at the points, very much veined underneath, with a light
bright purple spot in the centre of each. Filaments 10,
united at the base, 7 bearing anthers. Style pale purple,
hairy about half its length, the upper mas 5, part smooth. Stig
small, dark purple, the points reflexed.
The present handsome plant is of hybrid origin, and we
suppose one of its parents to have been P .pulcherrimum,
but what the other was is not easy to be ascertained; it
was first raised from seed by Mr. W. Smith, in the collection
of the Earl of Liverpool; and it is a plant deserving
a place in every collection; thriving well in any rich light
soil, and producing abundance of flowers all the Summer,
and till late in Autumn. Young cuttings, planted in pots,
and placed in a sheltered situation, will soon strike root.
Mr. Smith has also been very successful in raising a
great quantity of plants from the seeds of Azalea indica,
amongst which we have no doubt there will be many splendid
varieties, as many of them appear at present very different
from each other; and, from their size, we should expect
some of them will bloom next Summer; he has also a
dgoredaetn mdraonny pfoinnet iycouumng, plants raised from the seed of Rho
that had been fertilized by the pollen
of R. arboreum; those will be very valuable, as there
can be no doubt but they will be quite hardy.