AZALEA BAKERI. Bakers Azalea 
Is defined as follows. 
Shrub, 1-3 m. tall, with irregularly whorled branches, or tree-like. Young twigs light green, 
puberulent and sparingly strigose. Winter buds conical, 8-11 mm. long, yellowish; scales 15 or 
less, glabrous, ciliate, their tips mucronate or the lower prolonged into awns. Leaves elliptic in 
type, varying from narrowly to broadly so, usually acute and prominently gland-tipped; blades 2-8 
cm. long, 0.5-3.25 cm. wide, thin, edges ciliate; above dark green and glabrous io light green and 
pubescent, the midrib always more or less strigose; beneath much lighter, glabrous, offen shiny, 
or pubescent, the midrib always pubescent and strigose, veins strigillose; petioles 2-5 mm. long, 
pubescent. Flowers expanding from June Ist to August, after ihe leaves unfold, in usually 3-5 
(7-9) flowered clusters, non-fragrani; bud-scales persisting. Pedicels 2-6 mm. long viscid, vil- 
lose. Calyx-lobes of unequal length, elliptic-acuminate to deltoid-ovate, setose, ciliate. Corolla- 
tube 18-23 mm. long, strongly ridged, viscid, externally glandular-pubescent, iniernally pubes- 
cent; limb gradually expanding; lobes: upper ovate, lateral and lower elliptic, acute; all glandu- 
lar-pubescent along midrib posteriorly; upper lobe 18-21 mm. long, 15-22 mm. wide; laterals 18-21 
mm. long, 6-15 mm. wide; lower 21-25 mm. long, 10-15 mm. wide; corolla, from chrome-yellow 
tinged with orange-red to deep scarlet-orange tinged with ochraceous, the posterior midrib section 
in the darker flowers much lighter than the anterior section, the upper lobe usually of a much 
lighter shade, but not prominently blotched. Stamens: filaments more than twice as long as 
the corolla-tube, ascending, the exserted portion carmine and glabrous, that within the tube lighi- 
er and pubescent; anthers about 2 mm. long, ochraceous Style carmine, its base pubescent. Cap- 
sule about 15 mm. long, strigose with appressed, gland-tipped hairs. 
Note-—The flowering branches in this species are inclined to be flat-spreading and profuse- 
ly flowering. The flowers are normally larger than A. calendulacea, often measuring 5-6 cm. 
wide. As the flower-buds expand, the light color of the posterior side of the midribs is prominent, 
particularly in the light color-form. During the study of this species a number of plants were 
found in the light color-form bearing flowers with 5-6 or 7 corolla-lobes and an equal number of 
stamens, but with only 5 calyx-lobes. The leaves of these specimens were inclined more to the 
obvate type. 
