introduced into the collections of the Low Countries in his 
day, but as not having then flowered. 
Native of the Levant. Freguent in Portugal, where, 
altho' completely naturalized, Brotero suspects it is not 
aboriginal. Its favourite spots are rocks, old walls, and 
ruins. Dr. Sibthorpe found it in the island of Cyprus; the 
spanish botanist, Don Josef Guer, in Gallicia, growing on 
the walls which environ the city of.Vigo. 
An arborescent succulent shrub, from three to seven 
feet in height; well characterized by the name of Tree- 
Houseleek, being what we might conceive our own humble. 
mative stemless weed of the same generic name would be- 
come on assuming the dimensions and characters of a tree. 
The caudex or trunk is sometimes as thick as a man's arm, 
proliferous, with upright thick brown branches of a con- 
sistence between succulent and ligneous, round, with a. 
smooth shining bark, scarred by the vestiges of the fallen 
foliage. Leaves succulent thick terminal, disposed in the. 
form of a full-blown rose from 3 to 4 inches over and in- 
clined outwards, sessile, between cuneate and spathulate, 
of a light green colour, surrounded by a tender narrow white 
ciliate edge. Flower-stem from the centre; beset below by ` 
numerous smaller deciduous leaves, beyond these branching 
out into a large handsome thyrse, with flowers of a golden- 
yellow colour; the peduncles of which are divided and sub- 
pubescent. Corolla stellate, pointed. Glands at the base 
of the germens in the form of scales. 
The drawing was made last summer from a plant in the 
greenhouse at Mr, Weeks's nursery, King's Road, Chelsea. 
a An outline of a flower, showing the position of tho scale-shaped mem» 
branous glands, situated at the base of the germens. : 
