By permission and with the approbation of Mr. Anthony Hove, the following extracts from his journal are here inserted. "June 9, 1796, found a few of this species of _Azalea_ on the river Dnieper in swampy ground, four feet high, beginning to blow, called here the stupifying shrub, and considered by some as highly efficacious in curing the venereal disease. "June 20, found this species on the river Dniester, on the estate of Count Stanislaus Sczesny Potocki, about sixteen English miles from the town of Mohilow, in peat earth, from four to twenty feet high; regarded by the common people as intoxicating, and used in the cure of various diseases. "July 4, near Oczakow, found thousands of these plants fully blown, in a marsh, every spring-tide overflown by the sea; found there also, a Tartarian farmer, who lived entirely by the profits arising from the honey which the bees extracted from the flowers of this plant, sold to Constantinople and other parts of Turkey for medicinal uses. "July 15, arrived at Trebizond, found a valley about ten English miles from the sea covered with these plants." On cultivation, Mr. Hove relates that he found the _Azalea's_ from Trebizond much more tender than those from the borders of the Dnieper and the Dniester, and was therefore inclined to regard them as strong varieties if not distinct species. The leaves, when fully expanded, are in size and figure like those on the plate, hairy on both sides, and terminating in a very remarkable blunt mucro or point, which has not been noticed either by those who have described or figured the plant as it deserves, for it appears to form a very strong character. [434] [Illustration: Nº. 434] Oxybaphus Viscosus. Viscid Umbrella-Wort. _Class and Order._ Triandria Monogynia. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-fidus campanulatus. _Cor._ infundibuliformis. _Nux_ 5-gona 1-sperma calyce explanato persistenti circumdata. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ OXYBAPHUS _viscosus_. _L'Herit. Monograph._ MIRABILIS _viscosa_ floribus racemosis; foliis cordatis orbiculato-acutis tomentosis. _Cav. Icon. I. n. 17. t. 19._ The present is one of those plants which is entitled to our admiration, for its curious and singular structure, rather than for any extraordinary figure it makes in a collection; not that its flowers are without a certain share of beauty.