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above, yellow and scaly beneath. Flowers in loose corymbs, 

 bell-shaped, i inch across, rosy-lilac with red spots. 

 Hardy. 



R. scabrifolium. Yunnan. 1888. A small, rigid shrub, 

 hairy all over. Evergreen. Leaves lance-shaped, green, 

 dotted with scales below, 3 inches long. Flowers in loose 

 umbels, shallow, bell-shaped, about i inch across, white and 

 pink. Tender. 



R. Schlippenbachii. Manchuria. 1863. A shrub 5 

 feet. Deciduous. Leaves in a terminal cluster, obovate, 

 hairy, dark-green, 2-4 inches long. Flowers preceding the 

 leaves, in loose umbels, Azalea-like, pale-rose with brown 

 spots, 3 inches across. Hardy. 



R. serpyllifolium. Japan. 1882. A scrubby, rigid, hairy 

 shrub, i foot. Deciduous. Leaves very small, green. 

 Flowers also small, solitary, on short branchlets, purple. 

 Tender. 



R. sinensis. China and Japan. 1824. A compact, 

 deciduous shrub, with upright branches, about 5 feet high. 

 Leaves ovate, crinkled, hairy, light-green, 2 inches long. 

 Flowers in compact clusters, produced before the leaves, 

 bell-shaped, orange-red. Better known as Azalea mollis. 

 The parent of many good garden hybrids and seedlings. 

 Hardy. 



R. Smirnovii. Trans-Caucasia. 1886. A small tree 

 up to 20 feet. Evergreen. Branches and leaves felted, 

 the latter oblong, leathery, dark-green above, brown -felted 

 beneath, 3-5 inches long. Flowers in a large, compact 

 head, tube short, corolla wide open, 3 inches diameter, 

 margins crisped, rosy-lilac, with green spots. Hardy. 



R. Souliei. China. 1909. A shrub, 3-12 feet. Ever- 

 green. Leaves thick, ovate, cordate, dark-green, glaucous 



