dropping off. Cyme of Flowers terminal, the lower divisions of
which are in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers numerous,
pale yellow. Peduncles and pedicles clothed with little fascicles
of short hairs, so short as not to be perceptible without the aid
of a lens. Bractes oblong, obtuse, fringed, deciduous. Calyx
turbinate, 5 -cleft, clothed outside with a short tomentum: lacinias
ovate, scarcely acute, keeled on the upper side, reflexed. Petals
5, scale like, inserted between the lacinise of the calyx : lamina
cordately spathulate, concave, denticulate, with a very slender
unguis. Stamens 5, opposite to the petals, and before expansion
enclosed in the lamina, filaments smooth, anthers versatile.
Ovarium pubescent. Style about the length of the stamens,
triquetrous, cleft a little below the stigmas. Stigmas 3,
capitate, slightly fimbriate.
Our drawing of this handsome shrub, was made from a plant
about ten feet high,, in the Conservatory of J. J. Angerstein,
Esq. of Woodlands, near Blackheath, last Spring. We have not
had an opportunity of comparing it with the figure in Ventenat’s
Jardin de la Malmaison, but it agrees precisely with every part
of the description, and we have examined the specimens of
Sieber in Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, and find our plant to be
his P. malifolia, which is quoted by M. Decandolle as belonging
to P. discolor; as is also Sieber’s P. discolor; but that, in our
opinion, is a distinct species; the flowers in Mr. Lambert’s specimens
being more than double the size, and the leaves larger
and blunter, even more different in appearance than from P . intermedia
; there are several nearly related species, all of them
free growing, and handsome flowering plants, and only require
to be sheltered from the severe frost, so. that they make desirable
plants for the Conservatory or Greenhouse, and would
survive against a wall in the open air with the protection of a
mat in severe frost; an equal mixture of light sandy loam and
peat is a proper soil for them ; and young cuttings, planted under
bell-glasses, in sand, will strike root, or they may be raised
froTmh see egdesn.u s was named .by Labillardiere, and is derived from
7rwfia, a lid or cover, and Stppw, a membrane, from the membranaceous
lid of the capsule.
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Style and 3 Stigmas.