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THE LONG-CALYXED CHINESE AZALEA. 
(AZALEA INDICA, CALYCTNA.) 
A Greenhouse Shrnh,from Chixa, belonging to the Order 0/ Heatiiwouts. 
THEZ0iY(7.C^ZrZ^Z) CHINESE AZALEA. A noble l AZALEA INDICA, CALTCINA ; varletas msignis e 
variety, obtained from China, with very lai-ge deep rose- China allata, floribus maximis intense roseis maculatis 
coloured spotted flowers ; the segments of tlie calyx calycis laciniis subfoliaceis tube coroU« »qualib"« ' 
leafy, and as long as the tube of the corolla. 
jHis striking plant flowered last year in the garden of the Horticultnral Society. It had been sent 
from Cliina bj Mr. Fortune, and put aside as 
alii 
phmicea. Its blossoms show it to be a much finer thing, especially remarkable for the very large size of 
measures more than three inches and a half 
calyx 
ich rose-colour, strongly speckled with bright crimson spots. There is also a peculiarity in its 
which is so long and leafy as to touch the re-entering angles of the corolla. We cannot, 
however, imagine that this circumstance gives our plant any claim to the rank of a species. On 
the contrary, it would rather seem to warn botanists against placing too high a value upon 
;um, 
ChampioTUB 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4609; and wliich, although common among rocks in a ravine at Port 
lown in gardens. That plant, however, is represented as being 
unk 
hairy, with great 
"We avail ourselv 
unity to republish Sir William Hooker's description of BJmhilendron (Azalea) 
* with Captain Champion's notes upon four other Azaleas seen by liim on Honff Konff 
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