[Piste 89.] 
THE DWARF CRIMSON CHINESE AZALEA. 
(AZALEA AM(ENA.) 
و 
A hardy (?) Evergreen Dwarf Shrub, from the NORTH or CHINA, belonging to the Order of HEATHWORTS. 
Specific Character. : 
THE DWARF CRIMSON CHINESE AZALEA. A dwarf | AZALEA AM(GNA ; humilis, ramulis ramentaceo-squa- 
bush. Branches when young covered with ramentaceous matis demum ferrugineis, foliis obovatis pilosis obtusis | 
scales ; when old rust-coloured. Leaves obovate, hairy, basi angustatis sempervirentibus, calyce nullo (?), floribus 
blunt, narrowed at the base, evergreen. Calyx wanting (1). pentandris. . 
Flowers pentandrous. i 
TIS is a dwarf evergreen bush, resembling Rhododendron ferrugineum in habit. The branches 
when young are closely covered with long thin white ramentaceous scales; when old they are 
brown and coarsely hairy. The leaves are as small as those of Box, flat, obovate, very round at the 
point, coarsely hairy, paler on the under side. The flowers are rich crimson, almost campanulate, 
tolerably regularly five-lobed, with that kind of double corolla which is called “hose in hose.” No 
calyx is discoverable; but whether that organ is absent, or is converted into the external corolla, 
1s uncertain, 
... The specimen now represénted was exhibited to the Horticultural Society on April the 23rd, by 
Messrs. Standish and Noble of Bagshot, with whom it had flowered, on which occasion it was 
distinguished by a Silver Knightian medal. Branches, uninjured by cold, were produced from a 
plant which had been exposed during the whole winter without protection ; and the species is expected 
to be perfectly hardy. Mr. Fortune has communicated the following information concerning it :— 
“This pretty Azalea was found in a nursery near Shanghae, and had been brought from the 
far-famed city of Soo-chow-foo. Further than this its origin is unknown. It is no doubt a very 
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