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_ AZALEA INDICA var. y. CLUSTER-FLOWERED 
' INDIAN AZALEA. 
KEKE EEE EEE ERE EEE ERE 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Mownoeynta. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. campanulata. Stamina receptaculo inserta. Caps. 
5-locularis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Aza.Ea indica ; foliis ovato-oblongis acutis villosis, pedun- 
culis aggregatis (solitariisve) terminalibus calycibus- 
que pilosis, corolla campanulata. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 
1. p. 628. 
Azaea indica. Bot. Mag. 1480, ubi synonyma petenda 
Bot. Reg. 811. ho | 
(8.) Bot. Mag. 2509. | 
(y.) floribus purpureis aggregatis. 
This variety of the much admired Azaxea indica is less 
hairy than either of those before published ; the flowers 
are larger and collected together at the extremities of the 
branches. The flowers are of a fine purple colour; the 
upper segment spotted in the manner of RuopopenprRon 
_ ponticum, and, like the first, has ten stamens. These cha- 
racters would unite it to RHopopEnpron, but, according to 
PFER, Some of the varieties have only five, and others 
_ tenstamens. This species seems indeed to bid defiance to 
_ all description ; for not only the flowers vary in colour and 
form, but the leaves of some of them are deciduous, some 
evergreen, some quite smooth, others hairy, as well as being 
very differently shaped-; some blossom in the spring, others 
m the autumn. 
The drawing of our present subject was taken at the 
garden belonging to the Horticultural Society, at Chiswick, 
- In May Jast. 
