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RHoDODENDRON Maximum; hybridum. Lavret- 
LEAVED RyopopENDRON: hybrid var, | 
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Class and Order. | 
Decanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Enricinez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis 5-lobus. 
Stamina 5—10, declinata: antheris apice biporosis. Cap- 
sula 5-locularis 5-valvis, ab apice dehiscens, valvarum mar- 
ginibus inflexis dissepimenta formantibus : Receptaculum 
centrale 5-angulare. Semina membrana involuta. | 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
RuopopEnpRongnaximum : hybridum. 
Ruopopenpron hybridum ; bigener. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 
Por, | 95. : = 
Ruopopenpron fragrans. Fortulan. 
This charming plant has been for some time cultivated 
in the American border of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
under the name by which it was received of RHopopENDRON 
Jragrans. It has every appearance of a hybrid, and has so 
many points in the form and colour and fragrance of the 
blossoms common with the R. hybridum, (bigener, of the 
Botanical Register,) that I have little hesitation in referrin 
to that figure as a synonym. The chief differences are, that 
in the plant now alluded to, the flowers are smaller, and 
the leaves larger than in ours; which latter is indeed 
much the handsomer of the two. Assuming the two to 
have the same origin, then our hybrid is the offspring of 
the common white, glaucous-leaved Azatea, which had 
been fertilized with the pollen of RuopopenpRon maximum. 
atever be its origin, it is amply worthy of a place in 
every flower-garden and shrubbery. 
