DENDRON With StuartiA, for nothing can be more evident, as 
the latter author remarks, than that these two plants must 
form one natural Genus. Indeed, he continues, their seve- 
ral varieties so closely approach each other, that the greatest 
practical Botanists have been in the habit of confounding 
them as one species. This species, an inhabitant of the 
mountains of Carolina and Georgia, seems to have been 
among us first cultivated at Kew, long before 1785, when 
Sir James Situ received the specimens which he figured 
in the “ Exotic Flora.” Our specimens are derived from 
the same source. The bushes have a truly beautiful ap- 
pearance, with their large, cream-coloured blossoms resem- 
bling those of a fine single white Rose, or even more like 
those of a Mespiwus, the outside tinged with bright red. It 
flowers in July and August, and seems quite hardy: yet it 
is not common in gardens. 
Descr. A shrub, eight to ten feet high, much branched ; 
the young branches, petioles, and often the foliage, deeply 
tinged with red. Leaves alternate, on red petioles, which 
are three-fourths of an inch long, ovate, acuminate, strongly 
veined, and generally deeply serrated with sharp teeth, the 
margin often red. Flowers axillary, solitary, large. Calyx 
of five deep, oblongo-lanceolate segments, stained with 
bright red. Petals six in our specimens, one generally rather 
smaller than the rest, and deeply stained with red on the 
back, all of them rounded, very concave, much waved, and 
crenulated at the margin, united at the base by means, as 
it were, of the short, staminal tube; this tube separates into 
a great number of filaments. Anthers rounded, orange. 
Germen ovate, hairy, five-angled, and terminating in five 
styles, shorter than the stamens. 
_ Fig. 1. Portion of the Staminal Tube, with the base of a Petal. 2. Pis- 
til :—magnified. 
ee ES Melee 
