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above, yellow and scaly beneath. Flowers in loose corymbs, 
bell-shaped, inch across, rosy-lilac with red spots. 
Hardy. 
R. scahrifolium. — Yunnan. 1888. A small, rigid shrub, 
hairy all over. Evergreen. Leaves lance-shaped, green, 
dotted with scales below, 3 inches long. Flowers in loose 
umbels, shallow, bell-shaped, about i inch across, white and 
pink. Tender. 
R. Schlippenhachii. — Manchuria. 1863. A shrub 5 
feet. Deciduous. Leaves in a terminal cluster, obovate, 
hairy, dark-green, 2-4 inches long. Flowers preceding the 
leaves, in loose umbels. Azalea-like, pale-rose with brown 
spots, 3 inches across. Hardy. 
R, serpyllifolium. — Japan. 1882. A scrubby, rigid, hairy 
shrub, I foot. Deciduous. Leaves very small, green. 
Flowers also small, solitary, on short branchlets, purple. 
Tender. 
R, sinensis, — China and Japan. 1824. A compact, 
deciduous shrub, with upright branches, about 5 feet high. 
Leaves ovate, crinkled, hairy, light-green, 2 inches long. 
Flowers in compact clusters, produced before the leaves, 
bell-shaped, orange-red. Better known as Azalea mollis. 
The parent of many good garden hybrids and seedlings. 
Hardy. 
R. Smirnovii. — Trans-Caucasia. 1886. A small tree 
up to 20 feet. Evergreen. Branches and leaves felted, 
the latter oblong, leathery, dark-green above, brown-felted 
beneath, 3-5 inches long. Flowers in a large, compact 
head, tube short, corolla wide open, 3 inches diameter, 
margins crisped, rosy-lilac, with green spots. Hardy. 
R. Souliei. — China. 1909. A shrub, 3-12 feet. Ever- 
green. Leaves thick, ovate, cordate, dark-green, glaucous 
