IPENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 15^ 



inserted upon the torus or receptacle. Style de- 

 clined; stigma obtuse. Capsule 5-celled. 



Shrubs with alternate enth-e leaves; comnionly more or 

 less strls^ose on the marghi and nerves; flowers bracteo- 

 late, solitary (in ^. indka, &c.) more commonly in ter- 

 minal fastigiate clusters, appearing before the expan- 

 sion of the leaves, or more rarely after (as in ^. viscosa, 

 &c.) colour white, red, scarlet, and yellow. 



Species. 1. A. calejuhdacea. This plant appears to be 

 now considered, as nothing more than a variety of .^. pon- 

 *icfl of the Levant. 2 canescens, 3.bicolor- 4. nudij-ora. 5. 

 viscosa. Of this species the most remarkable spontane- 

 ous variety, is the A. viscosa, glanca, very unnecessarily- 

 made a species by Mr. Pursh; in this plant the leaves are 

 constantly glaucous on both surfaces, in other respects it 

 is not distinguishable from A. viscosa. 6. procumbens. Oa 

 the White Mountains of New Hampshire. 



This fine genus, so much esteemed by horticulturists 

 and florists for the beauty and fragrance of its flov/ers, 

 exists chiefly in North America. There is, iiowever, 1 

 species in India, which has been long cultivated by the 

 Chinese; another in Lapland, but scarcely of the same ge- 

 nus any more than the A. procumbens of the Euroi<eciii 

 alps which has opposite leaves; the Azalea rosmariinfolia 

 of Japan appears to be equally dubious considered as a 

 congener of the A. pontica and the American species. 



£08. BUMELIA. Swart%, 



Calix 5-parted. Corolla salver-form, deeply 

 5-parted. JS^ectarium (or inner corolla) 5 -leav- 

 ed. Drupe 1 -seeded. 



Shrubs or small trees, often spinescent, branches flex-' 

 uose, much divided; leaves simple, alternate, entire, most- 

 ly sempervirent; flowers in lateral or axillary clusters, 

 wood more or less foetid. 



Species. 1. £. Lycioides. 2. laniiginosa. 3. Chyso- 

 philloides. 4. recUnata. 5. *oblongifolia. Spiny, leaves 

 smooth, oblong, obtuse, deciduous; flowers conglomerate^ 

 nearly sessile, very numerous; segments of the nectariuia 

 trifid. 



A small tree about 18 feet high, with numerous flexu- 

 ose or tortuous branches. Segments of the calix ovate, 

 concave. Nectarium nearly equal with the corolla, divisions 

 trifid, connivent, opposite the stamina. Drupe carneous 

 purple, at length blackish brown, wood foeti4. First no= 



