and margins a little reflexed: inner ones cordately
ovate, concave, terminated by a long subulate point.
Petals 5, imbricate, obcordate, crumpled, sides undulate
and bent inwards, striate, rose-coloured, with a
yellow spot at the base. Stamens from 130 to 140,
rather more than half the length of the style : filaments
slender, smooth, bright yellow : pollen orange-coloured.
Gertnen 5-angled, the angles clothed with white silky
hairs, and smooth between. Style nearly double the
length of the stamens, smooth, flexuose. Stigma capitate,
slightly 5-furrowed, papillose.
This fine species is a native of TenerifFe, and is therefore
rather too tender to endure our severest winters in
the open ground without protection; but it succeeds
well if protected by a common frame or pit in severe
frost; it will also thrive very well against a wall, so as
to be covered with a mat in frosty weather, and a little
dry litter placed about its roots ; it is also a very proper
plant for a Greenhouse or Conservatory, where its
splendid flowers are seen to great advantage; it succeeds
well in any light rich soil, or a mixture of light
turfy loam, peat, and sand, will suit it very w e ll;
young cuttings strike root freely, taken off at a joint,
and planted under hand-glasses in autumn; it also
ripens plenty of seeds, by which it is readily increased,
Our drawing was taken from a plant, received from
the Nursery of Messrs. Malcolm and Gray, at Kensington,
last summer.