the handfomeft fhrub in North-America. This author refers to 
Bartranm’s Travels, p. 321, where we find a fhrub fpoken of 
with flowers like a RuopopenpRon, but in fruit more re- 
fembling an Azavea. But this would appear to be very dif- 
ferent from either of the above varieties, as the corolla is faid 
to be white with narrow fegments. Mr. Wittiam Bartram, 
however, and probably with juftice, claims the firft difcovery 
of this plant, as appears by a fpecimen in poffeffion of Sir 
jJoseru Banks, collected by that traveller, about the year 1774, 
accompanied with remarks; in which, in his ufual florid ftyle, 
he obferves, that * it is the moft brilliant, fhewy, and gay flower- 
ing fhrub, perhaps, in the world; it grows four, fix, or eight 
feet high, increafes greatly by fuckers, and the flowers. make a 
mott {plendid fhow in the vaft plains, and on the fides of the 
hills, in Weft-Georgia and lower Cherokee country, in the 
months of April and May. The flowers are of all fhades, from 
a pale cream colour to a fplendid golden yellow, orange, and 
moft perfeét {carlet or flame colour; and all thefe colours are 
fometimes feen on different branches of the fame plant, as well 
as on feparate plants, but a rofe-blufh or purple tint never oc- 
curs in the flowers of this fpecies.” 
Our drawing was made in the beginning of June 1812, from 
a plant brought over by Mr. Lyons; we received fpecimens 
alfo from Meffrs. Fraser’s American Nurfery, and from 
Mefirs. Loppices and Sons, 
