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AZALEA CALENDULACEA. ad FLAMMEA. 
FLAME-coLOURED AZALEA. 
SE IEMA RR 
Class and Order. 
PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. campanulata. Stam. receptaculo inserta. Caps. 
5-locularis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Azatea calendulacea ; (subnudiflora) foliis oblongo-ovalibus 
ciliatis - adultis birsutis, corolla tubo laciniis breviore 
piloso subviscido, calyce villoso. Bot. Mag. 1721. Ubt 
-petantur synonyma. 
(«.) flammea ; floribus flammeo-calendulaceis. 
Azatea calendulacea. (a.)° Bot. Reg. 145. 
(@.) crocea ; floribus croceis. Bot. Mag I. c. 
The leaves are smooth, except the margins and along the 
nerves, where they are ciliated. The pedicles, calyxes, and 
tube of the corolla, are covered with glandular hairs some- 
what clammy: limb five-cleft, the upper lacinia larger and 
more recurved than the rest. Stamens and style declined, 
longer than the corolla. ; ; 
This is a very beautiful flowering shrub, varying consider- 
ably in colour (according to Bartram, its first discoverer,) 
from a pale cream colour to the most perfect scarlet or flame 
colour: and all this variety of shades is, he says, sometimes 
seen upon different branches of the same plant. We have 
however never observed the same shrub in cultivation to bear 
flowers of various colours, except the diversity of shades occa- 
sioned by different degrees of perfection. It 
