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ous dark spots on the inside at the b a ck : tube bluntly 5-
angular, deeply 5-channelled : segments of the limb broad,
rounded, much undulate and crumpled, spreading. Stamens
10, unequal in length, scarcely so long as the corolla : filaments
unequal in length, ascending, thickest at the base, and
tapering upwards, densely clothed with spreading hairs,
from the base to about half way up. Ovarium 10-angular!
in our specimen, clothed with a ferruginous tomentum. Style
flesh-coloured, smooth and glossy, bent downwards like a
bow, the point ascending, about the length of the stamens.
Stigma purple, capitate, warted, glutinous.
""This magnificent plant is of hybrid origin, and was first
raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith, of Coombe Wood, near
Wimbledon, Surrey, in compliment to whom we have named
i t : its parents were R. pontieum that had been fertilized
with the pollen of R. arbdreum, and is one of the hybrids
that we have before mentioned in some of our former Numbers.
Mr. Smith at the same time raised others from R.
arbdreum, fertilized by R. pontieum, and some that were fertilized
by Azalea pbntiea, but none of these have yet flowered
; the present specimen flowered at the Nursery of Mr.
Colvill, in the King’s-road, Chelsea, where our drawing was
made ; the habit of the plant, form of the leaves and flowers,
and the colour of the flowers, partake as near as possible of
an equal share of both species, but the ovarium is 10-angular,
and clothed with ferruginous down, like R. arbdreum I
there cannot be the least doubt but it will prove quite hardy,
as the female parent rvas R. pontieum; like the other plants
belonging to this genus, it requires to be planted in peat soil,
and may be increased by layers; or young cuttings, with
their wood nearly ripened, taken oif at a joint, and planted
in pots of sand, placed in a frame, or under a hand-glass in
a little bottom heat, will not be difficult to root.
For the explanation of the generic name, see folio 10
of the second series.
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1. Bracte. 2. Calyx, showing the unequal teeth,
terminated by the Style and simple capitate Stigma.
3. The 10 Stamens. 4, Ovarium
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