tafle, and having a wéak fcent of fweet-briar whéit rubbed; 
Flowers terminal, in an umbel-formed corymbus: peduitcles 
downy, -but little longer than the 4ra4es, which are oblong- 
ovate, concave, of a pale green colour, and continue as long - 
as the flowers, enclofing the peduncles in an imbricated fheath. 
Corolla large, funnel-fhaped, divided fearcely half-way down 
into five rounded, emarginate lacinia; white within, except _ 
that the upper part of the faux is dotted with green {pecks, 
hardly extending above the divifion of the corolla, and more 
or lefs tinged with a bright rofe-colour on the outfide.  Fila- 
ments ufually ten, declined, hairy towards the‘ bottom, upper 
ones rather fhorter. than the lower, inferted into the receptacle 3 
anthers pale red, ovate, ere€t, openings at the upper extremity 
very f{mall. Germen obtulely five-angled: /ly/e longer than 
ftamens, bright red, /figia capitate, obfoletely lobed. Beneath 
the germen is a thick flefhy pentagonal receptacle, the outer 
margin of which forms the calyx. Flowers quite fcentlels. 
There is fo great an affinity between this fpecies and Ruo- 
DODENDRON Chry/uuthemum, that Patias feems to doubt if 
they ought not to be confidered as mere varieties. It is a 
native of the moft elevated parts of Mount Caucafus, on the 
verge of the region of perpetual fnow; accompanied by no 
other fhrub than Vaccrnum Myrtilius and Viris idea, al- 
though the Juniper reaches nearly to the fame elevation. 
We foilow the'claffick writers, Vire1L, Ovin; PRoPerTIuss 
and Cravpian, in ufing the word cawca/eus, atnongft whom 
caucaficus never occurs, though moft modern Botanifis have 
adopted it, x ee ; ; 
_. Our plant was communicated by Mr. Loppices, with whom 
only it has as yet flowered, and that in the beginning of Auguft 
laft; he informs us, that it is far lefs fhy than the Ruopo- 
DENDRON Chryfanthemum, which, although it has been much 
longer in his poffeffion, he has never been able to flower but 
very imperfeéily. % 
