192 THE AZALEAS OF NORTH AMERICA 



If the colored plate is a true representative of the plant it is certainly, with 

 the form just mentioned, one of the handsomest of this group of hybrids on account 

 of its large flowers and the pure pink color without any trace of the lilac or purple 

 found in most related forms. The leaves are almost acuminate, to 8 cm. long and 

 green on both sides; the flowers are broadly funnelform-campanulate, about 6 cm. 

 wide, with broad lobes wavy at the margin, white and more or less tinged and 

 striped pink. Nothing is said of the origin of the plant, but it was apparently 

 English. 



The following is a hybrid probably of similar origin : 



Azalea (var.) magnified (Rollisson's) Van Houtte in Fl. des Serr. XIII, 31, t. 

 1306-7 (1858). Lemaire in III. Hart. VI. t. 209 (1859). 



Nothing is said about the origin of this plant except that it was received from 

 W. Rollisson. According to the plate it is a very handsome plant with large white 

 flowers slightly tinged pink, the upper lobe with a large orange blotch and the other 

 lobes marked with pink veins near the margin; the number of stamens is 6 to 8. 



Rhododendron gandavense x ? catawbiense. 



Rhododendron "Deception" Standish and Noble in Jour. R. Hort. Soc. V. 274 

 (1850). Burbidge, Cult. PI. 298 (1876). 



Described as having pink spotted flowers and fine foliage and stated to be a 

 hybrid between a "large yellow Ghent Azalea and R. catawbiense." 



Rhododendron discolor x occidentale Bean in Rhodod. Soc. Notes, 

 I. 191 (1919), name only. 

 Flowers not yet known. 



Rhododendron luteum x ponticum = Rhododendron Laetitiae Her- 

 bert apud Lindley in Bot. Reg. XXXI. t. 51 (1845). 



This hybrid was raised by W. Herbert of Spofforth from seed of Rhododendron 

 ponticum fertilized by Azalea pontica. The leaves are described as "rather more 

 durable, broader and blunter than the leaves of Azalea Pontica"; the flowers are 

 large, white and fragrant, the three upper lobes with large orange blotches and 

 smaller dots. The plant is named after Mrs. W. Herbert. This is apparently one 

 of the seedlings mentioned in 1837 by Herbert in his Amaryllidaceae, page 359: 

 "Four evergreen seedlings obtained from the seed of Rhododendron Ponticum which 

 I had fertilized with pollen of Azalea Pontica have flowered at Highclere." 



Of similar origin ("Azalea pontica X evergreen Rhododendron") were the 

 hybrids raised by Adam of Altenburg, and offered to the trade by Rinz of 

 Frankfort, Germany, probably about 1850; eleven varieties are enumerated by 

 Andre" (PL Terre Bruy. 164 [1864]). 



Rhododendron speciosum x arboreum. 



Rhododendron nudiflorum var. eximium Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, III. 



t. 291 (1835). 

 Rhododendron eximium D. Don apud Zabel in Beissner, Schelle & Zabel, 



Handb. Laubholz-Ben. 379 (1903), not Nuttall. 



