acute, the sides more or less turned back, much fringed:
inner ones narrower, ovate, concave, taper-pointed, the
margins scariose or membranaceous. Flowers rather
cupped, of a paper white. Petals 5, obcordate, very
much imbricate, more or less crumpled, with a light
yellow spot at the base. Stamens about 80, spreading,
the inner ones longest: filaments smooth, slender, of
a pale yellow: pollen bright yellow, inclining to orange.
Germen densely clothed with close pressed hairs. Style
very short. Stigma large, capitate, slightly 5-lobed,
tuberculate.
Our drawing and description of this fine species
were taken from plants kindly communicated to us from
the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne,
at Fulham, in June last; we have no doubt but it is the
C. laxus of M. Decandolle, although it belongs to the
same division of the section as C. populifolius and lon-
gifolius, bearing small deciduous bractes at the base of
the peduncles ; we believe the present plant, from the
description, to be what is meant by Professor Spren-
gel, for C. longifolius, in his Systema Vegetabilium,
but very different from Decandolle’s C. longifolius, of
which we also have a drawing in our possession : the
present plant is quite hardy, or only requires slight
protection in very severe frost, thriving well in the
common garden soil, but prefers rather a dryish situation
; it may also be grown in pots, which can be protected
in a frame in severe frost, and may then be
planted into the borders in spring ; if grown in pots,
the best soil is an equal mixture of light turfy loam,
and peat. Young cuttings taken off at a joint, and
planted under hand-glasses in autumn, will strike root
readily; it may also be increased by layers or seeds.