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Azalea indica. Indian Azalea. 



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PeNTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. campanulata. Stamina receptaculo inferta. Cap/. 5- 

 locularis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



AZALEA indica; floribus fubfolitariis pentandris decandrifve, 

 calycibus pilofis. 



AZALEA indica- floribus fubfolitariis, calycibus pilofis. Sp, 

 Pi. 214. JVilld. 1. p. 831. Hart. Kew. ed. alt. 2. p. 318. 



CHAMvERHODODENDRON exoticum, ampliflimis flori- 

 bus liliaceis. Breyn. Prod. 1. p. 23. Prod. 2. p. 31. ejufdem 

 ed. alt. p. 16. ^53. 



CISTUS indicus Ledi alpini folio, floribus amplis. Hem. 

 Lugdb. 152. /. 153. Raj. Hiji. 1895. 



TSUTSUSI. Ktmpf. Am<en. 845, /. 846. 



This is a very rare plant, which has been long anxioufly 

 fought for by cultivators of curious and fcarce exotics. We 

 believe there are not above three or four individuals of it in the 

 country, and of thefe only the one in the colleftion of James 

 Vere, Efq. from which our drawing was taken, has as yet 

 produced any flowers. 



It is furprifing that this fhrub, fo famed for its elegance, and 

 of which Kxmpfer enumerates twenty-one varieties cultivated 

 m Japan, fhould ftill be lb rare in Europe, efpecially when we 

 learn that it flourifhed, for twelve years, in the garden of 

 Mynheer Jerome van Beverninck, one of the moft cele- 

 brated in Holland, producing annually a profufion of flowers, 

 to the admiration and delight of the amateurs. Prof. Herman 

 declares that, but for its want of fragrance, you might fay of 



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