SECT. TSUTSUTSI x LEIORHODION 



The following forms have been supposed to be hybrids between the sections 

 Tsutsutsi and Leiorhodion. 



Rhododendron azaleoides var. crispiflorum Lemaire in IU. Hart. V. 1. 181 (1858). 1 



This handsome and interesting hybrid was raised, according to Lemaire, by a 

 Ghent horticulturist, Louis Demotte, by crossing a hybrid Rhododendron with an 

 Indian Azalea, probably the var. " Reyndersiana." Judging from the figure and 

 the characters given in the description this plant seems indeed to be a hybrid of a 

 species or form of the section Tsutsutsi and a form of Eurhododendron, the only 

 one known to me, for the two following forms which are supposed to be hybrids of 

 an Indian Azalea and an evergreen Rhododendron are apparently only forms of 

 R. phoeniceum. 



Azalea Rawsonii Paxton in Paxion's Flow. Gard. III. 123 t. (1836). 



This Azalea was raised by John Menzies, gardener to Christopher Rawson of 

 Hope House near Halifax. In a letter Mr. Menzies "states as his belief that it is 

 produced between A. phoenica and Rhododendron dauricum atrovirens." Judging 

 from the colored plate it is a simple form of R. phoeniceum. See also pages 61 and 

 62. 



Rhododendron phoeniceum var. splendens Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, IV. t. 

 385 (1837). 



This is said to have been "raised by Mr. Wood, gardener to Mrs. May at Syden- 

 ham, from a plant of Rhododendron phoeniceum that had been fecundated by 

 R. catawbiense." It appears to be only a form of R. phoeniceum; not the slightest 

 influence of R. catawbiense is noticeable in the plant figured. See also page 63. 



1 Not R. indicum var. crispiflorum Schneid. — See page 27. 



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