broadly wedge shaped, very much imbricate, of a thin
texture and much crumpled, of a pure white with a
faint yellow mark at the base of each. Stamens numerous,
about 150, spreading: filaments smooth, pale
yellowr, of various lengths ; pollen yellow. Germen to-
mentose. Style very short, quite hid by the large capitate,
slightly 5-lobed, papillose Stigma.
Our drawing of this plant was taken from one growing
in the open border, at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at
Hammersmith, in July last; it appears to us to be
quite new and nondescript, differing from all others
with which we are acquainted by its smooth glossy
sepals, and also in the shape of its leaves, approaching
the nearest to C. longifolius, but still very different
from that species; the plants were very bushy, and the
shoots were terminated by large cymes of white flowers,
which open in succession, and make a fine contrast
with the dark green leaves with which the plants are
clothed. It succeeds well in the common garden soil,
in rather a dry situation, and would thrive well on
rock-work; or if grown in pots, a mixture of sandy
loam and peat would suit it very well. Cuttings planted
under hand-glasses in Autumn, strike root freely.