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toothed, smooth, or with a few hairs at the base of the midrib beneath. 

 Flowers in a nodding raceme of ten or twelve blossoms, produced in May, 

 each on a downy stalk j to ^ in. long. Corolla bell-shaped, J in. long and 

 broad, white, the margin cut up into numerous slender-pointed, unequal teeth ; 

 calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, fringed with short hairs ; seed-vessel to J in. 

 long. 



Native of Japan. It is easily distinguished by the almost fringed mouth of 

 the corolla. Var. RUBENS is similar to the type, except that its leaves are 

 usually shorter and broader (roundish obovate), often from ^ to in. long, and 

 the flowers of a rich deep red. Very distinct and beautiful. 



E. HIMALAICUS, Hooker fit. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 6460 ; E. deflexus, C. K. Schneider^ 



A shrub or small tree, from 6 to over 20 ft. high ; young branches bright 

 red, smooth or hairy. Leaves produced in a cluster at the end of the shoot ; 

 i to 3 ins. long, to i f ins. wide ; oval, obovate or lanceolate, tapering to both 

 ends, with scattered hairs on both sides, but especially on the midrib beneath. 

 Flowers produced in June along with the young shoots in a terminal, umbellate 

 or racemose cluster, each of the eight to twenty blossoms borne on a drooping, 

 downy stalk f to ij ins. long. Corolla broadly bell -shaped, f in. broad, of 

 various shades of yellowish red with darker lines : lobes triangular, deeper- 

 coloured. Calyx-lobes ^ in. long, triangular and long-pointed. Seed-vessel 

 almost globose, downy. 



Native of the Himalaya up to n,ooo ft. altitude, and of W. China. The 

 Himalayan plant is not very hardy and is usually wintered indoors, but the 

 Chinese plants introduced for Messrs Veitch by Wilson in 1908 are likely to 

 prove hardier, as he found them at quite as high altitudes. This Chinese form 

 is not quite identical with the Himalayan one figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine, having usually more distinctly racemose flowers and smooth young 

 shoots. E. himalaicus has the largest flowers in the genus, and Mr Wilson 

 describes it as one of the most strikingly beautiful shrubs of the W. Chinese 

 mountains. 



E. CHINENSIS, Franchet, is nearly allied to it, but is distinguished by the 

 smooth leaves and flower-stalks. It is represented in cultivation by a very 

 few plants introduced by Wilson during his journey in Hupeh and Yunnan, 

 1899-1901. Young shoots smooth. Flowers \ to \ in. wide and long, bell- 

 shaped, salmon pink .with deeper lines. Fruit with five sharp ridges. 



E. JAPONICUS, Hooker fil. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 5822 ; Andromeda perulata, 



A deciduous shrub, 3 to 6 ft. high ; branches bifurcated or arranged in 

 tiers ; smooth, reddish. Leaves clustered at the ends of the twigs, i to i^ ins. 

 long, scarcely half as much wide, narrowly oval to obovate, fine-pointed, 

 tapering at the base to a short stalk, minutely toothed, downy only at the base 

 of the midrib. Flowers in a terminal cluster of three or more, each one on a 

 perfectly smooth, slender, drooping stalk about ij> in. long. Corolla white, 

 pitcher-shaped. \ to \ in. long, much contracted at the mouth where are five 

 shallow, rounded, reflexed lobes, and five swellings at the base. Calyx of five 

 awl-shaped, smooth lobes jV in. long. Seed-vessel \ in. long, cylindrical. 



Native of Japan ; discovered in 1859 in the neighbourhood of Nagasaki 

 by Sir Rutherford Alcock, and introduced some ten years later by Messrs 



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