ENUMERATION OF THE SPECIES 131 



Azalea speciosa f. aurantia Sweet, Hort. Brit. 265 (1826), name only. 

 Azalea coccinea aurantia Loddiges, Bot. Cab. XIII. t. 1255 (1827). 

 Rhododendron calendulaceum var. a. flammeum Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 343 



(1830). — Zabel in Beissner, Schelle & Zabel, Handb. Laubholz.-Ben. 380 



(1903). 

 Rhododendron speciosum f. aurantium Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 343 (1830). 

 .Azotea speciosa 0. aurantia De Candolle, Prodr. VII. 117 (1838). 

 Azalea speciosa a. aurantiaca Kirchner in Petzold & Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 



479 (1864). 

 Azalea calendulacea var. flammea Render in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. I. 121 



(1900), in part. 

 Rhododendron calendulaceum aurantiacum Zabel in Beissner, Schelle & Zabel, 



Handb. Laubholz-Ben. 380 (1903). 

 Rhododendron luteum var. flammeum Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 



500 (1911), in part. 



Flowers deep orange-red to scarlet, with large orange blotch. 



Rhododendron speciosum Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 343 (1830), not 

 Salisbury. 1 — G. Don, Gen. Syst. III. 847 (1834). 



Azalea nudiflora a. coccinea Aiton, Hort. Kew. I. 202 (1789). — Sims in Bot. 



Mag.V.t. 180 (1792). 

 Azalea coccinea Sims in Bot. Mag. text to 1. 180 (1792) , as synonym. — Michaux, 



Jour. ed. C. S. Sargent, 9 (in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. XXVI.) (1889). 

 Azalea fulva Michaux in Jour. Hist. Nat. I. 410 (1792), name only. 2 

 Azalea calendulacea a. flammea Michaux, Fl. Bar. -Am. I. 151 (1803). — 



Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 152 (1814). 

 Azalea speciosa Willdenow, Berl. Baumz. ed. 2, 49 (1811); Enum. Hort. Berol. 



Suppl. 10 (1813). — Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abb. Fremd. Holzart. I. 37, 



t. 31 (1825). — Watson, Dendr. Brit. II. t. 116 (1825). 

 Azalea periclymenoides var. coccinea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. I. 152 (1814). 

 Azalea nudiflora Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, Herb. Amat. IV. 213, t. (1820), 



not Linnaeus. 

 Azalea calendulacea var. a. Elliott, Sketch Bot. I. 239 (1821). 

 Azalea coccinea major Loddiges, Bot. Cab. VII. t. 624 (1822). 

 Azalea speciosa a. major Sweet, Hort. Brit. 265 (1826). 



1 Rhododendron speciosum Salisbury, Prodr. 287 (1796) cannot invalidate Sweet's 

 combination, as it is a straight synonym, being only a new name for R. ponticum L. 



2 This is apparently the Azalea which he calls Azalea coccinea in his Journal 

 (ed. C. S. Sargent, p. 9) and describes under the entry of the following day (p. 10) 

 as "l'Azalea couleur de feu. La couleur de cet Azal. qui est dans toutes les 

 parties de la fl. aussi foncee, Corolla, Etam. et Pistille, est celle de Hemerocallis 

 fulva mais dans les lieux plus decouverts et moins ombrages cet couleur est encore 

 plus forte." This Azalea Michaux collected on April 26 and 27, 1787, after having 

 crossed the Savannah River at Two-Sisters Ferry; in his Flora it is referred to under 

 A . calendulacea a. flammea. In comparing the color of this plant with that of Heme- 

 rocallis fulva Michaux must have had in mind the color form figured by Redouts 

 in his Liliaceae, tab. 16, which has red-purple flowers and was probably at that 

 time well known in France. The color of this form agrees very well with that of 

 R. speciosum, while the plant now generally cultivated as Hemerocallis fulva has 

 orange flowers. 



