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AZALEA calendulacea. a, 
Flame-coloured Azalea, 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. Ruovopennra. Jussiew gen. 158, 
Div. I. Corolla monopetala, 
AZALEA. Supra vol. 9. fol. 120. 
A. calendulacea, subnudiflora; foliis utrinque pubescentibus: adultis 
hirsutis, floribus amplis non viscosis, calycis dentibus oblongis, corolla 
tubo hirsuto laciniis breyiore. _ Pursh amer. sept. 1. 151. 
Azalea calendalacea. Michaux bor. amer. 1.151.  Poiret suppl. encyc. 
de Lamarck 1. 549. n. 9. 
Azalea pontica. 8. calendulacea. Persoon syn. 1. 212, 
(«) floribus flammeo-calendulaceis. Supra. 
(8) floribus croceis. Curt. mag. 1721. 
Ramuli novelli villosi. Folia lanceolato-oblonga villosa, ad nervos hirsu- 
tula, ciliata. Umbelle subfoliate pluriflore, pedicellis tubo corolle breviori- 
bus, wiridibus, hirsutis. Cal. herbaceus, hirsutus, subbilabiatus, segmentis 2, 
summis oblongis obtusis submajoribus, 3 imis minimis acutis. Cor. majuscula, 
Jlammea, bilabiata, inequalis, extiis capitato-villosa, hirsutits ad tubum et 
carinas laciniarum ; tubus obtusé angulosus, angulo superiore prominentiore 
ceteris, ut faux intis villosus; limbus 5-partitus, pené duplo longior tubo, 
2 uncias transversus, venosus, margine crispd, laciniis cordatis acuminatis, 
mucronatis, labii summi medid majore, distante 2 lateralibus, apice reflex, 
imi 2 divaricatis subfalcato-obliquatis lanceolato-cordatis duplo minoribus 
summa medid. Stam. rubehtia, exserta, declinato-assurgentia, inferne barbata 
villis raris, imo tubo adnata. Stylus subtriuncialis, duplum feré corolle s 
stigma virens, depresso-capitatum, papillosum. 
a a a ee ee eT 
The present variety of this species seems to be univer- 
sally acknowledged the most ornamental shrub in North 
America; where it is found on the banks of rivers and the 
slopes of hills in Georgia and Carolina. Bartram, in the 
account of his travels through those parts, has made parti- 
cular mention of it, and is the first author we believe who 
has noticed it. He describes it as producing a blossom of 
the richest red, orange, and gold colours, and sometimes of 
pale yellow and cream-colour, all sometimes in different 
flowers on the same plant, at other times on separate plants. 
He says it grows in insulated clumps, sometimes in. copses 
and in open forests, often in dark groves with other shrubs 
about the bases of the hills, especially in the vicinity 
of brooks and rivulets: and that the bushes of it are so 
abundant and covered with such a profusion of bloom, that. 
