flated, very hairy: two outer sepals very small, spreading,
and clothed with spreading hairs: inner ones
broadly ovate, three to five-nerved, glossy, the nerves
pale red, hollow on the inside. Petals 5, imbricate,
rounded, pale yellow or straw-colour, spreading flat
when expanded. Stamens from 8 to 10, surrounding the
Style: filaments yellow: pollen orange-coloured. Ger-
men hairy. Style a little twisted at the base, then becoming
erect. Stigma capitate, papillose.
This pretty little species is a native of Barbary,
Egypt, and the Levant, and is therefore rather tender,
requiring to be kept in frames, or in the Greenhouse,
in severe frosty weather; or if planted in rock-work, a
common gai’den-pot placed close over it, with the hole
at the bottom close stopped, will protect it very w e ll;
we find this method succeed with many plants that are
tender, such as the herbaceous plants from Mexico,
Chili, Peru, The Cape of Good Hope, New South
Wales, the Levant, and the Canary Islands; and numerous
rather tender plants that would otherwise be
killed, are preserved in good health, by that means;
the best soil for the present species is a mixture of light
sandy loam and peat; and some plants of it should be
grown in pots, and preserved in frames or in the Greenhouse,
in Winter, or in the window of a light room;
young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses in Summer,
in a shady situation, will root freely; it also produces
an abundance of seeds, by which young plants may be
readily raised.
Our drawing was made from a plant in the Garden
belonging to the Apothecaries’ Company, at Chelsea,
where it was raised from seeds by Mr. W. Anderson.