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purple-brown ciliate scales, the basal ones having long aristate points. The leaves 

 are deciduous and unfold at the same time as the flowers open; they are clustered 4 or 

 5 together at the end of the shoots and vary from broad-elliptic to obovate, the apex 

 is mucronate and the base cuneate, the edges are ciliate and often margined with 

 red-purple; they are more or less villose, especially the lower half of the midrib; 

 the petiole is very short and villose. The flowers are either solitary, or two or 

 three together on slender, glandular-hairy pedicels; the corolla is pure white with 

 green spots within, rotate-campanulate, and the calyx is membranous, with 5 

 lanceolate or deltoid, glandular-ciliolate segments. The stamens are ten, with 

 greenish filaments of unequal length, dilated and villose at the base. The pistil 

 much exceeds the stamens and is glabrous except at the summit of the ovary. The 

 fruit is stout, cylindric, and from 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 



According to Bean, this Azalea was introduced into English gardens by Lord 

 Redesdale about 1896, but it appears to be rare in gardens. To America it has 

 been sent by the Yokohama Nursery Company under the name of " Azalea quin- 

 quefolia white " and I have seen it growing fairly well in the garden of Mr. 

 T. A. Havemeyer, on Long Island. It is a woodland plant and needs shade and 

 a cool situation if it is to thrive. In 1905 Mr. J. G. Jack sent seeds from Lake 

 Chuzenji to this Arboretum but the resultant plants failed to prove hardy. The 

 plants raised from seeds sent from the same locality in 1914 have also proved 

 tender. Like many other woodland plants this Azalea is difficult to manage when 

 young. 



Rhododendron Schlippenbachii Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sri. 

 St. Petersbourg, se>. 3, XV. 226 (Mel. Biol VII, 333) (1870); in Mem. 

 Acad. Sri. St. Petersbourg, se>. 7, XVI. No. 9, 29, t. 2, figs. 7-13 

 (Rhodod. As. Or.) (1870). Herder in Act. Hort. Petrop. 1.347 (1871). 

 Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PL Jap. 289 (1875). . Hemsley in 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 30 (1889). Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CXX. 

 t. 7373 (1894). Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XV. 462, fig. 58 (1894); XIX. 

 561, fig. 87 (1896); LV. 9, t. (1914). W. Watson in Garden XL VI. 

 80, t. 972 (1894); Rhodod. and Azaleas, 112 (1911). Palibin in Act. 

 Hort. Petrop. XVIII. 150 (Consp. Fl. Kor. II.) (1900). J. H. Veitch, 

 Hortus Vritchii, 408 (1906). Komarov in Act. Hort. Petrop. XXIV. 

 206 (Fl Mandsh. III.) (1907). Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. 

 II. 494, figs. 325 i-1 327 a-b (1909). Nakai in Jour. Coll. Sri. 

 Tokyo, XXXI. 75 (Fl. Kor. pt. 2) (1911); Fl. Syl Kor. VIII. 43, 

 t. 15 (1919). Matsumura, Ind. PI Jap. II. pt. 2, 464 (1912). 

 W. Taylor in Garden, LXXVII. 136, fig. (1913). Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Brit. Isl. II. 378 (1914). Rehder in Bailey, Stand. Cycl. 

 Hort. V. 2943 (1916). Millais, Rhodod. 239 (1917). Komatsu in 

 Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXXII. [9] (1918). 



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



Korea: prov. South Keisho, Herschel Island, 1863, R. Oldham 

 (No. 510, Herb. Gray); Chirisan, alt. 600-1845 m. November 16, 



