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THE LOXG-CALYXED CHINESE AZALEA. 
1. Rhododendron (Azalea) Cliamjpionce. A shrub nearly seven feet high; branches terete 
dichotomous; younger ones clothed with long, spreading, glandular bristles. Leaves much 
confined 
acuminate, reticulated, plane at the margin, dark green above, rather rusty-coloured beneath, the 
margin and costa and veins and veinlets clothed beneath and rough with short,, harsh, bristly hairs. 
Plower-buds at first enclosed in a strobilus of large, imbricated, very glutinous, deciduous bracteas. 
Umbels four to sis-flowered. 
with 
Calyx. 
equally hispid, deeply cleft to the base into four erect, almost linear-subulate, rather long segments 
or sepals. Corolla four inches across, tube rather short, campanulate, white. Limb four inches 
across, deeply cut into five obovate-oblong, obtuse, unequal-veined segments, the ujjper one the 
and margins. 
ground colour 
are tinged with delicate rose-colour. But there is another state of the flower described by Captain 
colour 
curv 
and copiously dotted with oclu-e." Stamens ten. Maments much protruded, slightly 
upwards. Style equalling the stamens in length. Stigma a depressed disc. Capsule five to six^ 
celled, elongated, nearly two inches long and three lines wide, cylindrical, straight, clothed with 
glandidar bristles, " deliiscing from the base upwards, but remaining attached to the central axis.'' 
2. Azalea indica, ^^hoenicea. 
immon occurrence 
March 
and on rocks or mountains, especially towards the eastern side of the island. 
in ravines. It flowers 
by the side of streams. 
3. Azalea squamata. One of Mr. Fortune's species, produces a few flowers early in winter 
bursts into luxuriant blossom when the fogs and humid atmosphere about Februarv and March 
have set in. 
shrub 
destitute of leaves, has not on near approach the gay appearance wHch the scarlet-flowered A. indica 
presents. 
4. Azalea ovata. Tliis, which had been previously described by Mr. Fortune, from 
vritli 
March 
the centre and adjoining lobes. 
with dark pur 
lyHlfolia.^ A new species, quite distinct from A. ovata. 
twigs 
shrub from four 
o^r.r.^\. ^' 1 /. , -. .; ^ ^^^^^^io^^vLv^ auu auux'Ler man m^, tnaica, qmte 
midrib 
veined. 
acumeD, quite smooth bnght green above, glaucous or pale beneath, and grossly retieulately 
Z: IL't ™ in;. J Tl«-: , ^^— . ^^- Anthers Tpeuing by teruilual 
pedicel 
Style long, curved. Stigma clavate and ten-lobed at the apex 
If^Tt'"'^ X^ ^TZ ''"'^.^- ^'^"^^' ^''-'''^'^' ^^^'^ '^'^ Ji^^« - length, globosely 
brows on the Black Mountain, Ilong Kon- on roclc<, wifh ^ ....... / a a - ^- 
1. March. 1849. bv T.Vnf rr^ t.L. S .t >' ?/^', ^'^^ ^- '^"^^'^^^^ ^"^ ^' '''^''^ ^ 
pores 
puberul 
ovate. 
first seen^ March 
