many-veined or lineate underneath, green on both sides,
rough and hairy but not tomentose, longer than the peduncles,
except when drawn up within doors. Flower-
stems terminal or axillary, thickly clothed with unequal
soft spreading weak hairs. Peduncles in a sort of panicle,
terminal or axillary, 1 or 2-flowered, oftentimes in
a sort of umbel, shorter than the leaf, at their base of a
brownish purple colour, thickly clothed with soft
spreading hairs that are purple at the base, the leaves
at the base of the peduncles are fringed with purple
hairs. Calyx of 3 sepals, densely clothed with rigid
purple bristle-like hairs: sepals broadly ovate, acute,
concave, with membranaceous edges, a little keeled at
the back. Petals 5, broadly obovate, finely crenulate,
very much overlapping each other, of a golden yellow,
each with a large dark spot near the base, which branches
a little. Stamens from 40 to 45, spreading: filaments
smooth, unequal in length, of a bright yellow,
with purple points : anthers dark purple before bursting
: pollen orange-coloured. Gennen densely tomentose.
Style very short. Stigma large, capitate, pustu-
lose.
For the opportunity of giving a figure of this handsome
plant, we are obliged to Mr. J. Miller, of the
Bristol Nursery, from whom we received it, and it is
readily distinguished from all others of the section to
which it belongs, by the stiff bristle-like purple hairs
on the calyx ; as far as we can judge by the description,
we believe it to be the H. rugosum of Dunal, in
Decandolle’s Prodromus, which is a native of Portugal.
It succeeds well in a light soil, consisting of an equal
portion of sandy loam and peat, and if planted by the
side of a wall in a southern aspect, and covered with a
mat in severe frost, it will succeed very well, or it may
be grown in pots, and kept under glass in frames, or
in the Greenhouse in frosty weather, but should be exposed
to the air as much as possible when the weather
is mild; the time of flowering is from June to August.
Cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, iu August or
September, strike root readily.