84 THE AZALEAS OF THE OLD WORLD 



(1868). Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. Sri. St. Petersburg, ser. 7 XVI. 

 No. 9, 26 (Rhod. As. Or.) (1870). Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PL Jap. 

 I. 288. (1875). Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CXIII. t. 6972 (1887). Bean in 

 Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XX. 38, fig. 9 (1896); Trees and Shrubs Brit. Isl. II. 

 375, fig. (1914). Boissier in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 918 (1897). Dalli- 

 more in Garden, LXXII. 267, fig. (1908). Mottet in Rev. Hort. 1909, 79, 

 fig. 28. Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 497, figs. 327 f-g, 328 d-e 

 (1911). W. Watson, Rhodod. and Azaleas, 111 (1911). Matsumura, 

 Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 2, 463. (1912). Render in Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 

 V. 2943 (1916). Millais, Rhodod. 235 (1917). Komatsu in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XXXII. [10] (1918). 



Azalea reticulata K. Koch, Dendr. II. pt. 1, 179 (1872). 



Azalea dilatata O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. pt. 2, 387 (1891). 



Azalea rhombica O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. pt. 2, 387 (1891). Rehder in Bailey, 

 Cycl Am. Hort. I. 122 (1900). 



Rhododendron dilatatum /3. decandrum Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. VII. 134 

 (1893). 



Rhododendron decandrum Makino in Jour. Jap. Bot. I. 21 (1917). 



Rhododendron Wadanum Makino in Jour. Jap. Bot. I. 21 (1917). 



Japan : Kyushu, prov. Satsuma, Kagoshima in gardens, March 4, 

 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6158); Togo, in a garden, March 14, 1914, 

 E. H. Wilson (No. 6266); prov.Osumi, Mt. Kirishima, alt. 100-1 000m. 

 1917, Z. Tashiro; Nishi-Kirishima, alt. 1000 m. March 11, 1914, 

 E. H. Wilson (No. 6241); prov. Hizen, Nagasaki, Mt. Yuwaja, 1863, 

 C. Maximowicz (Herb. Gray). Shikoku, prov. Tosa, Nano-kawa, 

 May 12, 1889, K. Watanabe (Herb. Gray). Hondo, prov. Choshu, 

 between Habu and Asa, May 7, 1918, E. H. Wilson (No. 10,369); 

 prov. Aki, Miyajima, November 28, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7842); 

 prov. Yamato, Yoshino, April 22, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6573); prov. 

 Yamashiro, Kyoto, April 22, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6568); prov. 

 Shinano, Ogawa, September 5, 1905, J. G. Jack; Nojiri to Nakatsu- 

 gawa, September 6, 1905, J. G. Jack; slopes of Mt. Komaga-take, 

 October 24, 1892, C. S. Sargent; prov. Suruga, lower slopes of 

 Mt. Fuji, alt. 800-1000 m. May 8, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6640); 

 prov. Sagami, Hakone Mts. Kintoki, May, 1876, James Bissett (No. 

 237, Herb. Kew); prov. Shimotsuke, Nikko region, alt. 1000-1800 m. 

 May 18, October 24, 1914, E. H. Wilson (Nos. 6705, 7694), shores of 

 Lake Chuzenji, September 3, November 7, 1892, C. S. Sargent; same 

 locality, October 25, 1905, J. G. Jack. Hokkaido, prov. Hidaka, Shoya 

 village, August 17, E. Tokubuchi. Province unknown, " Mimasaka," 

 May 10, 1904, S. Arimoto (Herb. Gray). 



Cultivated: Arnold Arboretum (No. 3427-1). 



This is a common plant throughout the greater part of Japan. In Kyushu, 

 Shikoku and Hondo it is everywhere abundant; in Hokkaido it is rather rare and 



