on their suddenly opening to his view as he canie from dark 
groves, he was at first struck with the apprehension that 
the woods of the hill-sides on which they grew were on fire. 
It seldom exceeds six or seven feet in height, generally not 
much more than three, but spreads its branches around to 
a considerable extent. The bloom appearing before the 
leaves are much developed, the blaze of its splendour is 
but slightly subdued by the intermixture of foliage. The 
colour in the plant we have shown in our figure reminds 
Mr. Pursh of that of a well-known variety of the Marvel 
of Peru (Mrrasiiis Jalapa), and which in fact it strongly © 
resembles. ‘The, specific name has been suggested to 
Michaux by the flower, in his view of it, agreeing in colour 
with that of the common Marygold (Catenpura officinalis ).: 
One of the yellow varieties has a strong resemblance to the 
AZALEA pontica. 
Leaves oblong lanceolate villous on both sides, more 
roughly so at the nerves and veins. | Umbels of several 
flowers, fully expanded before the leaves are developed. 
Calyx hirsute, with an upper lip of two longer oblong ob- 
tuse lobes, and a lower one of three minute pointed ones. 
Corolla large, covered with glandularly capitate hairs, 
roughly so at the tube and the keels of the segments; 
limb almost twice the length of the tube, two inches across, 
veined, undulate at the edge, segments cordate, acuminate, 
with asmall point at the end, the middle one of the upper 
lip the largest, the two of the lower lip twice smaller than 
this and divergent. The tube and faux are villous on the 
inside. Stamens extending beyond the corolla; style at 
least three inches long, and nearly twice the length of the 
corolla. 
The drawing was made in July, at the nursery of 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith, the only place 
where we have met with the plant. As hardy as any of 
other species of the genus from America, and thrives like 
them in bog-earth. 
The two varieties were introduced some few years ago 
by the late Mr, Lyon. 
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a Calyx. Stamens. c Pistil. 
