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segments erect-patent, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. 

 Stamens exserted. Style longer than the stamens. 



Nom. Jap. Kocho-zoroi. 



Hab. JAPAN, cultivated (T. Makino !). 



A garden form. 



Rhododendron rosmarinifolium (Burmann) Dippel, 

 Handb. Laubholzk. I. (1889), p. 421. 



Azalea rosmarinifolia Burm. Fl. Ind. (1768), p. 43, tab. 3, 

 fig. 3. 



Rhododendron ledifolium G. Don, General Syst. Gard. a. Bot. 

 III. (1834), p. 846. 



var. speciosum Makino, var. hot. 



A shrub, evergreen. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 

 mucronato- obtuse or acute at the apex, acute at the base, 

 chartaceo-coriaceous ; midrib and veins prominent beneath, im- 

 pressed above; veinlets reticulated. Flower large and showy, 

 purple, about 7— 9cm. across. Corolla campanulato-infundibu- 

 liform, deep-purple-maculate in the posterior face, 5-lobed ; lobes 

 orbiculate or oval-orbiculate, rounded subemarginate or emargi- 

 nate at the apex. Stamens 10, included, or the longer ones 

 equal to the corolla in length. Style equal to the corolla in 

 length, or exserted. 



Nom. Jap. O-murasakiryiikyu (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. MTJSASHI : Tokyo, cultivated (T. Makino !) ; 

 Prov. TOSA : Nakamura in Hata-gori, cultivated (H. Yama- 

 moto ! May 1911). 



Rhododendron indicum Sweet, y. macranthum 

 Maxim, subvar. b- lateritium Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. p. 39. 



forma laciniatum Makino, nov. 

 Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute on both ends, 

 about 1|— 2\ cm. long. Sepals 5, small, oval to oblong, rarely 

 oblong-lanceolate, usually obtuse at the apex, 2-4 mm. long. 

 Corolla red, deeply 5-parted, immaculate, about 2-3 cm. long ; 

 segments 5, oblong-lanceolate or broadly linear, rounded at the 

 apex ; tube short, campanulate, about one-third as long as the 



