78 THE AZALEAS OF THE OLD WORLD 



Japan : Hondo, prov. Kawachi, cultivated at Yomomoto and Ikeda, 

 May 8, 1918, E. H. Wilson; prov. Rikuzen, Sendai, cultivated, May 

 27, 1888, U. Faurie (No. 2300, Herb. Kew). 



Cultivated : ex Hort. Ball, March, 1879 (Herb. Kew). 



In this form the corolla is rose-purple in color, deeply cleft and 5-partite, and 

 the stamens are usually shorter than the corolla-lobes which are from 2.5 to 4 cm. 

 long. Makino gives " Hana-guruma " as the Japanese name; in the nursery dis- 

 trict near Osaka it is known as " Oyeyama-tsutsuji." The specimen in Herb. 

 Kew proves that at one time it was in cultivation in England. 



Komatsu (in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXXII. [34] [1918]) enumerates 

 three other forms (" Usuyo," "Amaga-shita" and "Suruga-momyo") 

 of this species, but these are unknown to me. 



These are all the species of the section Tsutsutsi that are named or of which I 

 have seen sufficient material. There is, however, in this herbarium specimens (ex 

 Herb. Hongkong Nos. 7030, 5612) from Taimo-shan, Kowloon, Kwangtung prov- 

 ince, of a curious Azalea. It has narrow, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves and 

 inconspicuous subsessile flowers with the corolla deeply divided into five narrow 

 segments. It is in every way anomalous, and probably a monstrous condition of 

 some species not yet described, or possibly of the widespread R. Simsii Planch. 

 We have, also, a leafy fragment, collected in Kweichou province by Dr. Handel- 

 Mazzetti (No. 221, July 11, [1917]) which probably belongs to a new species re- 

 lated to R. Oldhamii Maxim. 



