lengths, tinged with purple. Petals 5, not at all imbricate,
but distinctly spreading, wedge shaped, very narrow
at the base, more or less crumpled or undulate, of
a bright yellow, with a smallish dark purple spot on
each, a little above the base. Stamens from 80 to 100:
filaments smooth, unequal in length, of a pale yellow :
anthers yellow, with a purple spot at the point: pollen
granular, orange-coloured. Style hid by the large capitate
granular Stigma.
Our drawing of this handsome species, was made from
a fine plant, in the garden belonging to the Apothecaries’
Company, at Chelsea, the only collection in which
we have seen it, and where it was grown in a pot, and
preserved through the Winter in the Greenhouse; it is
one of the latest flowering species, and is nearly related
to H. alyssoides and H. rugosum, but in our opinion is
sufficiently distinct from both, being readily distinguished
from all its congeners, except H. ocymoides, by its
small leaves, and from that by their different form, and
the habit of the plant: like the other plants of the section
to which it belongs, it is rather tender, requiring a
little protection in severe frosty weather, either to be
planted near a wall or fence, and to be covered with a
mat, or to be grown in pots, and to be protected under
a frame, or in the Greenhouse; a mixture of light sandy
loam and peat is the best soil for it; and young cuttings,
planted under hand-glasses in Autumn, soon
strike root.