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Rhododendron liliiflorum grandiflorum souchetianum Lemaire in Loiseleur, 



Herb. Amat. ser. 2, III. sub. t. 15 (1843), as a synonym. 

 Rhododendron ledifolium a. leucanthum De Candolle, Prodr. VII. pt. 2, 727 



(1839). Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 34 (1863); II. 164 (1865-66); 



Prol. Fl. Jap. 96 (1866-67). Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Peters- 



bourg, ser. 7, XVI. No. 9, 36 (Rhodod. As. Or.) (1870). Franchet & 



Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 291 (1875). Matsumura, Ind. PL Jap. II. 



pt. 2, 462 (1912). 

 Rhododendron rosmarinifolium Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. I. 421 (1889), not 



Vidal. Voigtlander in Gartenwelt XV. 650, fig. (1911). Schneider III. 



Handb. Laubholzk. II. 503, figs. 330 f., 331 c-e (1911). Komatsu in Tokyo 



Bot. Mag. XXXII. [13] (1918). 



Azalea rosmarinifolia var. alba Render in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1. 123 (1900). 

 Rhododendron rosmarinifolium var. album Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. 



II. 504 (1911). 

 Rhododendron ledifolium var. album Render in Mitt. DeutschDendr. (?es.XXIV. 



225 (1916). 



Japan: Kyushu, prov. Hizen, Nagasaki, cultivated, April 25, 1903, 

 U. Faurie (No. 5434); prov. Chikugo, Kurume, cultivated, May 3, 

 1918, E. H. Wilson. Hondo, prov. Choshu, Shimonoseki, cultivated, 

 garden Sanyo Hotel, May 17, 1917, E. H. Wilson (No. 8426); prov. 

 Settsu, near Osaka, cultivated, May 7, 1918, E. H. Wilson; prov. 

 Kishu, May 15, 1911, K. Sakurai; prov. Musashi, Yokohama, culti- 

 vated, 1862, C. Maximowicz (Herb. Kew); Tokyo, cultivated, March 

 29, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6339); same locality, cultivated, May 15, 

 1882, K. Miyabe; prov. Ugo, Akita, cultivated, May 20, 1888, U. 

 Faurie (No. 2133); prov. Mutsu, Hirosaki, May 27, 1905, U. Faurie 

 (No. 6786). Hokkaido, prov. Oshima, Hakodate, cultivated, 1855, 

 C. Wright (Herb. Gray, Herb. Kew); same locality, 1862, M. 

 Albrecht (Herb. Kew). 



Japan: without locality, 1862-63, R. Oldham (No. 506); ex Herb. 

 Lugd.-Bat., 1863 (Herb. Gray, Herb. Kew). 



China: prov. Hupeh, Ichang, cultivated, A. Henry (No. 3503, 

 Herb. Gray). 



Cultivated: ex Herb. Bot. Bog. (Herb. Bur. Sci. Manila); Forest 

 Hills Cemetery, Boston, Mass., June 9, 1906, J. G. Jack; Butler Planta- 

 tion, West Feliciana Parish, La., March 28, 1910, C. S. Sargent; Hort. 

 Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia, March 18, 1909, C. S. Sargent; Hort. 

 Kew, May 28, 1901, A. Rehder. 



This well-known plant is a much-branched compact, wide-spreading shrub usu- 

 ally from 1.5 to 2 m. tall but sometimes over 3 m. high and more in diameter. 

 The shoots in their first year, as well as the petioles and pedicels, are densely clothed 

 with gray to gray-brown, spreading, soft hairs and intermixed with them, espe- 

 cially on the shoots, are few or many appressed and spreading, flattened, bristle-like 

 hairs. On both shoots and pedicels occasional glandular hairs are present; the inner 



