slender point, strongly nerved with purple nerves:
inner ones broadest and more concave, membranaceous
at the edges. Petals 5, broadly obovate, imbricate, crumpled,
slightly crenulate, of a reddish purple, pale yellow
at the base. Stamens numerous : filaments bright yellow,
smooth, unequal in length: pollen golden yellow, (mermen
roundish, densely clothed with close-pressed white
hairs. Style smooth, slender at the base and thickening
upwards, about the length of the stamens. Stigma 5-
furrowed, capitate. Capsule roundly oval, densely clothed
with close-pressed silky hairs.
We are now convinced that the present plant is C.
undulatus, having received a plant of it from the Chevalier
Soulange Bodin,under that name; it also agrees very
well with the description in Decandolle’s Prodromus;
and is readily distinguished from C. creticus, with which
we had confused it, by its long style, which in that species
is very short, and quite hid by its large stigma.
Our drawing was made from a plant, at the Nursery
of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith ; we also received a plant
of it from Mr. Miller, of the Bristol Nursery, which we
planted in our garden in a northen aspect, with many
other rather tender sorts ; they stood there the whole of
last Winter without the least protection, and not one of
them were hurt : whereas several others that were planted
in a southern aspect, were all killed, or so severely hurt,
that they were not worth keeping.
The leaves of the present species are much more undulate
in Autumn andWinter, than in the Summer when
in bloom ; at that time they are very slightly undulate.
It is a native of the Levant; as numerous plants of it
were raised at Messrs. Young’s Nursery, at Epsom, from
seeds received from thence ; it is most probably also^ a
native of the South of Europe. Any light sandy .soil will
suit it very well; and young cuttings, planted under
hand-glasses, in August or September, will strike root
readily.