1716 



* AZALEA indica ; variegata. 

 The Variegated Chinese Azalea. 



PENTANDRIA MOAOGFA'JJ. 



"Nat. ord. Erice^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System of 

 Botany, p. 182.) 



AZALEA. Supra, vol. 2,fol. 120. 



A. indica ; corollis tubuloso-campanulatis, foliis spatulato-oblongis obtusis v. 



lanceolatis costa rufo-hispida, calycibus minimis hispidissimis. 

 A. indica; Linn. Sp.pl. 2\ A. 



Var. variegata ; floribus pentandris albo roseoque variegatis, foliis spatulatis 

 obtusis. 



This is the celebrated variegated Chinese Azalea, which 

 so many attempts have been made in vain for these twenty 

 years to procure alive. It was brought home by Mr. M'Kil- 

 ligan in 1832, and is now in possession of Mr. Knight, of 

 the King's Road. 



In habit and leaves it is exactly the same as the brick- 

 red kind figured at t. 1700 ; but it is far handsomer in 

 flower. The blossoms which were produced in Mr. Knight's 

 Nursery, not having been so perfect as could have been 

 wished, we have completed our figure from a Chinese draw- 

 ing in the possession of the Horticultural Society, which had 

 been made under the inspection of Mr. Reeves. 



* See folio 1366. 



