CULTIVATED SPECIES 
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wrinkled, dark-green, rust-hairy beneath, 3-6 inches long, 
petiole short, stout. Flowers in a crowded globose head, 
bell-shaped, with spreading bi-lobed segments, i| inch in 
diameter, deep crimson. Allied to R, arboreum. Tender. 
R, lacteum. — China. 1889. A sturdy shrub or small 
tree, not unlike R, Falconeri, Leaves thick, leathery, oblong, 
12 inches or more long, brown-felted beneath. Flowers 
in a compact truss, bell-shaped, 2 inches across, white 
with purple blotch. Tender. 
R, lanatum. — Himalaya, 13,000 feet. 1851. A large 
shrub. Evergreen. Leaves elliptic, obtuse, 4 inches long, 
hairy when young, becoming glabrous with age, rust-hairy 
beneath. Flowers nodding, in a loose head, bell-shaped, 
I inch long, yellow. Tender. 
R. lapponicum, — Arctic regions. 1825. A dwarf, ever- 
green, Myrtle-like shrub, with rigid branches and elliptic 
leaves, | inch long, clothed with rust scales, fragrant when 
bruised. Flowers few, in an umbel, bell-shaped, five-lobed, 
I inch across, rosy-red, with crimson blotches. Hardy. 
R, ledifolium. — China, &c. 1819. An evergreen shrub, 
resembling R, indicum, and probably only a variety of it. 
Leaves dull-green, hairy, closely arranged on the twiggy 
branches. Flowers white. Used as a stock for varieties 
of the Indian Azalea. Hardy. 
R, lepidotum, — Himalaya, 15,000 feet. 1829. A strag- 
gling shrub up to 6 feet. Evergreen. Leaves variable, 
about I inch long, glabrous, fragrant. Flowers in twos or 
threes on the twiggy branches, bell-shaped, yellow or purple ; 
corolla I inch, scaly. Hardy. 
R, leptocarpum. — Bhotan, 8000 feet. 1853. A slender 
alpine branching shrub about i foot high. Evergreen. 
Leaves oblong, glabrous, finely reticulated, 3 inches long. 
