twice the length of the sepals. Stamens about 200 ;
pollen orange coloured. Germen sericeous. Style
smooth, flexuose, nearly double the length of the
stamens. Stigma capitate, tuberculate.
This fine species is a native of the Canary Islands,
and was introduced to this country about the year
1815, by the late Professor Christian Smith; by him
the seeds were given to Mr. William Anderson,
Curator of the Apothecaries Company’s Garden at
Chelsea; and from a strong young plant raised from
a cutting, our drawing was taken last summer. In
M. Decandolle’s Prodromus it is described with solitary
one-flowered peduncles; this was the case with all the
old stunted plants at Mr. Anderson’s, but the young
healthy plants all produced their flowers in a corym-
bus, as represented in our figure; it is also probable
that the plants on the rocky mountains of the Canaries
are also stunted, and produce single flowered peduncles.
The present species is not sufficiently hardy to bear
our winter in the open air, except it be well covered
up with mats in severe weather, and dry litter laid
about its roots, as recommended for the former
species; it is, however, a hardy greenhouse plant, and
will succeed in a common frame, covered up with
mats in severe weather, but openly exposed when the
weather is fine and mild; plants preserved in frames
through the winter, and turnfed out in the borders of
shrubberies in spring, will answer best. It succeeds
well in a light sandy soil, or a mixture of sandy loam
and peat suits it very well; it may be propagated by
cuttings planted under hand-glasses, or by seeds, which
sometimes ripen.