NAT. ORDER. 



£/ncuccce. 



RHODODENDRUM YELLOW FLOWERED 



CHRYSANTHUM. RHODODENDRUM. 



C/ass X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, five parted. Corolla, infundibuliform. Sta- 

 mens, declimate. Capsules, loculicidel. 



Spe. Char. Leaves, oblong. Corolla, rotate, irregular. 



Tliis beautiful evergreen shrub sends off spreading branches, 

 which are covered with a brown bark, and rises from twelve to 

 eighteen inches in height ; the leaves are oblong, obtuse, thick, veined, 

 reflexed at the margin, on the upper side of a deep green, on the 

 under ferruginous, or glaucous, and surrounding the branches uj3on 

 strong footstalks, which rise from between the imbricated stipular 

 squamae; ihejloioers are large, yellow, and terminate the branches 

 upon long peduncles, forming umbels ; the calyx is persistent divided 

 into five teeth ; the corolla is monopetalous, wheel-shaped, inclining, 

 irregular and divided at the limb into five round spreading seg- 

 ments ; xhejilainents are ten, slender, spreading, nearly of the length 

 of the corolla, and furnished with oval anthers; the germen is pen- 

 tagonal, indented, and supports a style, which is longer than the 

 stigma ; the capsule is egg-shaped, somewhat angular, and divided 

 into five cells, which contain numerous small seeds. 



This plant is a native of Siberia, inhabiting mountainous situa 

 tions, and flowers in June and July. Its medicinal effects, were first 

 described in the year 1747, by Gmelin and Steller, who mention it 

 as frequently and successfully used in Siberia and other northern 



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