ments very short and broad. Corolla large, bell-shaped,
scarlet, spotted inside with innumerable small black specks,
5-lobed, the lobes nearly equal in size, broad, slightly two-
lobed, the margins a little curled, and notched with small
unequal crenatures, the five divisions are cucullate or cupped
at the base, where they are filled with honey. Stamens
10; filaments unequal in length, ascending: anthers purple,
two-lobed; each lobe opening at the point to discharge
the pollen. Ovarium 10-angled, densely clothed with white
tomentum. Style a little longer than the stamens. Stigma
capitate, slightly two-lobed.
Our drawing of this beautiful scarlet variety, was made
from a plant in flower this Spring, in the collection of the
Earl of Liverpool, Coombe-wood ; it is without doubt the
finest species of the genus; but in the neighbourhood of
London, it requires a little protection in Winter, either to
be placed in a Greenhouse or Conservatory, or if planted
in the open border, it will need the protection of a mat or
some other covering in severe weather. In Devonshire,
and the more southern counties, it will succeed well in the
open air all the Winter, thriving best in peat soil, or in very
light sandy loam, and may be increased by seeds or layers,
or by inarching on the R. ponticum, or other strong growing
sort.
Mr. W. Smith, his Lordship’s Gardener, has succeeded
in raising numerous hybrids between the present species
and ponticum, and others between the present and
Azaleapontica; those will be still more valuable, as they
will be quite hardy as well as curious and beautiful; he has
also raised a great quantity of seedling varieties of Azalea
indica, and mules between it and R. dauricum : and also
a quantity of curious hybrids between Cereus speciosus
{phgllanthoides, DC.) and C. speciosissimus, some of
which are nearly of a flowering size.
We agree with Mr. D. Don in uniting Rhodora and
Azalea with Rhododendron, as there are no proper limits
between them, and we have succeeded in muling the whole
of them together, the produce of which will still unite them
closer.
1 One o f the Bractes. 2. Corolla divested o f the limb to show its bell-shape,
and the hollow lobes at the base. 3. Stamen. 4. The short Calyx, enclosing
the woolly Ovarinm, terminated by the Style and slightly 2-lobed capitate
Stigma. 5. Ovarium spread open to show the 10 angles.
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