Observations on the Flora of Japan 



(Continued from p. 81.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Lecturer of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Rhododendron linearifolium Sieb. et Zucc. 



a. linearifolium (Sieb. et Zucc.) Makino. 



Rhododendron linearifolium Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. 

 Akad. Muench. IV. 3 (1846), p. 131; Mip_. Ann. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. I. (1863-64), p. 34, et Prol. Fl. Jap. (1866-67), p. 

 97 ; Maxim. Rhod. As. Orient. (1870), p. 34 ; Franch. et Say. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875), p. 290; Dipp. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 

 (1889), p. 424, fig. 273; Boissieu in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. (1897), 

 p. 918; Matsum. Enum. PI. Jap. II. 2 (1912), p. 463; C. Sch- 

 neid. 111. Handb. Lanbholzk. II. (1912), p. 504. 



Azalea linearifolia Hook. Fil. in Bot. Mag. tab. 5769 ; 

 O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II. (1891), p. 384. 



Rhododendron macrosepalum var. linearifolium Makino in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXII. (1908), p. 55. 



Nom. Jap. Seigai-tsutsuji. 



Hah. JAPAN, cultivated. 



A garden variety, and its origin is unquetionabty Rhodo- 

 dendron macrosepalum Maxim. 



ft. macrosepalum (Maxim.) Makino. 



forma a. genuinum Makino. 



Rhododendron macrosepalum Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VII. p. 

 335 (1870); Id. in Regel, Gartenfl. (1870), p. 258, tab. 662 ; 

 Id. Rhod. As. Orient. (1870), p. 31 ; Franch. et Say. Enum. 

 PI. Jap. I. (1875), p. 290; Dipp. Handb. Laubholzk. I. (1889), 

 p. 420, fig. 271; Boissieu in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. (1897); p. 918; 



