant also has been a 

 useful parent in the evolution of the present-day race of "Indian Azaleas," as 

 shown by the variety " Fiirstin Baro Trysky," for example. It was imported into 

 America by C. M. Hovey, Boston, Mass., in 1855. 



A variety with white to rose-colored flowers and geographically 

 widely removed from the type is : 

 Rhododendron Simsii var. eriocarpum Wilson, n. comb. 



Rhododendron indicum var. eriocarpum Hayata, Icon. PL Formos. III. 134 

 (1913). 



