Azalea

a genus including about twenty shrubs to the heath tribe, natives of North: and Asia, largely cultivated for their frag flowers. Their leaves are fringed with hairs, a glandular point and are deciduous: the are in umbellate clusters, are glutinous out and have five united sepals, a funnel-shaped of five spreading petals, five long stamens anthers opening by pores, and a five-chambered with many ovules and a single style. of Asia Minor produces the narcotic honey by Xenophon’s army.