stalks. The bracts, pedicels, and calyces are hairy. The five 
calyx-lobes are ovate, acute, ciliated. The corolla is between 
funnel-shaped and bell-shaped, about an inch and a quarter in 
length, and the same in expansion; the base of the tube rather 
compressed, and the lobes of the limb flat, rounded, and over¬ 
lapping at the base. The colour of the flower is of a lively 
purplish-tinted rose-pink, rather deeper but not spotted at the 
base of the upper segments. These flowers, which are borne in 
profusion, are firm and smooth in substance, and pleasing in 
form, and hence, though small, being bright-coloured, are rich¬ 
looking and effective. The stamens are five in number, longer 
than the corolla, with rose-coloured filaments, terminated by 
small light-brown anthers. The style is about as long as the 
stamens, with a small capitate four-lobed stigma. The ovary 
is four-celled. It appears to be a summer-blooming plant. 
Like other hardy Azaleas, this should be cultivated in beds 
of peat earth. It will form a very elegant object for the mar¬ 
gins of beds of American plants, to which its distinct character 
will impart a novel feature; and it would be equally suited 
for grouping in the small beds of a geometrically-designed 
garden of this class of plants. In short, a shrub of evergreen 
habit, so dwarf and compact in growth, and so profuse in the 
development of its blossoms, cannot be other than a valuable 
object in the hands of the decorative gardener. At present it 
is very rare, if not unique; but, no doubt, in due time its fortu¬ 
nate raiser and possessor will have increased it sufficiently to be 
able, to distribute it. 
