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LEUCOTHOE FLORIBUNDA. 
(bundle-flowered leucothoe.) 
class. order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ERICACE^, 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-leaved ; leaves imbricated at the base. Corolla tubular, five-toothed. 
Stamens inclosed, filaments dilated, flattened, downy ; cells of anthers short, truncate ; mutic 
(pointless). Stigma ample, capitate. Capsule with a loculicidal dehiscence. 
Specific Character. — Plant, a hardy evergreen shrub, two feet high, quite glabrous. Leaves ovate, 
oblong, finely serrulated, adpressedly ciliated, glabrous, coriaceous. Racemes secund, axillary^ and 
terminal, forming panicles. Pedicles bibracteate. — D. Don. 
Synonyme. — Andromeda flonbunda.—Bot. Mag. 1566.. — Bot. Reg. 807« 
This very showy and ornamental plant is a native of the mountains of Georgia 
in North America, where it grows to a large and very handsome shrub, and is 
covered with a profusion of its pure white flowers early in the spring. In this 
country the flowers, which literally cover the plant, are formed in the autumn, and 
remain unopened until the ensuing spring, when about March or April they begin to 
expand, and assume that exquisite whiteness which forms so striking and beautiful 
a contrast with its own and other surrounding foliage ; and in this state tjie flowers 
continue in perfection for upwards of six weeks. It was introduced by Mr. Lyons 
in 1811. 
Though considered quite hardy, it has been at Chatsworth treated in the 
greenhouse, where, in consequence of the flowers existing in an unopened state 
through the winter, it appears to us as the only place in which they are likely to 
be brought to perfection. If planted out in the open air, a situation where cold cut- 
ting winds are guarded off should be preferred for it, which will no doubt materially 
tend to preserve the young flowers from injury until the warmth of March and 
April induces the blossoms to expand in all their beauty and elegance, a thing so very 
desirable at that season. It grows best in sandy peat soil, and seems to require a 
liberal supply of water. After the flowers fade, the young shoots begin to push in 
