ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BR1TANNICUM. 



the segments. Flowers delicate light purple, disposed in ter- 

 minal racemose corymbs. It is a hybrid raised from the seed of A. 

 nudiflora impregnated by the pollen of a hybrid raised between R. 

 ponticum and R. catawbiense. 



R. n. 9 rubrum Lodd.Boi. Cab. t. 51. Flowers red. 



R. n. 10 eximlum D. Don. Raised, in 1829, from seeds of R. nudi- 

 florum coccineum inajus, to which pollen of Rhododendron arboreum 

 had been applied. It resembles its female parent, having very little 

 affinity with R. arboreum, except in its evergreen leaves and decan- 

 drous flowers. 



R. n. 11 thyrsrflorum Bot. Reg. 1367., and our fig. 1124. Raised at 

 High Clere in 1835 or before. 



R. n. 12 sdntillans Bot. Reg. 1461., and our fig. 1125. Raised at 

 High Clere in 1835 or before. 



R. n. 13 Seymoun Bot. Reg. 1975., and our fig. 1126. Raised at 

 High Clere in 1835 or before. 



1124. R. n thyrsiflinnn. 



1125. R. n. scintfllans. 



1126. R. n Sey 



Varieties and Hybrids assigned to A. nudiflora in Loddiges's Catalogue for 1836 

 are the following : 



A. n. 2 ilba et rtibra. 



3 amce^na. 



4 bl&nda. 



5 cfirnea. 



6 carol inia"na. 



7 Coburgj'rt. 



8 color^ta. 



9 conspicua. 



10 crispa. 



11 cumula. 



12 discolor. 



13 fastigiata. 



14 fl&re plfeno. 



15 flrtrida. 



16 glob&sa. 



17 grandiflbra. 



18 inchna. 



19 incarn^ta. 



20 mir&bllis. 



21 mont^na. 



22 ochroletica. 



1127. A.n. rosea. 



A. n. 23 pallida. 



24 palliddsa. 



25 papilionacea. 



26 periclymenoldes. 



27 purpurascens. 



28 purpiirea. 



29 r6sea. (Jig. 1127.) 



30 ruberrima. 



31 rubicunda. 



32 rilbra. 



33 rtifa. 



34 riltilans. 



35 serotina 



36 stamlnea. 



37 stell^ta. 



38 tricolor. 



39 varia. 



40 varlabilis. 



41 varieg^ta. 



42 versicolor. 



43 v iolacea. 



ja 20. R. (N.) BI'COLOR G.Don. (A. (N.) Bi'coLOR.prsA.) 

 fiowered Azalea. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 3. p. 847. 



Synonymes. Azalea bfcolor Pursh Sent. 1. p. 158. ; Aaalea nudifldra 



var. bfcolor Ait. Hort. Kew. 1. p. 319. 

 Engravings. Trew Ehret, 48. ; and our./?. 1128. 



Spec. Char., tyc. Leaves oblong, clothed on both sur- 

 faces with fine hoary pubescence, not bristly on the 

 nerve. Flowers small, not clammy, naked, smaller 

 and more slender than those of most of the other 

 species. Tube of corolla hardly longer than the 

 segments. Calyxes very short; having one of 



The two-coloured- 



