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KEY TO THE FORTUNEI GROUP OF RHODODENDRONS. 
I. Stamens glabrous. 
a. Leaves hairy, especially on petiole and when young. 
Flowers in late July and August ; pedicels hairy .. 
AURICULATUM. 
b. Leaves glabrous, cordate or rounded at base. 
Glands on pedicels stalked; leaves very large and 
leathery, conspicuously auricled at base 
Glands on pedicels sometimes absent and often sessile ; 
leaves rounded or shghtly cordate at base, corolla 
glandular outside .. 
Glands always present, sessile; leaves rounded at 
base ; corolla glabrous outside, widely beU-shaped .. 
Hemsleyanum. 
Fortunei. 
VERNICOSUM. 
c. Leaves glabrous, cuneate at base. 
Calyx distinctly lobed ; pedicels quite glabrous ; flowers 
in June and July.. 
Calyx obsolete ; pedicels hairy-glandular ; flowers in 
May .. 
DISCOLOR. 
Houlstonii. 
11. Stamens pubescent or glandular. 
Corolla smooth outside ; flowers in spring and summer 
Corolla glandular-warty outside; leaves thick and 
leathery ; flowers in late summer and autumn 
decorum. 
SEROTINUM. 
Fehriiarv, 1919. 
W. J. BEAN. 
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