calyx is as clear as the calyx upon any other Azalea, and is most 
apparent in the state of the advanced bud (see our figure). It 
is moreover fringed or ciliated like the leaves, while the corolla 
is not. 
Dzscr. Our plant forms a small dush, a foot high, with nu- 
merous wiry Jranches, dividing almost from the base, often 
fasciculate, everywhere clothed with appressed chaffy brown 
bristles, most copious on the younger branches. Leaves sparse 
or wanting in the lower part of the branches, rather crowded 
towards the extremity, elliptical-obovate, tipped with a short 
mucro, subcoriaceous, nearly sessile, patent, entire, dark green 
above, and rather thickly setose, as is the margin, pale and 
somewhat glaucous beneath, setose on the costa; the veins are 
pinnated, and they combine so as to form an almost continuous 
line distant from the margin: all the seta are close-pressed and 
chaffy, and brown, except on the very young shoots, where they 
are quite white. Peduncles red, single-flowered, axillary, solitary, 
but as they are confined to the uppermost leaves they form a 
kind of leafy corymb. Calye remarkably large, and as richly 
coloured as the corolla, campanulate, membranaceous, deeply 
and rather irregularly five-lobed, the lobes often laciniated and 
fringed with white hairs. Corolla rich crimson-purple, campa- 
nulate, the Jimd spreading, deeply five-lobed, quite glabrous. 
Stamens five, ascending. Filaments crimson. Anthers dark- 
purple, ovate, opening by two pores. Ovary ovate, setose, five- 
celled. Style decurved, then ascending, much longer than the 
stamens. Stigma with five small points. 
_Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse section of 
pistil :—magnified. 
