at the points, very much veined underneath, with a light 
bright purple spot in the centre of each. Filaments 10, 
united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style pale purple, 
hairy about half its length, the upper part smooth. Stig¬ 
mas 5, small, dark purple, the points reflexed. 
The present handsome plant is of hybrid origin, and we 
suppose one of its parents to have been P .pulcherrimum, 
but what the other was is not easy to be ascertained; it 
was first raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith, in the collec¬ 
tion of the Earl of Liverpool; and it is a plant deserving 
a place in every collection; thriving well in any rich light 
soil, and producing abundance of flowers all the Summer, 
and till late in Autumn. Young cuttings, planted in pots, 
and placed in a sheltered situation, will soon strike root. 
Mr. Smith has also been very successful in raising a 
great quantity of plants from the seeds of Azalea indica , 
amongst which we have no doubt there will be many splen¬ 
did varieties, as many of them appear at present very dif¬ 
ferent from each other; and, from their size, we should ex¬ 
pect some of them will bloom next Summer; he has also a 
great many fine young plants raised from the seed of Rho¬ 
dodendron jjonticum, that had been fertilized by the pol¬ 
len of R. arboreum; those will be very valuable, as there 
can bo no doubt but they will be quite hardy. 
