THE Botanical Magazine; OR, Flower-Garden Displayed: IN WHICH The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnæus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: TOGETHER WITH THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. A WORK Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, Author of the Flora Londinensis. VOL. XIII. "---- All alone, amid her Garden fair, "From morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve, "She spent her days, her pleasing task to tend "The flowers; to lave them from the water-spring; "To ope the buds with her enamoured breath, "Rank the gay tribes, and rear them in the sun. ---- ---- "Thus plied assiduous her delightful task, "Day after day, till every herb she named "That paints the robe of Spring." Bruce. _LONDON_: Printed by Stephen Couchman, Throgmorton-Street, For W. CURTIS, Nº 3, _St. George's-Crescent_, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. M DCC XCIX. [433] [Illustration: Nº. 433] Azalea Pontica. Yellow Azalea. _Class and Order._ Pentandria Monogynia. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ campanulata. _Stamina_ receptaculo inserta. _Caps._ 2-5 locularis polysperma. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ AZALEA _pontica_ foliis nitidis lanceolatis, utrinque glabris, racemis terminalibus. _Linn. Sp. Pl. App. p. 1669._ _Pall. Fl. Ross. t. 69. p. 51._ CHAMÆRHODENDROS Pontica maxima Mespili folio flore luteo. _Tourn. Cor. Hist. Rei. Herb. 42._ _Act. Paris 1704. p. 348._ _Buxb. Cent. 5. p. 36. t. 69._