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RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE. CATAWBA 
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Clafs and Order. 
DecaANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. §-partitus. Cor. fubinfundibuliformis, inequalis. Svan. 
declinata. Cap/. 5-locularis. 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
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RHODODENDRON catawbien/e ; foliis brevi-ovalibus utrin- 
que rotundato-obtufis glabris fubtus difcoloribus, umbellis 
terminalibus, laciniis calycis elongato-oblongis, corollis 
campanulatis. Purfh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 298. Maichaux 
Flor, Amer.-Bor. 1. p. 258. Ait. Epit. Hort. Kew. addenda. 
The flowers of this fpecies having been reprefented as being 
fearlet, excited a confiderable intereft amongft our colle€tors ; 
they turn out however to be of a rofe-colour, and being only 
ob{curely dotted on the upper petal, though larger, are hardly 
more fhewy than thofe of RHopoDENDRON maximum, Our 
drawing was made at the Hammerfmith Nurfery, Meffis. Ler 
and Kennepy, June 1813. In a fpecimen which flowered 
at Meffrs.§ Marcotm and Sweet's laft fpring, it was 
remarked that the petals were of a much more intenfe colour 
externally than within, and that confequently the flowers were 
more fhewy when but few of them were fully expanded. 
Native of the high mountains of Virginia and Carolina, parti- 
cularly near the fource of the Catawba River, where it was found 
in 1808, by Mr. Joun Fraser and his late father, and by 
them introduced in 1809. 
It forms a low fpreading bufh, feldom afcending more than — 
three feet. The capfule is fmooth, larger, and more approaching 
to an oval form than that of R. maximum, in which it is nearly 
cylindrical and ferrugineous. We have obferved too, that 
variety y Of maximum, in Mr. Pursn’s Flora of North-America, 
has {mooth capfules and a leafy calyx, charaéters fufficient to 
~ entitle it to be confidered as a diftin&t {pecies, 
