corolla. Filaments slender, yellow, hairy below. Anthers
orange, opening by two terminal foramina. Ovarium silky,
5-celled. Style filiform, glabrous. Stigma capitate, annulate,
with a convex, slightly 5-lobed disk.
Our drawing of this very showy variety was taken at Mr.
Knight’s Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, in June last. The
plant had been originally imported from Holland, the gardens
of which have been long famed for the extent and beauty of
their collections of varieties of this genus. There is none
more deserving of cultivation than the present, which may
be regarded as the handsomest of the yellow-flowered kinds.
Its flowers are of a rich yellow, and are produced in large
compact clusters.
A mixture of sandy peat and loam is the soil most suitable
for these plants, and the best mode of increasing them is
by layers.
The generic name will be found explained at fol. 10.
D . Don.
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