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AZALEX squamata. 
The scaly Azalea. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ERICACEÆ. (Heatuworts, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 453.) 
AZALE A.— Linn. 
- À. squamata ; foliis junioribus ferrugineo-pilosis vetustis ovalibus acutis sub- 
coriaceis breviter petiolatis calvis nunc basi angustatis, floribus 8-10- 
andris solitariis ante folia e squamis numerosis ferrugineis imbricatis 
pilosis erumpentibus, pedunculo squamarum longitudine villoso, calyce 
obsoleto 5-dentato, corollee breviter campanulate petalis obtusis quinto 
multo minore.— Lindley in Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. 1. 
p. 152. 
This fine addition to our Chinese Azaleas, has been sent 
to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Fortune, who found it on 
the mountains of Hong Kong, as we learn from the Journal of 
the Horticultural Society, in which is the following account 
of it :— | 
** With the habit common to all the Chinese Azaleas, this 
presents the following peculiarities :— In its natural state it 
blooms without leaves, producing at the end of every little 
shoot a large solitary flower of a clear rose-colour, distinetly 
spotted with crimson on one side, and guarded at the base 
by a large sheath of bright brown scales (whence its name). 
Its calyx, unlike that of the neighbouring species, is reduced 
to a mere five-toothed rim. Its ovary, immediately after the 
fall of the corolla, projects in the form of an oblong body 
quite covered with coarse brown hairs. The leaves when 
young are somewhat like those of A. indica, and have nothing 
distinctive in their shape or surface; but when old they are 
oval, sharp at each end, perfectly hairless, and as even on 
the upper surface as those of Rhododendron punctatum. 
“ This plant has been long known from dried specimens 
and drawings sent from China by Mr. Reeves, the latter of 
which are preserved in the library of the Horticultural 
