ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNiCUM. 



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 liibnun Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 31. Flowers red. 



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

 floriim coccineum miijus, 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 thyrsifldrum Bot. Reg. 1367., and our ^g. 1124. Raised at 

 High Clere in 1835 or before. 



R. n. 12 scintillans Bot. Reg. 1461., and our Jig. 1125. Raised at 

 High Clere in 1835 or before. 



R. w. 13 Seymoiin Bot. Reg. 1975., and our ^g. 1126. Raised at 

 High Clere in 1835 or before. 



IlSq. R.n thyrsifldrum. 



1125. J2. n. scintillans. 



1126. R. 11. Sejmoiiri. 



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

 are the following : 



A. n. 2 alba et rilbra. 



3 amcE^na. 



4 bl&nda. 



5 cSrnea. 



6 carol iniana. 



7 Cobiirgia. 



8 colorata. 



9 conspicua. 



10 crispa. 



11 cumula. 



12 discolor. 



13 fastigi4ta. 



14 fldre plfeno. 



15 fli5rida. 



16 globbsa. 



17 grandiflbra. 



18 incfina. 



19 incarn^ta. 



20 mirabilis. 



21 montana. 



22 ochroledca. 



1127. A. n. rosea. 



. n. 23 pallida. 

 34 palliddsa. 



25 papilion&cea. 



26 /jericlymendides. 



27 purpurascens. 



28 purpurea. 



29 rbsea. IJig. 1127.) 



30 ruberrima. 



31 rubicunda. 



32 rilbra. 



33 rafti. 



34 rCltilans. 



35 serotina. 



36 stamlnea. 



37 stell^ta. 



38 tricolor. 



39 varia. 



40 vari&bilis. 



41 variegata. i 



42 versicolor. 



43 tiiolicea. 1 



JUL 20. R. (n.) Bi'cOLOR G.Don. (A. (n.) bi'colohPumA.) 



flowered Azalea. 



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



Synonymes. Azalea bfcolor Pursh Sept. 1. p. 153. ; Azalea nudift6ra 



var. Wcolor Ait. Hort. Keic. I. p. 319. 

 Engravings. Trew Ehret, 48. ; and omjig. 1128. 



Spec. Char., Src 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 hardlv longer than the 



The two-coloureil 



segments. 



Calyxes very short; having one of nss. x. m.) wcoior 



