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AZALEA calendulacea. a, 
Flame-coloured Azalea, 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ruovovennra. Jussieu gen. 158, 
Div. I. Corolla monopetala. 
AZALEA. Supra vol. 9. fol. 120. 
A. calendulacea, subnudiflora; foliis utrinque pubescentibas: adultis 
hirsutis, foribus amplis non viscosis, calycis dentibus oblongis, corolla 
tubo birsuto laciniis breviore. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 151. 
Azalea culendulacea. Michaux bor, amer. 1. 151. Poiret suppl. encyc, 
de Lamarck 1. 549. n. 9. 
Azalea pontica, 8. calendulacea. Persoon syn. 1. 212, 
(a) floribus flammeo-calendulaceis. Supra. 
(8) floribus croceis. Curt. mag. 1721. 
Ramuli novelli villosi. Folia lanceolato-oblonga villosa, ad nervos hirsu- 
tula, ciliata. Umbelle subfoliate pluriflore, pedicellis tubo corolla breviori« 
bus, viridibus, hirsutis. Cal. herbaceus, hirsutus, subbilabiatus, segmentis 2, 
summis oblongis obtusis submajoribus, 3 imis minimis aculis. Cor. majus 
flammea, bilabiata, inagualis, eztìs capitato-villosa, hirsutins ad tubum. et 
carinas laciniarum ; tubus obfusê angulosus, angulo superare  prominentiore 
ceteris, ut faux intàs villosus; limbus 5-partitus, pend duplo longior tubo, 
2 uncias transversus, venosus, márgine crispâ, laciniis cordatis acuminatis, 
mucronatis, labii summi mediá majore, distante 2 lateralibus, apice seflesd, 
imi 2 divaricatis subfalcato-obliquatis . lanceolato-cordatis: duplo minoribus 
summá medió. Stam. rubentia, exserta, declinato-assurgentia, inferno barbata 
willis raris, imo tubo adnata. Stylus subiriuncialis, duplum ferê corolla 3 
stigma virens, depresso-capitatum, papillosum. 
The present variety of this species seems to be univer» 
sally acknowledged the most ornamental shrub in North 
America; where it is found on the banks of rivers and the 
slopes of hills in Georgia and Carolina. Bartram, in the 
account of his travels through those parts, has made parti- 
cular mention of it, and is the first author we believe who 
has noticed it. He describes it as producing a blossom of 
the richest red, orange, and gold colours, and sometimes of 
pale yellow and cream-colour, all sometimes in different 
flowers on the same plant, at other times on separate plants, 
He says it grows in insulated clumps, sometimes im copses 
and in open forests, often in dark groves with other shrubs 
about the bases of the hills, especially in the vicinity 
of brooks and rivulets: and that the bushes of it are so 
abundant and covered with such a profusion of bloom, that 
