lose. Capsule large, pubescent, three-celled, and many
seeded.
The present handsome and very distinct species is a
native of Barbary, Arabia, Greece, and the South of
Europe, and is therefore rather tender, requiring the
protection of a frame or Greenhouse in Winter; or if
grown by the side of a wall, or in rock-work, it will
need some sort of covering in severe frosty weather ;
but it is much better to preserve some plants of it in
pots in the Greenhouse or frames through the Winter,
keeping them in an airy situation, and exposing them
as much as possible in mild weather, that they may not
be drawn up weak; they can then be turned out in the
Spring, and be planted in rock-work, or in a warm border,
where they will produce their lively flowers in succession
for a considerable time; young cuttings, planted
under hand-glasses in Spring or Summer, will strike
root readily.
