io8 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
Flowers in corymbs, bell-shaped, i inch across, white. 
Tender. 
R, linear if oliuin. — Japan. 1869. A small shrub with 
slender branches. Evergreen. Leaves few, linear, hairy, 
2-4 inches long. Flowers in terminal clusters, corolla 
divided almost to the base into five narrow, spreading 
petals, about i inch long, red-purple. Tender. 
R, Maddenii, — Sikkim, 6000 feet. 1850. A shrub 8 
feet. Evergreen. Leaves oblong, glabrous, scaly beneath, 
6 inches long. Flowers in corymbs, bell-shaped, 4 inches 
long, with five spreading, rounded lobes, white, tinged with 
rose, slightly scaly outside. Also known as R» Jenkinsii, 
Tender. 
R, Malay anuntr — Mountains of Malaya. 1854. A large 
shrub. Evergreen. Leaves lance-shaped, scaly beneath 
3 inches long. Flowers in umbels, tubular, an inch long, 
red, lobes small, spreading. Greenhouse. 
R. Mariesii. — Central China. 1886. A shrub 3-6 feet, 
with thin branches. Deciduous. Leaves ovate, hairy when 
young, green and glabrous when mature, 2 inches long. 
Flowers usually in pairs, rotate, i-^ inch across, pink with 
crimson spots. Tender. 
R, maximum. — American Laurel or Rose Bay. North 
America. 1738. A bushy tree up to 40 feet high, trunk 
sometimes i foot in diameter. Evergreen. Leaves ovate 
or lance-shaped, leathery, glabrous, dark-green above, paler 
beneath, 4-12 inches long ; flowers fragrant, in umbellate 
clusters, shallow bell-shaped, divided into five ovate lobes, 
about ij inch wide, white, rose, or purplish, the stalk 
and calyx of the same colour. Flowers in midsummer. 
Hardy. 
R. Metternichii. — Japan. 1870. An evergreen shrub, 3 
